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looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:33 am
by ttf_timothy42b
There was a piece of playground equipment at the Kitzingen Spielplatz.
I've been trying to find an image of it.
Basically it was a merry-go-roud, but shaped like a giant cup on a stalk, tilted so one side was horizontal.
Kids would run in place making it spin, and throwing the other kids off. My kids used it but only when no other kids were around.
Maybe if I knew the name I could find it.
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:22 am
by ttf_JohnL
You mean something like a giant hamster wheel?
Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9wuxh4_zl0
I've seen larger ones. Just google "human hamster wheel" and see what comes up.
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 12:17 pm
by ttf_timothy42b
The principle is similar but the one I'm thinking of rotates around a vertical axis.
In the US it would have been a lawyer's full employment guarantee, but in Germany you were expected to use enough common sense not to do stupid.
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:48 pm
by ttf_oslide
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:52 am
by ttf_timothy42b
I couldn't get to that one on this network.
Try this:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155407562609650&set=p.10155407562609650&type=3
I'm not facebook literate enough to know if that's a private page or a way to find the photo.
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 5:31 am
by ttf_oslide
This link requires to be a Facebook member which I'm not.
I have sent you a picture by email, hoping that this is what you are looking for.
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 5:42 am
by ttf_timothy42b
Yes, that's it!
And what an interesting catalog.
So, Drehscheibe is the name, turntable in English.
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:24 am
by ttf_oslide
Well, "Drehscheibe" is a rather generic term, a round plate that turns - could also apply to a potter's wheel, or the big thing used to make cars or locomotives change direction in narrow spaces.
When you install such a turntable in your garden, make sure the ground next to it is very soft
looking for photo: German merrygoround
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:24 am
by ttf_oslide
Well, "Drehscheibe" is a rather generic term, a round plate that turns - could also apply to a potter's wheel, or the big thing used to make cars or locomotives change direction in narrow spaces.
When you install such a turntable in your garden, make sure the ground next to it is very soft