BRW episode 7 life on the road. Setting up the Bumper Cars 

Great vid! Would have love to have seen it in operation and especially at night!

I live in the uk, i worked on a bumper car static park model, no matter how we tried to keep it covered, the floor was steel and rusted, and it would frequently need power washing, and a mechanical floor polisher machine running around it for a morning when the park was closed in low season, or the cars would stop working It wasnt so bad when it was seeing high traffic, because the tyres on the cars scrubbed the floor I worked on a top scan too, that was my favourite ride Im now a travelling showman myself, and im actually restoring a really old juvenile carousel, we call the small ones "Toysets" Its been left in a field for 18 years, and its going to need a lot of work Wish me luck

This assembly is so complex that it involves disassembly. Incredible mechanical engineering at it's purest. This is just mesmerizing, and you can tell the operator has the eye for safety and QC.

The engineering that went into that ride is extraordinary

I had no idea that much work went into assembling the ride. Great job guys.

That was totally amazing to watch, i have never realized the amount of work that is involved in setting up this ride! great job to all the workers!

Looked like a really nice day, weatherwise. Imagine doing this when it’s really hot, and muggy. You guys are the best. We take our kids and hope for a safe ride and thankful for people like you. Thank you.

The Amount of Man (and Woman) Hours Necessary to Assemble this Ride is Off the Charts, Unbelievable and Impressive. A LOT of Salaries to Pay. WOW! 🤔👍🙏

Man look at that nice level surface set it up on a real fair lot

It’s Really Hard to Believe that this Ride Fits on a Single Tractor Trailer Truck. 🤔👍

Love these videos, they are oddly fascinating. I must say, your attention to detail is admirable

The older guy in the grey out works the young guys, should be the other way around so they can learn how to be a hard working man, and take over one day! Cool to see the ride go up like this, bumper cars was one of my favorite rides at the amusement parks when I was a kid. Thanks for sharing keep up the great work

Cool video. I retired from Six Flags Over Ga And I had the Bumper Cars for 10 years they were very tough but very dirty from the brushes and steel floor. Good times.

Wow, hats off to you folks it’s really a cool piece of engineering the way this is configured. Who would’ve thought! Also, the hard work that goes into set up and take down. That’s incredible.

Wow I can't believe the advances in technology. I worked on a bumper car in Germany in 1974. Everything was iron, no hydraulics and no aluminum and took 5 men 3 days to assemble and a day and a half to pack up and move. Brutal hard work but lots of fun. Oh and it took 6 trailers to haul it all plus our 3 living (RV) trailers. The only thing the same is the leveling, blocking and squaring.

1950s early 60s, Revere Beach, Mass used to ride bumper cars, I was 10 years old then... watching you guys set those up reminds me, I can remember the smell of the electricity....

Man , mobile amusement park rides are the coolest it's so cool to see how such giant rides fold up into a truck trailer.

Very cool

I love this!

Hawkins of Rome NY was the original owner, was a great Amusement ride company now gone forever, I live in Rome and often see some trucks around town formally used for hauling rides around. Many memories of Hawkins

The only thing that would have made the video even better was seeing the cars in action after all the setup was done. Other than that this was outstanding!!

I use to work for Hawkins amusement ride and set that up and ran it a few times

oh how this brings back memories I did this kind of job for many years

used to work on the waltzers and speedway in the 70s and 80s great life i wish i was young again :)

Spent 35 years of my life traveling with some of America's biggest carnival companies. Just saying best time of my life.

Crazy how the whole ride unfolded from a semi truck. Transformers! More than meets the eye!

Another great video. I Thoroughly enjoy watching these to see how you do things across the pond 😊

NIce functional well thought out design. Never realized how much work was involved in setting the ride up. Great job and video !! Stay Safe !!!!

Fascinating documentary. So much hard work. The European Reverchon tracks seem a lot less labour intensive though with far more components folding out.

Ohhh i would love to clean that machine 😮. I would never stop. Love it .all the best from perth Scotland.

As kids we never had seat belts or restraints, back in the 60s more face plants and black eyes. 🤣🤣

I would’ve really like to have seen it at night and running. But very awesome. I cannot believe they can compact that much stuff into one small space. Technology. Thank you for the video.

I like to see how rides get set up there's a carnival in my town this weekend I love carnivals

I'm never gonna look at bumper car rides the same again. I never knew how much work went into setting up the ride

I really enjoyed this video, and I hope to see you do other rides too. I used to work for show that were local and my very first ride was a gas engine Loop o Plane and Funtastic Shows in Portland Oregon still uses it. Now called Wild thang. Thanks Darren.

awsome video.. i wish theyed bring back. small town carnvals like they had back in the 60s 70s..

Lol, these guys have it made nowadays. Everything we setup back years ago was called ground mounts. We called it pig iron for a reason. All metal, nothing but hard Manuel back breaking labor.

Amazing!!!

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this. What a masterpiece and a beautiful build too. Thanks for posting this as well. Have a nice day.

Could you please do a complete setup of your spider ride/ astro ride/ I see on your website that you have a osbation whell 84f would like to see a set up of those rides😊keep up the great work.

Our fair used to have a smaller version of bumper cars. Not an easy ride to keep on the road.

having worked on the bumper cars as teen and having to build the entire arena from floor up, this looks like a breeze :)

Wow. Fascinating. Please keep these videos coming. I can barely remember as a child in the early 60's watching a small show set up every year in my village. EVERYTHING they had was ground mount: Eli wheel, Frolic, wooden swings, chair swings, carousel... One year they had a bumper car ride and it came on one, probably two vans. The floor supports were wooden beams, leveled on blocks just like you do (except for the laser level.) The floor was 4 x 8 wood frames with metal plates attached and they fitted together on the floor beams. The posts and scenery were all painted wood and the covering was classic brown canvas that must have weighed a ton. I don't recall how it was powered but all their other pieces had gasoline engines that drove cables or belts.

awesome , i watched the entire setup, WOW, a Lot of work, but that's very cool, i wish i was there to either help, or just take a bumper car ride, LOL very interesting to say the least, great job to All.

That one sweet looking Peterbuilt you driving

Looks like Dover raceway. Though I saw Miles the mascot in background. Great job. Very interesting

I like it a lot and it's one of my favorite fairground rides and what I'm seeing are the bumper cars

I was a transporter and solo crew of a shorter, single-axel version of your bumper car ride. A couple of issues I have is with your initial dropping of the ride of the truck. 1.) When dropping the airbags, the way you drop them leaves them potentiality chaffing, pinching, and blowing out going down the road. What I did was, while still hooked up to the trailer, back it up 4-6 inches past the mark, engage the trailer brake, release the cab, put blocking under the rear hydraulic plates with the blocks at least 4 inches in front of the tires, release the air from the rear, and let the trailer naturally roll forward seating on the blocks. 2.) For the goose-neck, don't drop it until you level and square up the main frame. This will reduce twisting the bars and arms of the platform to ensure it goes up and is seated properly for transport too. Speaking of dropping the neck, you don't block the front of this frame, thus risking the kingpin integrity and twisting the arms too. Minimize the movement of the heavy parts. I like how you have the steps to the utility box. That's something I never thought of installing, but that was also where the leads for the ride sat in transit for me. You also didn't mention brushing the wire-wheel being brushed out, or if you use some type of protection for the outer tubes of the tires on the cars. I used Talcum Powder and water to paint the outside of the tires to prevent gripping and ripping of tread. If you have any questions from my perspective, feel free to contact me.

A lovely job of work there harder than it seems, the forklift came in handy. I guess after setting up this ride it's all second nature but every time its still hard work though, very hard. One last thing, congratulations on buying this ride it must have cost a small fortune to get it made and supplied, it's good to entertain people though no matter how it's done. I just loved the Dogem cars when we went to the fairground in England..........

Banged up 😂

Wow this was incredible! What a task to set it all up!! I’ll have a new appreciation when I go to the Anne Arundel Co Fair, Maryland in a few weeks (Jolly). Also, loved the music during the roof install - made me think of the movie Oceans 11.

Awesome Video loved it

All that on one trailer. Pretty damn cool

That's alot alot of work it takes to eet up theses rides. Maybe for a week or just a few days.

This is so much more work, and so much less work than I would have imagined somehow. Haha

This a very fun flat ride. I am 6 ' 7". When i ride the bumper cars i have to push the pedal with my hand.

am in europe so its kinda fun to see a american bumper car ride build up, im just surprised it isnt self contained. like you guys need a forklift or such to build it. europe theyrefully self contained and only need a truck to pull it but everything is build in so the ride itself has winches and hydraulic rams to do lifting and whatnot where needed

My god you have it easy now all aluminium, not like the old days when it was all timber, and hand balled. If you were to put a rounded point on the end of the lower pick up on the car you would never get it wrong easy to do take out spigot drill a hole in the top put a thread in the hole then have a threaded dome that goes in the top. both could be retro fitted.

I love the bumper cars I just subscribed 😊

very interesting compeered to the European versions of these rides as most European rides remove there axels and sit on the floor

Still a lot of lifting work for a foldable dodgem. We have several brands here in Europe that build foldable dodgem tracks, like adesco, bertazzon or gosetto. We build up with 3 persons in 4 hours. And build down record with 3 persons is 90 minutes with an adesco dodgem with 24 cars. Our cars go in the pulling truck bcs roof, net and lightpackage fold automaticly on to the trailer.

Explaining that for a green or a mark makes it seem so much more difficult than it really is. I've slaughed this for midway of fun, Butler, Belle City, and 3 other companies, as well as quite a few other rides over a 13 year period.

As someone who has done outdoor manual labor for the vast majority of his life, rebuilding and remodeling houses, I do believe I would get sick of doing this over and over again really fast. Could there not be some sorta screw jack system?

worked for a carnival in the mi 70's and their bumper cars was a manual assembly tooks hours to put up there was 3 rides that were hydralic assemblied the rock o plane, octopuss, and the tilt o whril there was a lot of manual back breaking work invovled

As a person of larger size, I hate the lap bars. Don't know about your ride. But i used to love the one's at the cider point. Then they updated the cars with the bars and now I can't ride. Luckily some older parks still have the shoulder restaurants. One size doesn't fit all unfortunately.

Few people realize how much work, attention to detail, and teamwork is required to set up a safe and operable ride. Really fascinating to see the engineering that goes into such machines. Question: how would you acquire/receive a part (like a relay) when you're on the road? Or are they common enough that you could pick them up at the local Grainger or McMaster-Carr? Thanks for the video and your dedication to safety!

Spent an hour watching this and never saw the lights turned on or the cars in action.

QUESTIONS ⁉️ 1st What's the total weight of the truck & trailer. 2nd Do you have to get a permit when traveling through different US states. 3rd Do you have to go through more truck driving training than just having your CDL. 4th Did you have any input on the design of your Bumper Car Trailer. 5th Are you more likely to be pulled over by State Police then your everyday truck driver. Also, what got you to want to pull around Bumper Cars in your later years in life. Badass semi. Just curious thanks 👍 🇺🇲

You know if you took little of lubricant oil around your locking pin for your stairs. Pin would slide so much easier into place.

I don't think I'd have the patience to have to setup and take down a ride I presume on avarage at least once a week like this.

I'm surprised the floor doesn't use spindles instead of blocks

Last bumper cars I rode, I noticed that between ride cycles, they would remove a contact wheel from a car, and clean it with a wire wheel to keep as many cars running as they could. You didn’t mention that as a routine maintenance for your’s, so I’m wondering if they were pulling too many amps, not keeping the contact grid clean enough, or what else could be causing a buildup that would break contact.

You want a kolmax plus or supercar set, this what you have got is very labour intensive lots of heavy lifting and its not even that big! The European folding sets are the way forward 2 men can build up in 3 hours. Nice video tho!!!😁👍

Wish I would have known you guys were in the vicinity, Id like to meet up with you folks some day.

Have you seen the one load Dodgems built by Kollmax plus & CBK everything on it folds including the tilt.

One of the best videos on the web. Fascinating to watch. What would we do without hydraulics? This is also true in the farming industry.. Thanks for a very good presentation.

46:21 R.I.P. to that glass bulb

done well, could of used more help unloading cars...and screens....but very good job.... its not a 1 man job.... working together makes it so much smoother.

WOW!

The bags on rear of the ride should be and need to be deflated before ever unhooking from the semi…. Ask Vince if not convinced…

Your video is so intelligent and clear. Well done. If someone had a private party could you increase the car speed?

Wanted to see it work 😢

Was with it for 15 years. I've set this up many a times.

Great video but 1 thing is missing.......you didn't show them running at the end.

I have always been curios about the voltage used in bumper cars. I would assume its a 48 volt DC system? I noticed you mentioned each car has a 30 amp breaker in it. So if my math is correct, each car can pull up to 1440 watts (if running on 48 volts) It looks like you have 16 cars, so running flat out will be pulling 23040 Watts. I think you also mentioned the generator outputs 400 amps, so at 48 volts would be capable of outputting 19200 Watts. So I assume my hunch of 48 volts might be correct?

I set up a sixty by forty ground mount scooter didn't have a trailer mount ride

the OLD SCHOOL bumper cars that I worked with had no such luxuries .... with the crew we had for the thing It could be built up in 2 hours ... plus we where in Scotland where it rains on average 312 days a year

I wonder how long it took them to put that all together and to tear it all the way down

As you and those with you are so experienced with this ride, how does this work. Is the fair the owner of the ride, and pay you to haul around and maintain for a season, or is this particular ride something you have invested in, and lease the use of it to a particular time, and they also pay you to haul for them and maintain?

Any video of operation at night

How many hours does it take to set this particular ride up? Sorry if you mentioned it in the video if I missed it. There is a lot to setting this ride up but it looks grand after its set up. Thanks for sharing.

You don't need a laser level just a normal level

How many hours to build this masterpiece?

Very informative. What happens if there isn't a forklift to assist you in assembly? In other words, is a forklift required for that aspect of assemby?

What would the cost of a new Bumper Car similar to your operation?

wow...that seems like alot of work.....precise work........how much monies do you get for the events?....

is it bult in the USA or Europe?, Big engineering, all in 1 Car.

Why didn’t they build the trailer with rear steer that would help with getting around corners.

this is really cool! That is a lot of bracing and metal to have lying around though! Where do you store all the bracing for travel while the ride is unfolded? I assume under the floor?

I always wondered what the voltage was for the bumper cars. I thought it would be 12 volts DC with 12 VDC motors in the cars The top ceiling being all mesh with the metal spring loaded arm to pick up the voltage and the metal floor being the ground to complete the circuit. I thought it could not be more than 12 volts because if someone were to stand up and make contact between the ceiling and floor, 12 volts would not be able to pass through the person enough to cause harm. Can anyone confirm this ? The amp draw must he huge though for it to run 20 car motors. I am thinking 800 amps DC for a 40 amp DC motor at 12 volts I don't think anything smaller would be enough to get the torque and speed. A 100 amp 120 volt source or a 50 amp 240 volt source converted down to 12 volts A small generator would do that