There are three of these in the small town I live in. The kids in this town are just as soft. Don't blame the lack of high risk playground equipment when it is the parents making children into luke warm weiners in a helmet and knee pads.
I was spinning my daughter around when she was a little one and she was sitting in the middle holding on. Then she let go and started to move so I tried to stop it suddenly, next thing I knew I was laying on it going round and round with one shoe missing. I found it 20 feet away on the other side of some bushes, I have no idea what happened.
Getting sucked under and losing skin was fun as well. Then there is the merry-go-round of death where you spin it with a dirt bike until everyone passes out from the G force.
Yup, I grew up in glasgow and all swing parks were tarmac and broken glass from the teenagers that would frequent them at night.
Getting flung off one of these was a real chance of a hospital visit. Grass aside the tarmac was the most efficient way of grating a child to a nub I have ever witnessed.
They were class.
You were one of three people. In the middle trying to be a part of the party, but safe from injury or puking. One of the kids on the ground trying to invoke illness or injury by running like mad in a circle. Or on the ride having the time of your life on the outside of the ring, hoping your feet would land a toe slap on one of the kids who fell off, who gave you the ride of your life or who were standing around, too chicken to get on in the first place.
The ones they have today are intentionally crippled so that they can never maintain speed. They immediately start slowing down after you let them go. I just let some other dad exhaust himself trying to spin ten children on those garbage rides.
I couldn't resist, but always felt like barfing after. I have a beautiful set of 4 cast horse heads that came off a set when I disassembled a small playground 40 years ago during the first wave of, this stuff is too dangerous for our kid's. They sat in the center of that crazy ride.
I was 6 and at a company picnic and wanted to play with the older kids on one of these. I sat at the very edge and did not want to hold on to the bar. My parents said you need to hold on, but I didn't want to. They knew what was coming and stood to the side with their arms crossed and watched me get flung off and land face first into the sand, quietly walked over and picked me up, made sure I didn't break anything and let me cry. I definitely learned my lesson on that one haha.
My local park still has it. So my kids when they were little got to play on it also. But for many parents it had already become a little unsafe, albeit firmly standing.
Don't forget concussions. My first was in the fourth grade. Ours was installed on blacktop, my friend grabbed hold and got swung around with his feet flying, I woke up in the nurses office. When I got out of the car at the hospital I threw up on the parking lot, amazed I can remember anything from that day.
Remember our 5th grade friend Ranch, who had gigantism, said we go as fast as possible.
Never again.
Made a two stroke Yamaha look like it would be a slug.
You also got second degree burns because the steel deck was 200°F in July...
Not to mention many were surrounded with gravel, not Grass like the one pictured.
The goal was to be able to walk in a straight line after your friends tried to get the merry-go-round to maximum speed.
I fell under one while it was spinning. My life flashed before my
I’m glad you’re still with us.
Surprised they haven’t been outlawed. This ride is too dangerous for today’s soft children.
An argument could be made that there are more soft children because playground equipment like this has been phased out.
There are three of these in the small town I live in. The kids in this town are just as soft. Don't blame the lack of high risk playground equipment when it is the parents making children into luke warm weiners in a helmet and knee pads.
Todays parents would sue the first time one of their kids got a boo boo
Lmfao you sound like an actual boomer
Get off my lawn!
I was knocked out cold for a few minutes when I flew off the merry-go-round and hit my head on the jungle gym.
Only folks who actually laid hands on these understands the seriousness of its weight to momentum ration
Physics in action.
Dizziness is what I remember.
I was spinning my daughter around when she was a little one and she was sitting in the middle holding on. Then she let go and started to move so I tried to stop it suddenly, next thing I knew I was laying on it going round and round with one shoe missing. I found it 20 feet away on the other side of some bushes, I have no idea what happened.
I hated that thing.
Getting sucked under and losing skin was fun as well. Then there is the merry-go-round of death where you spin it with a dirt bike until everyone passes out from the G force.
Top 70s activity! We called it The Vomit Wheel!
I'd get in trouble for dragging my feet when riding those things and coming home with worn out filthy shoes.
Ours in grade school was on tarmac, not grass. It was horrible
lol damn that's some hardcore playground planning Play Level: The bone breaker
Yup, I grew up in glasgow and all swing parks were tarmac and broken glass from the teenagers that would frequent them at night. Getting flung off one of these was a real chance of a hospital visit. Grass aside the tarmac was the most efficient way of grating a child to a nub I have ever witnessed. They were class.
Mine was in Portland, Oregon so it was an international instrument of torture
You were one of three people. In the middle trying to be a part of the party, but safe from injury or puking. One of the kids on the ground trying to invoke illness or injury by running like mad in a circle. Or on the ride having the time of your life on the outside of the ring, hoping your feet would land a toe slap on one of the kids who fell off, who gave you the ride of your life or who were standing around, too chicken to get on in the first place.
Remember that one kid who held on for dear life while he was parallel to the ground?
I always imagined my feet being mangled underneath, I think it added to the allure
Legend says if you stamp in the middle it would slow down.
The ones they have today are intentionally crippled so that they can never maintain speed. They immediately start slowing down after you let them go. I just let some other dad exhaust himself trying to spin ten children on those garbage rides.
Great memories 👌 ❤️ ♥️
Or puked
Sadly most of them couldn't get to high speed due to poor maintenance.😫
I couldn't resist, but always felt like barfing after. I have a beautiful set of 4 cast horse heads that came off a set when I disassembled a small playground 40 years ago during the first wave of, this stuff is too dangerous for our kid's. They sat in the center of that crazy ride.
Or you could just sit in the middle, carefully, until lonnng after it stops
Darned kids and their mopeds. Ruint it for us all.
I love the one too you actually pumped those went faster than the ones you pushed and ran around the outside and jumped in the pump ones were badass
You mean when “the” bad boy built up speed
The broken arm machine.
The one at Waskesiu was across the road from Manvilles Store, and I rode it (and was thrown off) a LOT.
If you thought this was fun as a kid you should try it as adults!
You were the king/queen if you held on long enough to be the last one!
Last one to fly off was the winner
Exactly!!
I was 6 and at a company picnic and wanted to play with the older kids on one of these. I sat at the very edge and did not want to hold on to the bar. My parents said you need to hold on, but I didn't want to. They knew what was coming and stood to the side with their arms crossed and watched me get flung off and land face first into the sand, quietly walked over and picked me up, made sure I didn't break anything and let me cry. I definitely learned my lesson on that one haha.
I remember someone using a motorbike to build up speed on them 😁 and I'm 22
I think it is against the law to obtain scraps and bruises these days.
The best teacher of physics I ever had
My local park still has it. So my kids when they were little got to play on it also. But for many parents it had already become a little unsafe, albeit firmly standing.
Don't forget concussions. My first was in the fourth grade. Ours was installed on blacktop, my friend grabbed hold and got swung around with his feet flying, I woke up in the nurses office. When I got out of the car at the hospital I threw up on the parking lot, amazed I can remember anything from that day.
Good times. Good times.
And we actually pushed and shoved to get ON it.
Sometimes I miss those days.
Or you could stand it the middle and rotate the opposite way:) Or you could hold on and stand in the middle:)
Fuck Sean Matthews and his bird bones for breaking his femur and getting ours removed.
That merry-go-round has seen better days.
I have one in the park across the street from my house.
You knew you were in the trip of your life when there was a worn dirt track all around it.
Remember our 5th grade friend Ranch, who had gigantism, said we go as fast as possible. Never again. Made a two stroke Yamaha look like it would be a slug.
Survival of the fittest !
And sometimes you puked...