hanging carousel, equipped with horses made out of wine-casks and chariots from beer-barrels, with medieval looking rigging and rope suspension, illumination with torches, operation by turning a crank-wheel on the center structure, with integrate wheel of fortune, with approval of TÜV Munich. Road traffic licensing for roadmodels.
stationary, parkmodel
EUR 56.200,--
portable roadmodel
EUR 61.400,--
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turning-floor-carousel, 24 seating places, stationary
EUR 61.400,--
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with hanging beer and wine barrels
EUR 43.500,--
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Inscripted in the Guiness Book of World Records
The ferries wheel's charm lies in its construction which is reminiscent of wooden water-wheels. An amazing piece of equipment, seemingly built of wood, with great entertainment value.
Four gondolas, each capable of holding 2 adults or 3 children, hang between two water-wheel-like wheels. Ballast sandbags hung from the gondolas guarantee a smooth and pleasant ride as they can counteract differences in passengers weight. Three to four crankers on the periphery of the wheel get it up to full operational speed. By means of an axial foot pedal crank on the base of the ferries wheel, the operator can maintain the duration of a ride from 100 to 150 seconds. The feries wheel has a neutral gear as well as forward and reverse gears, a brake, and an emergency brake. These technical innovations were approved by TÜV Munich (German safety inspectors). The ferries wheel is mounted on a double axel trailer, weights 2500 kilograms, and is 4 meters high, 3 meters wide, and
5 meters long. It is immediatly ready for operation without a lot of seting up. The idea for the construction came to Peter Petz while studying old source material dealing with scissors grinders who used a foot pedal to keep a large stone in motion. In the late Middle Ages, royal pleasure gardens had similar ferries wheels that used serfs to provide the immens power needed. Nowadays, unions allow workers a maximum work load of 20 Nm, Petz has reduced this hand powered operation to 5 Nm.
Premiere: Towns folk festival Augsburg 1994
stationary, parkmodel
EUR 35.800,--
transportable, roadmodel, with traffic licenses
EUR 43.500,--
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small, wheel diameter 0,90 m
EUR 1.230,--
large, wheel diameter 1,80 m
EUR 3.070,--
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