http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/07/a-merry-go-round-for-the-ice/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/07/a-merry-go-round-for-the-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-77521 Stannous Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:21:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/07/a-merry-go-round-for-the-ice/#comment-77521 When I was a foolish lad we used to use old parachutes to create near-lethal "whips" on the frozen flooded cranberry bogs and tributaries around Barnegat Bay, NJ. 5-7 guys on one end, the suicidal volunteer holding the other. They'd open the furled chute and brake at the same time and you'd get whipped around at serious speed. When (not if) you fell you'd still slide about 30 ft. Great fun! When I was a foolish lad we used to use old parachutes to create near-lethal “whips” on the frozen flooded cranberry bogs and tributaries around Barnegat Bay, NJ.
5-7 guys on one end, the suicidal volunteer holding the other. They’d open the furled chute and brake at the same time and you’d get whipped around at serious speed.
When (not if) you fell you’d still slide about 30 ft.
Great fun!

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