Home Built Wood Coaster!

[Peis]

A German pupil built his own Woodencoaster:

[kenshinmac]

OMG a credit Robb doesn't have... I want a POV...

[CoasterFanatic]

Shouldn't it read:

 

"German Pupil Builds Lift-Hill with 'Certain Death' Drop!"

 

// looks very steel-ish

[DragonKhan]

A German pupil built his own Woodencoaster:

Amerikanisch is "Student" Matthias

[Cerberus]

HAHA! That's great!

 

It looks like a wooden Millennium Force.

His eye for detail is good. Even constructing a little evacuation stairway.

 

Can anyone (Of German nationality, probably) translate that article?

 

 

Cerb- Looks better than a few real wooden coasters already -erus

[Wes]

I create self-made woodies all the time, I don't get any newspaper articles written about me.

[coastercub]

Well it's a lovely looking lift hill with a tree splashdown on the other side !

 

Do we have a name for it yet ?

[Coasterlicious]

.. Is this actually ride -able

[MrMorgan]

 

Can anyone (Of German nationality, probably) translate that article?

 

 

Cerb- Looks better than a few real wooden coasters already -erus

 

i'm not german, but i play one on the stage and screen, (haha, but it's true), and i can translate it. i will use the word "bla" to replace the non interesting filler and just leave the meat:

 

highschooler is building his own rollercoaster

 

david mosmann used to dream about loops, turns, and helixes. he loves rollercoasters. not a big deal for the average 14 year old. but soon, he won't have to go to an amusement park to get his adrenalin rush: he's building his own coaster.

 

bla bla bla he used to argue a lot with his parent's who complained he spent too much time playing "roller coaster designer" on the computer. so he said, "fine, then i'll build my own coaster. bla bla bla

he used "roller coaster designer" to design it, and brought the plans to his dad, who's a carpenter. bla bla. his dad said, "you'll never finish this", but after 3 months, there's already a big part of the coaster standing in a field belonging to his aunt. when it's finished, it will be 100 meters long, 5 meters tall, and take a year to build. bla bla. the first drop with be 69 degrees steep, and it will have a top speed of 47kmh. bla bla bla. the coaster, which is made entirely of wood and screws, will work without electricity, using a weight on the end of a cable to pull the train, (which will weigh around 70kilos), to the top.

 

soeren and german tom, how did i do?

[J man]

How do you use weights to power a lift hill? It would go up rather fast wouldn't it? Oh wait I guess it would depend on how much the car weighs. Nevermind. I was never really that good at physics.

[benzo41190]

That would work but how would the car go back on the cable. You woul dhave to like lift the weight back up.

[CoasterFanatic]

What's funny is that the kid is 14 years old and he has already out-engineered Ron Toomer.

 

// I know .... different time, different tools

[benzo41190]

When did Ron retire, if he did.

 

dont know much about ARROW.

[Sir Clinksalot]

This story would be much better if it was an American kid rather than a German.

 

That way the followup next year would be much more interesting:

 

KID BREAKS NECK ON HOMEMADE ROLLERCOASTER - PARENTS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SUE THEMSELVES

 

That, of course, wouldn't happen. We all know the parents would just sue the freaking lumber yard or something (wait, didn't we half translate it as his aunt's field - oooh, family suing family - it's almost like North and South without all the killing!).

 

I have too much freetime.

 

Consider the fact that it's either wander around TPR or go finish putting together our print of "Supercross" (no, it's not the sequel to Passion of the Christ)

 

/edited because I can't type.

[benzo41190]

How much did he cost so far?

 

Just the drop looks expensive. Also those dont look like the best supports. Looks like a Anton coasters with very un-dense supports.

[AllisonY2K]

I'm surprised this guy isn't a member here. that's an awesome job so far!

[Jose Eber]

German was my first language -- but that was nearly 30 years ago. Sorry, my german now is reallly rough. Here's my best effort.

 

Junior High School student builds his own RollerCoaster

Computer gameing gave David Mossmann an idea. His Familie is helping him.

 

OffenBurg.

 

David Mossmann dreams of curves, loopes and spirals. The student (in Offenburg) loves to ride rollercoasters -- nothing unusual for a 14 year old. But soon he doesn’t need to go to a themepark for his adrenalin rush..it will be outside his house in his self built rollercoaster.

 

Initially, there was a common place argument between parents and their child over how each day their oldest would sit in front of their computer. Gabi, the mother would say “you shouldn’t be sitting in front of the computer so often” Probably an argument that happens in the thousands all over Germany.

But what do you do when like David, your favorite free time activity is to sit in front of the monitor and play ‘Rollercoaster Designer’ [translator edit: Ultimate Ride] “Then I’ll build a real coaster” was the answer of this 14 year old.

Said and done. But next again was the computer needed for help. Ultimate Ride and a tracing program calculated for David the size and curves of his coaster.

After that, David installed the .9 meter long single wood ties in his Dad John’s workshop.

John Mossmann was real skeptical “You’ll never get that to work” said the experienced carpenter. A sentence David quickly spurred.

 

Three months have passed an already stands a considerable section of the coaster on a field that belongs to his aunt directly by his parents home. The coaster is to be 100 meters long and 5 meters high. Building time: a year.

When the conversation turns to the technical details of his project, David Mossmann gets excited. With a 5 meter high stance and a 69 degree fall, you can get a top speed of 47 Km/h.

“When I place weights in the car, it will go faster” says David, who’s looking for a trade school in town. The woodie coaster will be built without steel (except for screws). The 70 kg coaster car will be transported up to the highest point on the lift hill via a pulley block system and then let go.

 

Article by Klaus Koernich, translation by Jose Eber

[CoasterEricHP]

That way the followup next year would be much more interesting:

 

KID BREAKS NECK ON HOMEMADE ROLLERCOASTER - PARENTS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SUE THEMSELVES

 

 

 

HAHA.. So true... so true..

 

I'm always contemplating on injuring myself somewhere just to sue someone... I mean dammit... just today I have a little blister on my hand from throwing a baseball.. I should go after the baseball sweat shop.

 

Eric

[Kooky]

I found no other suitable thread so i put in here. Its a nice onride video of a track which is build directly on the terrain, found this one in the german http://onride.de forum:

 

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/homemade-roller-coaster-has-banked-turns-is-very-fast

 

the last part really gets fast... i wana ride it

[cfc]

^He's built a mini-version of The Ultimate.

[Team Thriller]

How come when I read this title, the first thing I thought about was porn?

 

That coaster looks amazing. I would ride it backwards also if it was in my backyard. You could imagine how intense those turns would be if they where unexpected.

 

--James

[robbalvey]

OMG a credit Robb doesn't have... I want a POV...

I wouldn't count a "backyard coaster" as a credit to begin with. If it's not possible for the "public" to ride it, I don't count it.

 

If that was the case, I'd go build a ramp down the the back of our apartment complex and ride a modified skateboard on it and call it a coaster!

 

Although if I did that then Jeff Johnson would build like a THOUSAND of them, but we don't want to open up that can of worms, do we?

 

Seriously though, I think the whole backyard coaster thing is "neat", but I wouldn't count it as an official "credit."

 

--Robb

[traincrossin]

Sorry to disappoint everyone, but...

A 14-year-old German boy has been ordered to pull down a 300ft long roller coaster which he built in his backyard.

 

The boy, unnamed due to German privacy laws, from Offenburg built the 16-foot-high wooden construction over the summer holidays.

 

He even designed his own carriage which can reach speeds of up to 30 mph.

 

But local town planning officials say he must pull it down again because he did not ask for planning permission.

 

They say the construction is too large and not built to rollercoaster safety standards. The boy has until mid-September to tear it down if he wants to avoid a fine.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1505904.html

 

That's really a bummer considering this was one of the best looking backyard coasters i've ever seen.

[Team Thriller]

Maybe he can sell the parts to me, I'll get permission.

 

--James

[Kooky]

seems that you over read my post, that wasn`t about this wood coaster, that`s n old thread, and i posted a new self made terrain coaster in here... but anyway, what that guy from offenburg had build looked really nice. So there are some other photos from before it was deconstructed and an article about it, because the EuropaPark and MACK rides owner decided to show this little piece of art in his park for some time(but this is also an old article):

 

Article and source of the pics http://www.parkscout.de/artikel/wissenschaftzumanfassenimeuropapark/achterbahn_coaster_ep

 

 

and @robb: you answered to a 4 year old post i had to smile when i read your answer... sounded a little bit huffy. But i had to say, if this one would have been build to the end, this would have been the first REALLY backyard coaster. Its track was designed and calculated and it should get a lenght of 100 metres and up to 47 km/h speed. So i think this one could had become the first proffesional amateur coaster in the world and i would have counted this as a REAL CREDIT in my opinion .... really sad that it never will happen.