BRW Episode 10 Life on the road. Setting up THE SPIDER Ride
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2023
- Watch the setup of the Spider, also known as the Black Widow amusement ride setup. The ride is transported to the setup location and constructed on site by Big Round Wheel Amusements. Find out some tips on Amusement ride safety and how to keep passengers safe during the ride.
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GREAT video and what BACK-BREAKING work to assemble and disassemble this ride. I salute you all! (When I was a kid back in the 1960's, this ride was called "The Octopus.")
It was still called the octopus into the late 90s!
Glad to See there are Very Professional Companies like BRW Operating around the US. Thanks for doing such a Great Job explaining it. Great Audio/Video. 👍🙏
Really appreciate you showing us so much detail. I'm in UK, we have lots of enthusiasts making videos but to get the real close view of someone in the business is great.
Well Interesting, well done for all the Hard Work, Stephen.
I'm aware that your clients primarily consist of large companies and their families, and I must say, I would absolutely love the opportunity to experience and enjoy your amazing rides! They look absolutely spotless and incredibly well maintained for a U.S. based company. By the way, I have a side hobby of crafting scale models of carnival rides, and it would be an absolute dream come true if I could have the chance to measure, model, and bring your rides to life in miniature form.
LOVE TO SEE ROLLER 0 PLANE SET UP ABSOLUTELY ENJOY EACH VIDEO. THANK YOU.
Always impressed by the engineering need to make a fold up attraction freeway legal!! When I was young and strong looking I was asked if I wanted to come back at closing time to pack up their Top Hat ride. It is a rotating deck with teacups and periodically the whole deck racks up to a 25 or 30° angle with a big swoosh! of air (from an accumulator?). It was fascinating, exhausting and very labor intensive. Their double ferris wheel was taken down and driven away in 1/3 the time with 1/2 the crew. We saw the Sun coming up and we started at 10 the night before...
Love the professionalism and how great all the rides look! Please come to the Louisville Ky area! ❤
The Spider and the support equipment is in beautiful shape. Nice to see that great care goes into the setup and take down of the ride.
Two things about that design...
The Battech Black Widow is an Eyerly Spider that sits on a trailer and swaps the countershaft for an electric drive. So other than the changes to the drive, it's fundamentally the old Eyerly Ride. Which is a good thing, because the Spider is a fantastic ride in almost every possible way (well, apart from some issues on the old sweeps...). Anyway, that apparently informs a couple of design decisions on the Black Widow. By floating the center over the trailer instead of using the trailer as part of the support structure like almost every other trailer mounted ride out there, the engineering of the center support is unchanged from the old ground mount ride, so nothing about the center had to be changed structurally. As you point out, it's a kind of a brilliant decision to do it that way, although it means you have to deal with the outriggers instead of just having them as part of the trailer..
But I suspect that also explains that @#$% pin that you can't get into the tension rod near the base. Because the design of the center was unchanged, they didn't move or alter the pin that is now obstructed by the trailer.
Given the amount of detail Battech seems to have gone into with trying to make the setup and teardown of the ride "not suck", like the battery operated hydraulics and the self contained cranes, it does seem odd that they didn't somehow address that pin.
When connecting the cam locks always connect the ground first. When disconnecting unhook the ground last
Darren, I think that Battech did a great job redesigning the Spider. The old way was a lot more difficult to set up, and now running it is so nice. Thanks for sharing.❤
That Paratrooper is BEAUTIFUL! 😃
I like these set-up videos! Subscribed!
I LOVE the Spider rides!!! They are my favorite on any midway, next to the Enterprise!!
Darren, Excellent set up and demonstration! Can't wait for the Himalaya next! Great video series on ride set ups! Great job!!
Totally agree!!!
Enjoy your videos! I hope episode 11 is setting up the sidewinder.. I have never seen a super sidewinder before I’ve only heard of them, the Rollo plane was always my favorite ride. Please do a video on that set up. Thanks!
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Amazing how that all fits on one trailer. Brilliant engineering there for sure. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for a very detailed and well done video. I've worked for two different shows and both shows had a Spider which I worked on and moved. This is the first time I have gotten to see and watch the new trailer mounted version get set up. Quite a bit different than what I would be used to. Especially the operating with buttons instead of two handles. I also want to compliment you on having a nice looking show
I also love that you guys bought Wisdom's reboot of the Spider and are showing us how to setup it up! I love the details!
This is a great ride. They used to have it at all the fairs in Indiana where I lived but now I live in Alabama and have been here for 26 years and never once seen this ride at any fair. My kids have never rode this ride because they don’t have it and this was my favorite ride when I was a kid.
Absolutely genius design!!! I remember cranking the center up on the back of a trailer many times!!
I love the way you all work together as a team. Even your youngest son knows what he's doing.
Watching your bumper car set up on slightly sloping ground. I wish I had a picture but I swear my local fair as a kid was on such a slope that the bumper cars had the paybox end on ground level and at the other end it was 4 1/2 feet in the air. You would have needed a ladder to get on or off😂.
Interesting to see! Looks like quite a dangerous job to assemble...
Another excellent video. Really shows the ins and out. Takes a lot of work
Always been interested in the technical aspect of these things, really great to have a detailed explanation of how it comes together and how it works. Excellent production, though the music was full 80's p0rn there for a minute lol!
I just found your channel.. I assume you bring your son and it brings back memories.. I grew up just like him traveling show to show with my dad.. it’s why I became a welder.. thank you soo much for the awesome videos .. I just hope you take care of your health.. so many people die young in this business.. lost my dad at 52 cuz he ate like a carny , smoked and he barely slept cuz when we weren’t open his life was driving show to show..I love the paratrooper.. I’ve never seen bonnets without lights and is that a tempest or a hustler with tempest tubs and umbrellas?
Great video mate
Love watching these Videos even though I can’t Be there watching these videos do it justice.👍
Thanks for producing this video, I really enjoyed it. It’s nice to see the care and concern that goes into setting up the Spider. I definitely will watch more of your videos.
PS ……..I’m wondering if your spider might be a distant relative of mine😜🕷️
Cool video
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.
VERY INTERESTING. 😊
I’m a product of the 60’s I know that ride as the octopus !
That looks alot easier than the older ground mounts i used to setup and pulled over the road for 20 years 😂
Those were the days for sure. The Spider, Scrambler were a beast. Very heavy and hard to set up. You had to have very strong men to set them up. Today's rides have been made more diverse and much easier to set up. Still this Spider is somewhat complex however it all mostly stays on the trailer which makes it a bit easier. I really like this ride series. This guy definitely cares about safety and keeping his rides in really good working order.
When I was young I worked on the carnival that had an octopus that is similar it wasn't the same we had a chain hoist had to move by hand them sweeps are heavy I know what you mean by manual labor great video keep them thank you❤❤❤❤
Great video! Beautiful machine. A laser tape measure device might allow your crew to set the perimeter gate at the proper distance when first setting it up to avoid having to re-tune it later with measure wheel shaving a bit of time.
I'm a ride junkie from Montana, and just found this channel by accident! Absolutely loved this video, and it's crazy how the new Battech Spider cars load so differently from the old Eyerly ones! Have you guys ever had an Eyerly one? If so, which do you prefer?
Excellent job keeping your rides nice. They're gorgeous dude!
On your Himalaya, I have a question: I think it's a smaller Wisdom model. I've been on the larger Wisdom ones, and felt they had basically zero airtime when compared to Mack, SBF and Bertazzon models. That smaller one you have seems to have more dramatic hills, so does it have good airtime? The big ones from Wisdom are practically a flat disc on an angle, so you get lateral G's but never negative vertical ones 😞
Over across the pond here in the uk, we call this ride the octopus its basically the same ride.
Excelent demo. Greetings from Cartagena Colombia
The spider I remember was ground mount. My 2 favorite rides to set up are the scrambler and we had a 30 foot 2 abreast merry go round. When I was with Burback and Bolengers funtastic shows out of Portland OR.
This one is still ground mounted. When it’s setup it isn’t attached to the trailer.
Boy, i've never viewed a spider ride racked like that! That trailer alone must have been well over the usual 34' long.
This is very impressive
Thanks for taking us along, super informative. One question: I didn't see any torque wrenches, does this ride need those for setup?
LOve the new himalaya!
Don't you guys play any music on carnivals?
Fascinating ride setup.. will you ever add the zipper to your carnival??
we never had troubles with the mud sills
Hey really enjoy watching your videos 👍
I have a question do u have to go through the scales/inspection stations
I noticed on your red Pete u have private not for hire
Thanks n great job
Mike and family from New Brunswick Canada
I ran the roll low plane all week
can't wait for the fix.
I have never seen rides and equipment that clean in my life. Nice to see this professional traveling carnival 🎡 I want to buy a Zipper for home use.
Lol you don’t want a zipper.. the cable, drive motors and track wheels require maintenance as well as the door latches need to be replaced every year unless chance changed the 3 lock design.. plus the cost..
Good point probably be lots of maintenance time and money required to keep the zipper safe and running!@@welding_guy7524
Must be nice. Everything i had to put was ground mounts. Back in the day 😂
Is there a video showing the setup of the Enterprise and the Trabant?
Hi just asking when will there be some new videos i do enjoy then find it interesting hope you all are going well 😊.
We had a Spider that had stainless steel seat frames.
Older ride with updated seats
I never had that problem with a mudsill pin
Try to put the pin in the brace first, slide the brace in line with the hole, raise the pin to clear the hole.
This is called the Octopus everywhere I've ever been too.
The Octopus has one tub on each sweep. Eyerly Aircraft modified the octopus twice, the Spider having 2 tubs on each sweep and later the Monster having 4. The Spider and Octopus being the most successful of the 3. Very few monsters traveled as most went to parks. The design of the Monster was not that great and probably the reason it was not successful.
the octopus has 1 tub per sweep ..I’ve never seen the monster.. it’s always been one of those myths .I’ve also never seen a trailer mounted spider..it’s like a tilt all I’ve ever seen was ground mounts but then again I haven’t been in the business in 15 years
@@welding_guy7524 ok. I believe you. I've never paid that much attention to detail on it.
@@welding_guy7524 I believe you. I've never paid close enough attention to it.
It’s possible you saw a spider a show renamed.. it happens all the time.. its kinda like how wisdom has 4 different names for the tornado or graviton ..
How much is a contraption like this if you buy it new from the manufacturer?
Here we go
cool😲
we had t bars on the end of the sweeps
we set ours up by hand every part
he gets me giggling sometimes
How to you avoid burring the threads when having to pound the bolts into position?
How profitable can this be? The insurance alone has to be crazy
Ron Thomas/Thomas and Powers built the first Spider trailer similar to this.
les manèges Américains sont vraiment différent des manèges Européens
You should not have to fight them out riggers like that. Tell them boys which way to move the thing so the hole lines up. I put ground mount up easier then that 😂
How tall is this ride and how fast does this ride go I remember writing a black spider at the State Fair Indiana it was awesome one thing I like about it is two girls was sitting in the other part of the ride and I said they forgot to clean off the puke on that side and they looked over and they want it off but it was too late to ride took off I died laughing I couldn't I couldn't even enjoy the ride when I was laughing so hard at that they wanted off of the Restless they're getting sick I just had to die laughing but the right I couldn't tell if it was scary or fun but I just couldn't hold myself that was funny
we had hand controls
Hard too get into the car's up that high
DOn't you usually spot the big rides first. LOL
Looks to me like your struggle pin is just a bit too long.
Spider 🕸
cut the pin down one inch
mudsills
a can of paint and a rush
You must have investors, already be wealthy or just use the banks money lol. Even used rides are expensive for the average joe.
it is not teadeous