World's biggest rubber band ball

A US man has made the world's biggest rubber band ball.

A rubber band ball, created using more than 175,000 rubber bands, is pushed to a scale for a weigh-in in Chicago before its certification by Guinness as the world's largest /Empics

Steve Milton, of Eugene, Oregon, created the ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands.

Guinness accepted it as a record breaker after it tipped the scales at 4,594lbs at a Chicago weigh-in.

The mammoth ball, which has a circumference of 19ft, broke the former record set by John Bain, whose ball weighed in at 3,120lbs.

The 26-year-old started his ball in November 2005 with just a few small rubberbands.

"It was just a great project with me and my kids," said Mr Milton, who worked on the ball with his six-year-old son, Bryce Milton, and his fiancee's son, Austin Johnson, 7.

"We did a little bit of research on how big rubber band balls are, and realised there was one out there that was 3,120 pounds and we knew we could do it."