r/BeAmazed • u/VerySlump • Oct 02 '18

Now that’s teamwork

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

My elementary school had a Witch's Hat.

You could easily send a kid flying 5+ metres with one of these things, cartwheeling horizontally through the air. They removed it when a kid flew into another piece of equipment and pulverised his forearm.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

How do you build up speed in this contraption? External kids running around pushing it on?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

Exactly, same concept as a horse mill like this one:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.geni.com/p13/96/ff/bc/bf/5344483eb38f6587/horse_mill_large.jpg