The Witch’s Hat! The bestest, funnest, most dangerous piece of playground equipment EVER! There was one of these at a city park in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, back in the 1960s, and my cousins and I used to have a BALL on it! If you were REALLY foolhardy, you’d jump inside and try to avoid being smooshed between the swinging part and the central pole!

It’s too bad cool old playground equipment like slides and swings and teeter-totters and merry-go-rounds are vanishing for fear that some kid might get a bruise or chip a tooth. Eventually playgrounds are going to be little more than big piles of pillows … which is pretty much what the kids of the future will be like also.

Your web page, however, simply says “HOME”, which isn’t very useful to someone hopping between multiple windows.

Usually, the html code “meta name=”title” content=”Title goes here”" is used (with angle brackets around the whole thing.) If you’re using a page creation tool, you usually set an attribute named “Title” in some way.

By the way, your web site’s “title” html items are a bit bland (“Home”?) “Twirlgoround Home” would be better (and less likely to confuse the easily befuddled such as me.)

* I think that’ll come around again in a few more years…

If I recall, the handles were just welded up from 1/4″ steel rod, with a loop at the top to connect the chain to via a screw-on shackle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ature=fvsr

The diagrams should be sufficient to fabricate the center pivot & drive mechanism (and no clutch required).

There was a smaller version at a playground near my house when I was very young, but it disappeared. I’m not sure if it was made by the same company, but worked on the same principle.

I found one of the large ones a while back in a town park near Cumberland MD and took some photos with view of getting one made sometime. If you’d like to see, check :

http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~marizel/carousel/