Wade started his ball back in 1975, when he worked at a downtown bank. He noticed a security guard's rubber-band ball and asked how it was made. Figure it out yourself, the guard replied rudely.

That thing that's the size of a Smart car? It's Joel Waul's rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing ...

TV show that would change his life. In it, a one-ton rubber band ball was dropped from a plane into the Mojave Desert to see if it would bounce. It exploded instead, but Joel was hooked ...

Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. "The rubber bands ... sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton, whose 4,594-pound rubber ...

rubber bands, cork or compressed air — today's little white spheroid has had an interesting evolution. Back in the mist of history, the game of golf was played with balls carved from hardwood.

"It's like, 'What the heck, man? What did I do?' " The world's largest rubber band ball stands six feet, seven inches tall and has a circumference of 26 feet. It took five years to build, weighs more ...

That ball is a total waste of an incredibly useful household item, and we're about to show you the myriad ways you can put rubber bands to use around the Posted 2014-01-19T12:45:01+00:00 - Updated ...

That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes ...

Here’s what happens when you take a handsaw to a large rubber band ball. Not to spoil anything, but, when you think of all the energy that’s stored in those stretchy loops of elastic ...