Discovered your channel last night for assembling a carnival ride and now have watched quite a few videos involving carnival ride restorations. All I can say is WOW! Watching you work in your shop and creating solutions reminds me of my grandfather who used to work for NASA. Anyway congrats on all the carnival ride restoration projects you have going on. Looking forward in seeing the completion of the rocket ride and that other ride with the cars and boats you had on that trailer with rotted wood sidings. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Glad you got the Little Eli wheel Pete! And at last Eli is still in business and will be able to help with everything. They are great people. Nice you have the spud wrench for it too!
If I lived a bit closer I would reach out and offer my garage for metal work. But the transport cost alone would make that impossible. I hope to see this ride back into full glory not long down the road. You are truly doing amazing work rescuing these. They dont make rides like this anymore and as you are finding out with these finds most are either in the condition you have here or they are too far gone or even (whispers) rotten in a dirt and grass lump in some field somewhere.
Pete I wish you had a place where you could store the rides , out of the harsh elements of this world… but I am with you all the way . FYI I am stuck like glue to your channel and a big fan on restoring old carnival rides.. keep up the good work and keep them videos coming… thank you for sharing
Hey you got that classic guess he came down on the price thats awesome thats a really rare wheel and size cant wait to see the progress on this thanks for your work and restorations for ride and carnival fanatics like myself
In 1951, we lived in Steger, Illinois, and I remember the Johnnie Doolan carnival would travel around to various towns in the summer. Some of my buddies and I would get $5 for each ride we helped set up. The ferris wheel was the one I helped rig most often. Manufactured by the Eli Bridge Company of Danville, Illinois. Good way to pick up some extra pocket money while I was still in high school.
Will Pete I think you've all done yourself. Soon you'll have your own little portable kiddy carnival. Myself I started building one from scratch because I couldn't find one and then my friendly welder decided he was going to take a break and didn't weld up my buckets. But it don't look like it'll take much time Just a little bit of effort to get that thing sandblasted and cleaned up enjoy it and keep them coming If I didn't live so far away I donate some of my things to you we'll show you a whole backyard up😂. Oh you when you're showing the place where the jacks under the stabilizing arms why couldn't use the jacks from some staging and you know when you need to take them off you take them off and you know they're a lot heavier duty and then the trailer jacks. Just one of my many ideas. All right let's get that first one done so we can get started on the second one
Great grab here, Pete! I'm really looking forward to this. Do you have ANY manuals at all for this thing? Or are you going to "wing it" when it comes to reassembly/restoration? Thanks for keeping us entertained!
We have the setup manual as well as the parts manuals and a few service/inspection bulletins. However, most of the important information in those manuals was about the drive system which no longer exists. The basic wheel itself you can look at and pretty much see how it all works and goes together.
I always wanted to ride of those vintage wheels. The industrial look really is amazing. I love our huge Ferris Wheels in europe, but this thing is what I really want.
I was hoping you'd pick this up! I'd definitely do this one next. At least get it sandblasted and powder coated to stabilize it from further decay. Or just spray the whole thing in cheap primer so it doesn't get any worse over the winter.
MIght want to see if you get some ultrasonic testing to be done. No point in doing a bunch of work if it collapses into a pile of rust as soon as you hang all the sweeps.
We will do the rocket for sure. We've already started some little projects with the combo, so work will continue on that- But I can imagine some days when we get down to sanding all those fiberglass car bodies where we will need a break and want something else to tinker with. That is where the wheel will start.
The combo will probably be easiest, but the ferris wheel will be amazing to see fixed up. There is just something so iconic about a ferris wheel. They are THE ride you think of when you are talking about amusement parks or carnivals.
That’s funny, You’re the second person today who has told me about that gauge. Funny how that happens. Don’t even know something exists and then all of a sudden ya hear about it from all over the place.
Enjoy the work on all. Are you going to keep the ferris wheel a trailer? Perhaps rebuild on an H beam pallet ? A trailer could come later if you want mobilization. I can see a shortened scrap 18 wheeler tractor frame and front axle becoming that platform, a bit of overkill (or a large truck for those long C-chanels w/2 front axles).
To be perfectly honest, the only thing that makes this project economically viable is this UA-cam channel. I love working on this sort of stuff and love to see it preserved, but, at the end of the day the cost to restore this versus the value is probably going to be a loss or at best a break-even proposition. However, the small amount of income this channel generates helps to offset that (And the hope that the channel will continue to grow and the income will grow and can help fund even larger projects)
Only halfway through and I emailed an offer to that broker on your find.....glad they came down from 6K plus...It is converted now as see detail...great find and about hot the floor after posting the purchase.
Yeah, I think this makes the most sense. As someone pointed it, If I don't get to the combo first, the kids will get too big to ride it. The Ferris wheel has a larger size range so it can wait a bit.
I’d be glad to help if you need any hydraulic resources on this! I work for an industrial automation/hydraulic company. We’ve built/rebuilt quite a few hydraulic systems and control panels for the amusement industry over the years.
As you are (also) doing this for your grandkids I'd look at what is most fun for them. Right now the car ride is probably something that better suits them than the ferris wheel. While if you do them the other way around they might be to old for the car ride by the time you are finished with it.
Hahaha it has been so long I had to revisit this. Your brother is my kinda guy. "This thing ain't pulling right" Guurrrr roommm as he hits the accelerator. Oh wow they have done some mods on this that aren't up to speck for sure.
Yeah, it was modified over 30 years ago when things weren't given quite the scrutiny they are now. and unfortunately he didn't keep any of the cable drive pieces.
I bet if you called egal park they would guve you some of the abandond carnival rides that are on the property. They have a baschiff wild mouse, a kiddie ferris wheel, and some others.
I’ve got short clips of them running in two different videos but no video dedicated to just the hurricanes. The video from two weeks ago about our restoration progress shows one running m And the video from a month ago about salvaging electrical panels.
@@PeteRondeau why are they becoming harder to find at fairs? As a kid I was always so impressed by the way they operate using air and the noise it makes.
@@Frediv_theThe last ones that I've seen have new open tubs and stuff that kinda looks like 2 old parachute tubs back to back for a modern day look. With a complete LED light package and 95% of the people think that it is brand new. The major problem is that the ride only holds 24 a cycle and now days it's all about capacity more than the experience...
If you lay your hands on this attraction, it will live! It's a pity that I live in Ukraine, but I was happy to help you! I love such mechanisms! And the mice, I think, guarded this object!
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Wow! Amazing extra project! If I was you're neighbour, I'd be round every day begging to help you get these things restored! Great stuff!
Discovered your channel last night for assembling a carnival ride and now have watched quite a few videos involving carnival ride restorations.
All I can say is WOW! Watching you work in your shop and creating solutions reminds me of my grandfather who used to work for NASA.
Anyway congrats on all the carnival ride restoration projects you have going on.
Looking forward in seeing the completion of the rocket ride and that other ride with the cars and boats you had on that trailer with rotted wood sidings.
Thank you for sharing this with the world.
How cool is that?!? Not only looking forward to seeing this project in the future, but looking forward to seeing it done the RIGHT way.
Glad you got the Little Eli wheel Pete! And at last Eli is still in business and will be able to help with everything. They are great people. Nice you have the spud wrench for it too!
Hi Pete I'm glad you were able to rescue This amazing piece of History.
Me too!
If I lived a bit closer I would reach out and offer my garage for metal work. But the transport cost alone would make that impossible.
I hope to see this ride back into full glory not long down the road. You are truly doing amazing work rescuing these. They dont make rides like this anymore and as you are finding out with these finds most are either in the condition you have here or they are too far gone or even (whispers) rotten in a dirt and grass lump in some field somewhere.
I used to work operations at Dorney and I have such a fondness for these goofy little rides.
Pete I wish you had a place where you could store the rides , out of the harsh elements of this world… but I am with you all the way .
FYI I am stuck like glue to your channel and a big fan on restoring old carnival rides.. keep up the good work and keep them videos coming… thank you for sharing
That's an awesome Eli. My 2¢, I think the wheel would probably grow the channel faster with new viewers than the combo ride.
I agree with you, but it has been pointed out that if I don't get to the combo first, the kids are going to get too big to use it.
Great little find. Glad you found it and will bring it back to life.
You could have played the mouse game🐭🐭🤣🤣
Hey you got that classic guess he came down on the price thats awesome thats a really rare wheel and size cant wait to see the progress on this thanks for your work and restorations for ride and carnival fanatics like myself
Thanks 👍
Pete, that thing is awesome. I love it. And I'm glad we just got about another year's worth of future content from you!
at the speed i move but be several years... LOL
"Wow, it's really big." I love this channel!
LOL
In 1951, we lived in Steger, Illinois, and I remember the Johnnie Doolan carnival would travel around to various towns in the summer. Some of my buddies and I would get $5 for each ride we helped set up. The ferris wheel was the one I helped rig most often. Manufactured by the Eli Bridge Company of Danville, Illinois. Good way to pick up some extra pocket money while I was still in high school.
Thanks for sharing!
Wow, that's going to be a project! But will be so cool when finished. Best of luck and I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
Wow, that will be fabulous when it’s done!
Looks like you have your own kiddie park! Just need a ticket booth!
ehhh.. the kids would always just be asking me for money to buy tickets.. Might as well cut out the middle man. LOL
Will Pete I think you've all done yourself. Soon you'll have your own little portable kiddy carnival. Myself I started building one from scratch because I couldn't find one and then my friendly welder decided he was going to take a break and didn't weld up my buckets. But it don't look like it'll take much time Just a little bit of effort to get that thing sandblasted and cleaned up enjoy it and keep them coming If I didn't live so far away I donate some of my things to you we'll show you a whole backyard up😂.
Oh you when you're showing the place where the jacks under the stabilizing arms why couldn't use the jacks from some staging and you know when you need to take them off you take them off and you know they're a lot heavier duty and then the trailer jacks. Just one of my many ideas.
All right let's get that first one done so we can get started on the second one
Pete I would love to see that ferris wheel working again
Great grab here, Pete! I'm really looking forward to this. Do you have ANY manuals at all for this thing? Or are you going to "wing it" when it comes to reassembly/restoration? Thanks for keeping us entertained!
We have the setup manual as well as the parts manuals and a few service/inspection bulletins. However, most of the important information in those manuals was about the drive system which no longer exists. The basic wheel itself you can look at and pretty much see how it all works and goes together.
Wow 🤩 you got it! I was just getting up to date on the last 4 videos and super glad you did get this wheel 👍
I always wanted to ride of those vintage wheels. The industrial look really is amazing. I love our huge Ferris Wheels in europe, but this thing is what I really want.
I was hoping you'd pick this up! I'd definitely do this one next. At least get it sandblasted and powder coated to stabilize it from further decay. Or just spray the whole thing in cheap primer so it doesn't get any worse over the winter.
Thats awesome!!!! Can't wait to see it hopefully restored
You and me both!
MIght want to see if you get some ultrasonic testing to be done. No point in doing a bunch of work if it collapses into a pile of rust as soon as you hang all the sweeps.
Why doesnt this surprise me?
So glad you bought this. But maybe finish the others first.
We will do the rocket for sure. We've already started some little projects with the combo, so work will continue on that- But I can imagine some days when we get down to sanding all those fiberglass car bodies where we will need a break and want something else to tinker with. That is where the wheel will start.
@@PeteRondeau I definitely understand that! Are you planning on sandblasting the whole wheel?
I’d love to get a sponsorship from Evapo-Rust and just dunk the whole thing. Lol 😂
SAVE FERRIS!!
LOL
The combo will probably be easiest, but the ferris wheel will be amazing to see fixed up.
There is just something so iconic about a ferris wheel. They are THE ride you think of when you are talking about amusement parks or carnivals.
Glad to see another project coming. Keep up the great work. Cheers from southwestern Ontario.
Very cool Pete! I have a tool that measures the hanger, latch pins and seat hanger pins.
That’s funny, You’re the second person today who has told me about that gauge. Funny how that happens. Don’t even know something exists and then all of a sudden ya hear about it from all over the place.
The little tubes on the side are for hauling fence.
Congrats on your new project
I find these restoration videos very interesting
Glad you like them!
Yay another restoration project
Looking forward to the new project.
This guys wife is going to watch as her yard becomes a carnival 🤣
Enjoy the work on all. Are you going to keep the ferris wheel a trailer? Perhaps rebuild on an H beam pallet ? A trailer could come later if you want mobilization. I can see a shortened scrap 18 wheeler tractor frame and front axle becoming that platform, a bit of overkill (or a large truck for those long C-chanels w/2 front axles).
Not really sure what the plan is yet. need to get a few of the other projects put to bed first.
Hey pete i am glad you got to save that ride but do you know how much it will cost to fix it ? And will you make it back to the original state
To be perfectly honest, the only thing that makes this project economically viable is this UA-cam channel. I love working on this sort of stuff and love to see it preserved, but, at the end of the day the cost to restore this versus the value is probably going to be a loss or at best a break-even proposition. However, the small amount of income this channel generates helps to offset that (And the hope that the channel will continue to grow and the income will grow and can help fund even larger projects)
Only halfway through and I emailed an offer to that broker on your find.....glad they came down from 6K plus...It is converted now as see detail...great find and about hot the floor after posting the purchase.
Definitely combo ride first. Some time taken/custom paint on the cars will be awesome. Ferris wheel looks like more trouble than its worth.
Yeah, I think this makes the most sense. As someone pointed it, If I don't get to the combo first, the kids will get too big to ride it. The Ferris wheel has a larger size range so it can wait a bit.
I’d be glad to help if you need any hydraulic resources on this! I work for an industrial automation/hydraulic company. We’ve built/rebuilt quite a few hydraulic systems and control panels for the amusement industry over the years.
Thank you so much! I may just take you up on that offer!
@@PeteRondeau I look forward to it! Let me know how I can get you my contact info.
Cool! Nice buy!
As you are (also) doing this for your grandkids I'd look at what is most fun for them.
Right now the car ride is probably something that better suits them than the ferris wheel. While if you do them the other way around they might be to old for the car ride by the time you are finished with it.
This is an excellent point. thanks!
This will be great if you restore it like the rocket ride.
Hahaha it has been so long I had to revisit this. Your brother is my kinda guy. "This thing ain't pulling right" Guurrrr roommm as he hits the accelerator. Oh wow they have done some mods on this that aren't up to speck for sure.
Yeah, it was modified over 30 years ago when things weren't given quite the scrutiny they are now. and unfortunately he didn't keep any of the cable drive pieces.
Gas powered Ferris wheel 😂 man how the times have changed! Can’t wait to see this baby restored!
This great gear mast have new life. You great master .
Looks more like a project for Mustie1 with all those mice 😅😅
Well, maybe we can collaborate on it. somebody hook me up... LOL
Mr bueller, your ride is here.
Maybe we should name her Beulah.
you should sand blast all then use under coat it to save it
I wondered if you would end up getting it after I saw it in your last video.
It just kept eating at me
Where's the other half of the ferreis wheel?
all the spokes are laying in the trailer and the seats are stowed in my ambulance for now.
This is how it travels, the rest of it racks on the trailer...
I want to see one ride completed
Hey pete are you taking donations for the ferris wheel to be refubed..chris
I bet if you called egal park they would guve you some of the abandond carnival rides that are on the property. They have a baschiff wild mouse, a kiddie ferris wheel, and some others.
Can you help me find a hurricane ride? I have not seen one in a very long time . I’m from east coast and was hoping you a had a video on one!
I’ve got short clips of them running in two different videos but no video dedicated to just the hurricanes. The video from two weeks ago about our restoration progress shows one running m And the video from a month ago about salvaging electrical panels.
@@PeteRondeau why are they becoming harder to find at fairs? As a kid I was always so impressed by the way they operate using air and the noise it makes.
The hurricane is still around and the air blast is iconic,
@@Frediv_theThe last ones that I've seen have new open tubs and stuff that kinda looks like 2 old parachute tubs back to back for a modern day look. With a complete LED light package and 95% of the people think that it is brand new. The major problem is that the ride only holds 24 a cycle and now days it's all about capacity more than the experience...
Ooh another ride?
One day it will be as good as new. Or even better. For sure.
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
super projet 👍
Happy for you!
Better you than me though. Lol
Come on Tom! You need a project like this!
Ferris Wheel First!
My bad...different wheel...
so what? your opening a littlie show? 😂😂
We Can Keep The Ferris wheel If You Want To :)
LOL
If you lay your hands on this attraction, it will live! It's a pity that I live in Ukraine, but I was happy to help you! I love such mechanisms! And the mice, I think, guarded this object!
The Ferris wheel first
that is pulled by a 5 ton truck
I want tobsee the ferris wheel..
spud wrench
... some people save whales or collect stamps....
😂🤣
Can not wait to see you complete reVamp this 🎡
Me too... me too.
It is so sad to see a ride in such terrible condition. To me it doesn't look as if it can be revived, but I wish you luck in the long journey ahead.