Queen's University student David Chesney took four years to put the 12-foot tall and 92-foot long wooden construction together in his backyard in Toronto.
The 19-year-old, who studies engineering, has named the thrill ride "The Minotaur" and says the steel car can ride at speeds of 20 km/h.
He assembled the rollercoaster using bits of scrap wood from his home and tools he borrowed from his uncle.
And the steel car he made after acquiring the know-how from working at a metal door factory last summer.
“My dad didn’t like the idea at all from the beginning,” Chesney explained to the Toronto Star. “Mom was kinda, ‘Uhhhh, I guess so.’ I don’t think that either of them understood the scope of what I had in mind.”
(Facebook)Eventually, Chesney managed to put together a ride assembled from 28m of steel-plated wooden track with two 3.6m drops.
“It just got bigger,” he added. “Then it got to the point where my parents said 'it’s huge but you’ve gotten this far so just finish it and then take it down after.’ ”
The ride even has its own Facebook page, which Chesney has used to upload photographs of his construction.
But its days may be numbered as his parents have now asked for the ride to be removed.
“My dad wants it out of the by the end of the summer but I don’t really want to take it down so I’m trying to find a new home for it,” he says.
“It’s a pretty cool thing to have and I don’t want to see it turn it into a scrap pile.”
It's not the first time someone has gone very DIY in their own back garden.
Earlier this year, a man from California wanted to make his son's dream of having a coaster at their home come true so he built a 180ft long one.
The project cost $500 more than Chesney’s at $3,500 but has suffered a few problems as it crashed on the third time it went round the track.
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I find this article ver funny and interesting. Is good to see how young people uses their learnt knowledge to make things they find interesting or make challenges for themselves. We have to admit that not all of us know how to do a rollercoaster but many of us would like to have one in our backyard.
ReplyDeleteIt´s incredible how much imagination a young person could have. With only some wood and tools from home he could built such a good rollercoaster in his backyard but also he would have to work hard to make his wish. They shoulndn´t break that rollercoaster to show people where you can arrive because of a simple wish.
ReplyDeleteIt is fantastic to see how a teenager can create a roller coaster with only some scrap! With this kind of news we can see that with determination and working hard you can do what you wish. I also find interesting that he used the things he learnt in a metal door factory.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how a 19 years old boy created a rollercoaster in his own garden with very few materials. It sows as that if we really want to do something what we only need is a little bit of imagination and patience and we can achieve our goals.
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