Travel Bug Dog Tag HEAVY TRUCK

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Owner:
Iowa Tom Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, July 3, 2006
Origin:
Iowa, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of hancaban.

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Current Goal

The mission of this little truck is to survive as many households as possible! I hope his mechanism lasts and he doesn’t get crushed when being placed back into his tubular garage. See the picture of how he gets pushed back home.

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When I was a kid I played with trucks in the dirt where new hosing was being built near us. I really like toy trucks even to this day. When I worked for the City Forestry Department I drove a dump truck and operated what we called a “grapple loader.” Using the mighty hydraulics I lifted heavy tree trunks and the like and placed them in the back of the loader. Once I picked up a BIG rock and dropped it onto another one to see what would happen. That made the characteristic powerful rock colliding with a rock sound!

When I took tree brush down to the local dumping ground for that stuff here in my town I discovered that that same grapple loader! It’s been 28 years since I operated it. I’d recognize it anywhere.

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Tracking History (6356.3mi) View Map

Dropped Off 12/25/2010 PhilsFlyers placed it in Surf Rock California - 2,330.21 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/26/2010 PhilsFlyers retrieved it from Knarls Barkley Pennsylvania   Visit Log

Found this little fella on my first geo caching trip in Knarls Barkley. I have been holding onto him to bring him with me to see my brother in San Diego, California for Christmas. I will be taking him to see the cliffs tomorrow ;)
Dropped Off 10/2/2010 pmolan placed it in Knarls Barkley Pennsylvania - 66.99 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/30/2010 pmolan retrieved it from The River. New Jersey   Visit Log

Back in action after a 19 month rest. That's what happens when a tb ends up in a 5 star cache. I bet you thought it floated away :)

This entry was edited by pmolan on Monday, 30 August 2010 at 15:00:54.

This entry was edited by pmolan on Monday, 30 August 2010 at 15:04:09.
Dropped Off 1/17/2009 escapee06 placed it in The River. New Jersey - 10.36 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/2/2009 escapee06 retrieved it from Bits & Pieces in the SMR (A Halloween Cache - #2) New Jersey   Visit Log

Neat garage for your truck , will move along .
Dropped Off 11/9/2008 trowel32 placed it in Bits & Pieces in the SMR (A Halloween Cache - #2) New Jersey - 17.6 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/7/2008 trowel32 retrieved it from The Key to Friendship New Jersey   Visit Log

Nice TB - I like the "garage"...very cool!
Dropped Off 10/18/2008 jc_hook placed it in The Key to Friendship New Jersey - 7.76 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/4/2008 jc_hook retrieved it from By Boat or By Boot: Monksville New Jersey   Visit Log

"Wow! What's this? A TB Garage?" Cool container. I see the care you put into making it for Heavy Truck. No projects at home. (Can ya believe it?) I will gladly move along soon.
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