Casey, Illinois, is home to eight giant inventions that hold the record for largest in their category.

You can find the world's largest rocking chair, mailbox, knitting needles, crochet hook, wind chime, pitchfork, golf tee and clogs in the town.

 

The town is over 100 miles away from nearest big city Indianapolis but is making a name for itself with its giant everyday objects that are clustered around their downtown area.

Home to just 3,000 people, it is local businessman Jim Bolin who is behind all eight Guinness World Records.

Bolin created and designed the objects in an effort to attract tourists to his hometown after the recession.   

It started with the world's largest standing wind chime at 54ft tall finished in 2011. 

Next was the world's largest golf tee. The three-ton, 30ft structure was erected at the Casey Country Club.

Then came the world's largest knitting needles and crochet hook, which in order to set the world record has to have knit and crochet a tension square ten stitches by ten rows. 

The knitting needles weigh 51lbs together and measure almost 14ft each. The crochet hook is 9lbs, so creating the 10-by-10-square was no easy feat.
One of the most impressive structures is the big rocking chair.
Weighing more than 46,200lbs and standing 57ft high, it proved to be the most difficult item to create. 
It took two years to complete and workers had to make sure it could rock.

The Big Pitchfork was an idea from the local community to compliment the farm atmosphere at a local restaurant and symbolize Casey's agricultural industry.  

It's more than 61ft long – 12 times longer than a conventional pitchfork, or about the same length as a bowling alley – and weighs 1,940lbs.  

Perhaps the jewel in the crown is the Big Mailbox that was created in October 2015. 

Standing at more than 32ft, the giant mailbox, made from mostly recycled materials, has a built-in stairway inside the post stand so visitors can can climb into the box. 

It's designed to accept mail, which, when deposited, raises the red flag. 

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Bolin said he intends to use the space to establish a museum of mail history.  

'Japan held the previous record at 2300 cubic feet of mail, and the United States, or Casey, Illinois holds the record now at 5,800 cubic feet of mail,' Bolin told ABC27

'You can actually mail from this mailbox, and it’ll receive mail also. You can climb up stairs, there’s stairs in the back, and you climb up into the mailbox and you can walk around up there.'

Finally, Casey's newest entry into the record books is a giant pair of Dutch clogs that stand at 4ft 11in. 

Bolin and two others carved the clogs, made from 61 layers of pine, by chainsaw then sanded and lacquered them.  

Honorable mentions go to the Big Coin, Big Pencil, Giant Birdcage and the Big Ruler, who all missed out on their world records but are still fascinating sights to behold in the small town of Casey.

Bolin told Guinness World Records: 'The world records is just changed our town tremendously.'

All of Casey's achievements will be noted in the 2017 Guinness World Book of Records.