Rotating Gazebo Always Provides Fresh Views

Rotating Gazebo Always Provides Fresh Views AG WORLD 31-1-22 When Walter Rodler stopped renting out his portable merry-go-round due to liability concerns, he found a new use for it. He built a gazebo on it. Now he can tow the gazebo to wherever he wants and never get tired of the view. If the sun is in his face, all he has to do is spin the gazebo around so the sun is at his back. If he doesn't like the view, he pulls it to a new location. "My father-in-law and I built the merry-go-round using a 10-ton hub off a semi trailer axle," explains Rodler. "We mounted it on an old Chevy axle." When he decided to turn it into a gazebo, he attached two one-ton trailer jacks to stabilize it. "I reinforced the original bed before covering it with wood for the gazebo floor to make it 8 sided with a diameter of about 12 ft.," says Rodler. The old merry-go-round had a pipe railing with eight uprights. Rodler used the railing posts as starting points for his 8-sided gazebo. All the wood was home sawn and from his own woods. Three stools made from yellow birch and about 20-in. high are attached to the floor of the Gazebo. They sit around a table in the center that is attached to the axle of the base hub and doesn't rotate, but sits just above the floor. By pushing on the stationary table he can rotate the gazebo from the inside. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Walter Rodler, P.O. Box 695 Plains Rd., Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada B0M 1G0 (ph 902 662-3213; swrodler@eastlink.ca).

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