Our Land Slide was a great success

By admin | Published July 29, 2010
slide construction

Tim Corcoran, Roger Lauen and Dale Spoor set up the Land Slide.

The “Land Slide” we built for the annual Harvest Festival at Johnson Farm in September was a great success. Each 20 seconds or so, a visitor rode the slide down a long hillside, with much hooting and grinning along the way.

Because of its popularity, the apparatus has evolved into a pair of slides, each about 60 feet long. The slides are 20-foot-long sections of 18-inch pipe raised up in the air by supports made of plywood and framing. Friends of the Farms, the non-profit organization that manages the Johnson Farm for the city, asked us to build the wooden support structure for this year’s event. Dale Spoor, a board member, coordinated the work and supervision of the slides during the event.

slide in a action

A fun time was had by all.

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