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Giant Wheel Slough 1

Butler Amusements' Chance Manufacturing Giant Wheel getting sloughed at Nevada County Fair, video #1 of 2. (Sloughing is the carney word for tearing down the show, through I am not sure if that is correctly spelled as I was never shown it on paper, only taught by word of mouth. Pronounced slauw). When I was young, I used to be amazed at how carnival rides went from being a trailer into a ride, and back again Sunday night after the fair was over. When I was 19, this intrigue led me to join Johnston's Amusements and go on the road, which got me out of the hum-drum town I was stuck in and out seeing and doing things, and actually working a job where I was accepted and eventually valued for my work. Some people scoff at that notion, however, Ken Johnston and his family treated me like family and Kenny taught me valuable life lessons like work ethic, which is lost on the youth of today apparently. We worked long hours for low pay, and didn't complain. (except about the low pay, but that is universal no matter how much you make!) I learned management as I eventually became a ride superintendent working for Foley and Burke Shows, (Loyd J Hilligoss) and eventually, how to be an electrician with Temporary Power, (same thing we use for construction sites, and more importantly for me, event production, I.E. sound, lights, and vendor power). My first, (and only ride) became the Ferris Wheel, in this case the first trailer mounted version of what used to be a ground mounted ride, as they all were early on. Ely Bridge Manufacturing made the Hy-5, which you can see an example of at 5:33 in it's final stage of Slough across the midway, though this one is a later model they labeled "Rim Drive", having motors and rubber tire drive wheels on a 6" wide rim to operate the wheel. Mine was the prototype for the first edition, which had a cable drive that had "ears" around the rim at every spoke on the right side. We had to pull a huge cable around the whole wheel to engage the ears, and through a large bull wheel and tensioner wheel to drive the wheel. What a major pain in the ass, as you had to fight the cable twisting all around and untangle the thing, no matter how carefully you coiled it on the floor when you last sloughed it. Top that with it being a greasy mess that covered you in pitch black grease no matter how hard you tried to limit that, and of course, that would then permeate the rest of the process of setting up and you would then have to wash every inch of the ride to get it off, it seemed. That became obsolete with this rim drive modification, which removed that whole process of dealing with the cable. The Giant Wheel is an amazing engineering feat as it takes 3 trailers side by side, that attach and pull each other together with an ingenious landing leg design that allows the 80,000 lb trailers to slide on the legs' trusses. Then it all aligns properly and towers pin together through the axel, and raise up and the whole thing goes together from parts stored in the 4th trailer, the box trailer you see the crew carrying parts into, as well as the tubs stacking on the sides of each outer trailer. I love these designs and Chance Manufacturing, (now Chance Rides: https://www.chancerides.com/history/ ), is one of the best in this country, with rides like the Turbo, (my personal favorite), the Zipper, and many more that you have likely ridden on as a kid or adult.