Secrets of the Sizzler Setup: From Flatbed to Fun 

Visiting the carnival grounds to see a few more rides set up. This time we are focusing on the Sizzler Ride setup. Watch them set up the Gravitron Next! ▶ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WuHfg-UIsSw.html

I cannot imagine assembling and disassembling this ride over and over. NOT a job for anyone who does not want to work hard in all kinds of weather, day and night. I salute all of these workers. Thanks Pete for the VERY interesting video!

Just came across this channel on RU-vid. I think it is awesome to see how they set up all these rides. When I was a kid I couldn’t wait for the local carnivals to come to town so I could ride my bike down there and watch them set up. I remember how long(or so it seemed) to set them up but when the carnival was over it was all down like overnight

The way the trailer frame is lowered to the ground reminds me of a Huss Breakdance 3 I used to setup and take down in Germany frequently almost 20 years ago. The trailer was not a semitrailer like this, but also had a front axle. There were four hydraulic jacks built into the trailer that took the weight off the wheels, then you were able to remove both the front and rear axle assemblies and lower the remainder of the frame on the ground (though we would usually put wooden blocks between the frame and the ground, which also ensured it being level. Like most fair rides designed before the 2000s, it was not contained on one trailer, but there was a second trailer carrying half the tubs, all decking, fences, ticket/operator booth and so forth. Since half the tubs needed to be removed and loaded onto the other trailer, you had to have a crane to set it up, but the small folding "loading crane" we had on the truck was sufficient for that work. I haven't setup a ride in many years, but I still find it fascinating to watch how they unfold...

Would be Interesting to see the Three-Phase Power Plant used to Operate the Rides, Lights, Concessions, etc. Thanks! 👍

Of course the Spanish guys are laughing and smiling while they work. They are the greatest workers, and people to work with, on earth. I’ve never seen a Spanish guy on a construction site complain or have a bad attitude.

I loved the scrambler as a kid

More videos like this, please! Really cool to watch…especially with the narrative explaining the process!

This is really interesting! I worked as a rides operator at a theme park here in the UK years back. I must admit, I've never seen a sizzler ride on the ground like this, mind you, in the UK that grass would be mud after a day, so that's probably why lol.

This ride was my favourite as a kid.

Really great stuff and so cool to finally see how it’s done! I know you wouldn’t take the time to do this if you weren’t equally interested, but thanks for the effort and for sharing it with the rest of us!

The Sizzler made by Wisdom Industries in Colorado are known for trailer mounted rides. Would love to see you do a set up video my old time favorite Tilt-A-Whirl by Sellner Manufacturing. In my younger years I was a local hired help carnie for carnivals in town and my favorite ride set up was the Tilt! Thanks Pete!

The Sizzler/Scrambler, the Himalayan and the Gravitron were my 3 favorites as a kid. I was sorely disappointed of they weren't all there. I always wondered at how it took a week to set up for the fair but when it closed, it was gone the next day. lol I used to beg my parents to let me watch them being set up but they'd never go for it. I'm too old for the fair, these days, but I can finally watch the setup.

Very Kool..Love how easy it set's up. I use to set up a ground mount Scrambler for years. 👍♥️😃

These videos are so interesting and relaxing

As someone trying to create a new ride concept just for fun, these videos are awesome. Although I already know somes rides set up, watching the process altrought gives many ideas. Really impressive to see how engineers can fit a 60feet-diameter ride onto a 8ft-wide trailer. So, thank to you and to these guys that set the rides up. (sorry for my English)

Great video Pete. I could watch these all day. Please consider posting the take down videos as well. Can’t wait to see more on your ride projects.

Love this little series. Just to mention, it seems like most of these units (usually named 'Twister') have a base in the UK. As in, they'd be sat flat on the ground grasscutter but would still have a metal platform under the entire ride. Might need to do some personal digging to see where the extras are stored but alas. So cool to see.

Nice video. Sharp ride with all the lights. Nice to see the E-Stop on the control panel. The crew was all business

Thank you so much for taking the time to go these setup videos, they are fantastic, I'm binge watching all of them. Thank you for your time and work, Pete

The Octopus is one of the oldest and dirtiest jobs setting up and tear it down. Love these videos, would love to see more.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day now.

Always was and will be my favorite flat ride. Thanks for posting this!

Can't wait to ride the sizzler next week at the county fair

What a great channel. Just subscribed...and the Sizzler/Scrambler is one of my all time favorites. It was so cool watching the set-up and I guess it travels on its' own truck! Thank you for creating, uploading and sharing!!!! 😊👍👌

I worked with a show that had a lot of ground mount rides including a ground mount scrambler damn it was nuts setting them up and tearing them down!

When I worked a show in games, they had one and all ride jocks work to get this ride up in an day.

I love this stuff. As a kid I went to the park while they were setting rides up to watch. I like your videos because you explain everything and the production values are high.

I really like your videos it's very interesting how they set the rides up

That was awesome, thanks Pete for sharing.

Very cool Pete. Thanks for sharing.

Another great video, love carnival setup videos.

Just found your channel. Love it! I grew up next to a family that owned a carnival and it was awesome!!!

love these!

Great video...and great way to wake up on a Saturday morning. Thank you Pete.

This stuff is awesome! I've always wanted to see how this is done. Thank you.

Love the Sizzler awesome video

Awesome indeed. I have seen so many of these rides put up and taken down. Used to help with the Carnival gigs back in Panama for MWR. Ran through the gig twice a year.

In Brazil we have very few units of this equipment, I believe that not even half is mounted on the ground, like the one in the video. All were modified to be mounted on top of the trailer itself, without any boards, literally on top. It has worked, in addition to making assembly faster.

Like I said on FB, I really enjoy the buildup (and your ride renovation) videos and wish there was more ones of your quality on YT. Thanks! Looking forward to the Gravitron build video

The lights on this ride are how I like them. Just basic bulbs with a color cap over them. None of those fancy RGB LED lights that I hate the sight of.

Absolutely am loving these videos. Been fascinated with figuring out how racked rides are setup since I was a kid. It’s fantastic they let you spend so much time filming and getting so many great shots. Do you have any plans to add more videos in time? Would love to see the Tilt A Whirl, Octopus, Casino/Wipeout setup should you ever encounter them. Thanks again for the great content!

I'd love to see the Bullet ride setup. I always missed setup of the rides during the carnivals yearly in my hometown, so this is awesome!

one of my fav rides.

man there is a a lot of time spent designing those rides. interesting watching the setup

Great video the sizzler is my favorite

This is a lot easier these days, back in the late 90' we use to put this ride together piece by piece off the dry van trailer instead of already mounted trailer. It was called scrambler then.

Please do more of these set up videos!!

Agree, very well engineered.....not much to get lost.

Thanks for the info. The Scrambler is my favorite carnival ride, but I didn’t know it was an Eli Bridge product! Now I love it even more. The Sizzler feels about the same and is more visually appealing, but I still prefer the Scrambler. 😊

Another great video. This is another one I used to setup. One of the simplest, yet fun to ride. In the future, can you add how long it takes to setup the rides and ask them how long it takes to tear them down? Great video and commentary.

That is GREAT! So cool to see. Answered the exact question I had. How do they get that whole ride flat on the ground so it can cut grass!

These videos are fascinating! I would love to see some on setting up the really big rides.

Great video! Hope to see more like this! I have a lego Mixer and it's neat how it sets up and racks almost identical to this except the trailer is not on the ground. I may alterate it......I appreciate your videos very much. You do a great job and I just wanted you to know it is much appreciated!

This is great watching set up,would like to see how more rides are set up&put away.

I love this

Found your next project. 😂 Kids would love it.

New to the channel.Great video very interesting too.Thanks

What a great set up if you can find the classic hurricane or downdraft would be great :D

Really cool video. Love seeing carnival rides and how they all go together. What would be amazing (if you have the capabilities to) is to have another camera set to the side showing the whole area recording the whole time. Then at the end of the video do a time lapse of the whole thing. Just a thought.

I always thought it would be fun to travel pulling one of these around and setting it up. it just seems like you have to know some one in the business to get into it

Funfair rides are very interesting when u you set them up

Anyone who’s assembled the Lego Fairground mixer set can fully appreciate this video

I Love that Ride Specialy At Night.

We have 2 sizzlers Our guys always use the transport van to run the hydraulic pumps lol must be common practice

This is so unusual design. I would never expect the main frame to be just laid flat on the ground. What would the crew do when setting up on a slope? Another concern of mine is frame bending. You can see quite significant frame flex in many shots.

Every time I go to the white county fair this was VERY first ride me and my sister gets on

All these guys must be fantasic as assembleing kids riding touys and prefab furniture in the box... Also I'm sure origami is sinple for them... lol

We also have a sizzler in the uk with the deck, and we also have a twister which is pretty much the same thing

need one for that 1001 Nights type ride i see in the background!

that thing is neat, ive only been on the scrambler. One thing I have been curious about with some scramblers is the motor is way out by the operator and has a long drive shaft, Always made me wonder something, were some models engine powered for places that did not have ready generator access?

Do you ever come across those old "man handler" Tilt a Whirls? I'd LOVE to see one of those go together. Or the old Toboggan carnival coasters. I've actually been a part of that but it's been a long time and I'd watch a video of it.

Lol done that a few times back in the day 👍

Quite impressive how short the trailer is when it's folded up. Other types of Twist are much longer.

Cool video. A lot of these machines in the UK are made by PWS rides.

Interesting!

These guys are one fine tuned Group who gets the Work Done without any discussion. Everyone knows their Jobs. Thanks! 👍

Extraordinary engineering to get that assembly process to work. I wonder how long it took to develop it. I haven't been near anything like this for 40 years or more so this new to me. Of course I was never near a setup process. A lot of work to make some kids dizzy. These must cost a fortune and similarly earn a fortune too. It would be interesting to know what the cost and yield of this investment would be.

Please keep making these. Next time please do KMG Freak Out, Wisdom Rides Gravitron, or ARM Rockstar, if you can .

thats so cool keep make on making mote videos and thia one is Cool it one of my favorites

Very cool video. I always thought the Sizzler was one of the most efficiently racked rides. I'd love to see a Scrambler set up video sometime and compare as I imagine a Scrambler is a lot more tedious and involved.

Hi Pete Beau from Australia have you ever removed the centre bearing for the centre

how much time does it took to setup the ride

Each different type of this ride is a different experience like the scrambler feels more forceful than the sizzler

In the uk they were called grass cutters, until the fulled up ones arrived.

What makes the sweeps of four tubs each rotate? Chains or belts presumably?

Can you please make a video about the ARM rockstar or alibaba in the background please

Hi your videos are great! I have never commented on a video before. I have watched all your videos and I too have a few carnival rides I am restoring. In fact I just went to Maine last week to pick up an antique airplane ride. I have always been fascinated by carnival rides Garbrick in particular (the Garbrick's are actually friends of mine) I must be very close to where you are located I'm in Highspire (just outside of Harrisburg) I would very much like to connect with you if possible. Thanks!

I love the rides that are basically all one package just folded up rather than individual pieces that have to be assembled from scratch. The engineering involved in designing a "fold up" ride is so satisfying.

I miss working for the carnival

Wait.... Majestic Midways at least the one I know is located right in my York County PA where I live. If this is the same one that's cool

Any tilt a whirl assembly?

My ride is behind it. I set up the Flying Carpet/Rainbow/Whatever it's called for 4 seasons

Curious on how much these rides cost and how much maintenance they actually get. Also, how much does it cost to transport and set up? One of my favorite carnival rides is probably the easiest to set up, the hammerhead ride. I remember my state fair had one made out of a tractor.

I wish they'd replace any burned out bulbs on their rides, need to keep the rides well lit at night by making sure all of the lights on the rides are working, and that there are no burned out bulbs

Interesting how about do a ride by Fabbri group called hard rock it’s a whirling dervish ride kind of like u would c at roller coaster tycoon 3 but this exists at carnivals even state fairs

one of my favorite rides to ride while stoned out of my mind on edibles

Portable ride worry me. Rode zipper for the last time a few years ago. The ride op walked away with some girls and had us going full speed for like 15 mins. Idk how he didnt get arrested . The carnival was literary on the city police station property .

i hear people complain about ride prices ...now ill show them your vids so they can see the amount that gose into them and how much stuff it is moving around the country

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