gypsyjoker

The ride is trailer mounted, it's moved as one piece on it's center trailer. The tubs on the Turbo or the seats on the Radar are moved on a second semi. The rotating head is mounted permently to the deck of the flat bed center trailed. The bed of the center trailer hinged its full width on both sides of the head. During set-up the two ends of the trailer are pulled together, forming an a-frame or V shape, with the head about twenty feet in the air. Amazing to watch. Axles extend out both sides of the head with the folded farris wheel sweeps open exactly like folded umbrella ribs. Turbo tubs or Radar seats are the only major parts that have to be attached. The original ride was was known as the Raven and was painted Black with green and yellow trim. A Raven was up for sale last year. The Radar's wide seats were made for three adult passengers giving a capacity of sixty, insurance companies cut this back to forty for safety reasons. Buttler Amusement built a knock-off in-house version with a much simpler conventional trailer and a mechanical center drive. It used two passenger farris wheel seats hung from fish hook "Seattle Wheel" hangers. He even called it "The Raven or Radar Wheel". Chance Turbo and Radar tubs are inter changeable, although the much rangier Turbo will out draw the Radar, just as the Sky Diver will out draw the Astrowheel.