Commuting - Big Loads?

What is the largest/most ungainly load you have carried on your bike? I managed to haul a trombone back and forth to school for a couple of years. Cars tend to give you a wider berth when you have one of those things sticking off your rack.

My two favorite Big Loads:

Halloween '97 - I found the perfect 8 foot pole for my grim reaper costume, and transported it from Market Street in San Francisco to my neighborhood in the Lower Haight. I narrowly managed to avoid skewering anybody

Halloween '98 - I rode 6 miles, from SW Philly to Center City, in the middle of the nigh, with 5 large pumpkins in my backpack. It was painful and ludicrous at the time, and I have no justification for the act now.


BK

I haul a Burley trailer and have managed to get home with the trailer filled the the top, with several items bungy corded to the outside. Kind of a Beverly Hill Billy look.

Just my 220 pound carcass.

One three-year old daughter, three beach chairs, two beach umbrellas, two cameras, and bag of towels/lotion/books, etc. The umbrellas and chairs were bungeed to the top of the trailer.

Paul

A 6' section of 15" diameter Sonotube.

Building a deck, Bikerider?

An entire exhaust system for a Isuzu Amigo, pipes, muffler, clamps and gaskets. Carried it for 21 miles of hilly roadway, stuck the pipes in the panniers with the clamps and gaskete and tied the muffler accross the top to lock it all together with bailing twine. Average speed for the trip 13.6 mph. Things like this give people something to talk about.

Carried 2 road bike wheels (front and rear) and a road bike frame on the rack of my touring bike. I wrapped the frame in newspaper, then bungee-corded the whole thing on.