People don't Appreciate how much work and time to build a fair. Cool i love the lego twister.

Definitely would like to see more of these videos. It is amazing just how much hard work goes into building these rides. I don't think people appreciate just how much needs doing.

Absolutely fantastic vlog we need more build ups please the showman work so hard to make a living it's true dedication

Spent 5 years of my life travelling with rembelances waltzer, greatest time of my life without a doubt. Never winched cars out, just lifted them out by hand and the girders also.

Hopefully when people watch vlogs like this it will spurn them on to support there local funfairs.

I love these videos 😊

brill what a refreshing take on things before the fair starts and with it being up early people will know to visit, pull downs are great watched hull fair one last year amazing

I love the friendship you have with the lads & ladies at the fairs, you’re the only vlogger I know with this sort of relationship 👍🏽

I'm from a small town in Iowa and me and my brother absolutely loved watching ride builds at our Corn Festival every year... !!! We ended up being Musicians which basically involved setup , teardown and a show... my brother eventually had a mini donut stand on midways. . Absolutely Love Your Content.. and kudos to Your young boy..

Keep doing these! My full family have just sat and watched this and they think its great! Well done!

Keep up these build up.vlogs.by far the best vlogs.and it's nice to see a family fun fair that allow you to see behind the scenes

great video its amazing to see how they build up the rides

I looked forward to this vlog and I was not disappointed it was great, and like you say people don't realise what work goes into setting up all the rides, thanks for showing us :)

it is amazing how much work goes into the prep....and to put up and teardown every week.

Hi Dave great in site to the hard work involved in put up the fair .keep em coming

I told you this before on one of your newer vids . But I used to be a fair ground lad way back and this vid is AWESOME takes me back so far .thanks

I love these build up videos very much appreciated. The transformation is amazing

It's nice to no what happens before these rides start operating. All the work that goes in to the fair. I am injoying this video.

Brilliant vlog so cool seeing behind the scenes of the showmans

We don't see many ride build vlogs here in the States. REALLY ENJOYING these, and Thank You for doing them !

Miss u doing these😢

This is so cool Dave, really interesting to see, love the mini cranes to build up the coaster and Waltzers 👍🏻

I’d love to come and see them build up the rides in person. Always been a little fascinated! 👍🏾

I imagine being a kid getting to hang out there must be unbelievably cool

Really good vlog love the footage of build ups

This is a great video mate, really appreciate you taking the time to film this - it brings back so many memories of watching the lads and ladies set up the fair brhind my house every year as a kid in the 90s, I always wanted to do this as a job but alas 'twas not meant to be!

In the eighties a group of us friends would help set the travelling fairs up. I used to help put the Waltzers and the Octopus up. We all got unlimited fair rides for helping. The Octopus was the same type of Carters one. I feel old now. Good video Dave.

I used to work at a swedish traveling funfair, going around scandinavia. I can tell you, it's a tough job! Some of the hardest work I've done in my life, but really fun and rewarding - except the money-part. Pays shit.

Great to appreciate all the hard work put into these rides ! Well done fabulous video

Yea Man I really enjoyed this one... glad I found it thanks for sharing. I enjoy this side of the fair

about 3 years ago I when to the Carters Steam fair while they were setting up, little that I knew that one of the workers was one of my dad's mates and boy what a great day out for me!

i love it so happy you did this vlog mate

Thank you for uploading people dont no how much work gos into it

Great video ☺

Some interesting footage in this video, especially the behind the scenes Ghost Train walkthrough, which is fascinating to see being a more traditional design, rather than the Roller Ghoster type, so almost everything has to be placed or built. Hopefully, videos like this will help the average person that visits a fair get to appreciate the clever design and engineering that allows most rides these days to fold up on a trailer, but also the massive amount of work involved behind the scenes building up & pulling down the rides for us to enjoy.

Great vid matey, love vids like this!, ive helped build a waltzer and dodgems( a old wood build!).......bloody hard work!!. Its good that you've highlighted what goes on before opening day/night. All the best matey.

Love this video slothys, shows how the lads and the showmen build up the rides, very hard work! but very rewarding and fun. I've had a go myself about 20 years ago. Parts are heavy and awkward to shift, we built up a maxwell speedway, I miss that ride. All that work has to be done in a day or so, older wooden flat rides take longer to build up, modern metal flat rides pull out (most with hydraulic rams) and fold up and only need a few bits bolted together. Most twist cars are made up of 2 bits I believe, the seat and the front section and bars are bolted together to save space on the lorries in transit. That hotel of terror truck is an ERF "E Series", most showmen used ERF and Foden lorries. I miss the smell and sound of the Gardner engines on the fair that powered the rides. Would love to see more build up videos, hopefully a better season for the showmen in 2021

Just come across this vlog and finding it really fascinating.

I used to do all that a few year's back done it for Jame's Roger's & Jame's Miller's For Funderworld Also Burt Holland & Few Other's used to build all the big ride's so know how that feel's as soon as the fair shut's the pull down start's in all weather as need to get to the next location :)

Yeah well impressed guy's, keep up the great work that u all do

Love it Dave its quite interesting to watch x

Excellent footage Dave do enjoy a pull on and build up. I was watching the Silcocks lads building the freak out up the other week took them 2 hrs just to level the machine out.

Slothy, just found your channel a few days ago after discovering your friend's channel (UK Theme Parks). I love your content but this build up video is one of the most interesting. I used to visit carnivals as they were being set up and more times then not, the staff would get irritated that someone was watching and photographing them. You seem to get on much better with the staff which is really priceless. I really liked the ghost train walk through. Years ago I was friendly with a traveling ghost train operator and I got to walk though it and trouble shoot miss-firing tricks which was really fun. I'm also really impressed with how you have a whole crew of impressive friends who love carnivals as much as you do. In America no one cares about carnivals in this way and you won't find another person who likes them this much. A big problem with the USA is that its so spread out, in the UK everything is compact so traveling and meeting like minded people is likely far easier.

I loved watching it. Thank you so much for doing it too

Love the mini ride great vlog well done slothy

Very good Dave i enjoyed yr blog, its an eye opener.

They work hard fair people in all kinds of weather. The ghost train was interesting to see during the day. I got a behind the scenes tour of alien wars years ago.

Lads brilliant footage. A must see for you guys would be carter's steam/ funfairs there all original fun fair rides 60s/70s

New sub. Enjoying the content 👍🏻

Brilliant to see the ghost train Like that great video!

Pulled downs alot quicker but still hard i know ive help pull down the waltzer when i was in my 20's fair mad then now im quite happy watching your vlogs as dont have the stomach any more😭

how I miss watching this being done so cool

Cool behind the scenes footage

please could you do another video like thus

Great Vlog mate it just seems so long ago but absolutely love it .I'm sat here watching it and my wife has just said .what you watching that rubbish for !! and She's a Soap Yawn Fan lol they don't understand .thanks for the Vlog

great vlog,,great work,,any one with a passion for fun fairs loves the build up,,have you seen the build up on a new fair trade waltzer?? half the work now

LOVE THIS,,

I have done a few build up's and pull downs with A&R, it's true what you said that a lot of people don't realise the hard work that goes into building the rides up, great fun tho, just subscribed to your channel :-)

And there's also a place in Wales that is a museum with all rides still being used as you pay to go in and see a lot of very old machines deffo a good day out

Hi Dave (maybe a touch too formal as we don’t know each other, ha), only discovered your channel recently and your content is mint. Thank you for taking the time to vlog for us to enjoy in your fairground experiences. I wouldn’t dare get on some of the rides you and Simon get on. I’d be bricking it! 😂

Bet u get to know the showmen?! They seem friendly ☺️. People don't realise how hard they work

love it mate ill be there at 5pm till 8pm

Great behind the scenes video I'm trying to do things a bit different also to create interest and you done great job keep it going

Hello from Ashland Wisconsin we do have fairs up here

keep it coming bro i enjoy the videos

Love the video i will love to see a pull down one

Great vlog, some ride have to have so much detail I have a different side of funfairs. Great video, well done mate.

Only just started watching your vlogs mate keep up the great content:)

Nice video for us Amusement nuts ! Wish we had some Waltzers floating around in the states

I have the same Lego ride at the start 😂

You should ask them about the history etc... origin of the rides, and stats for the rides...etc It is definitely interesting seeing a couple of guys put a roller coaster together by hand! Seems all a lot of hard work... How many locations do they do a year etc? How many in their whole crew etc...

That thing is well cool I luv your vids so much ❤️💕

you should do a full uncut waltzer build that would be interesting. there setting up the fair here in runcorn right now open tomorrow at 5

Great video! New subscriber gained 😁👍

Wow nice to see behind the scenes!! Can you do full behind the scenes ghost train build up?!? Maybe you could try the road to hell ghost train!

You need to come to hull fair this year

I used to work on the Waltzers to build up and pull down hard work

the show I worked for the owner was a great man and boss I wish I could have worked longer for him we became good friends in a professional standpoint

I have just come back from a weekend In Chiswick. Working then Pulling Down the Waltzer, Dodgems, Twister, Inflatables Twice the Size Of this one. And there was only 6 of Us. And I am 61 In 2019.

Very interesting Dave! Loved this vlog

This is so interesting

awesome seeing inside a ghost train!

Funfair Build up, Behind The Scenes - Slothy Vlogs love louis shirley

Yea do do a pull down vlog it will be amazing

Wow awesome to see it get built The ghost train looks s scary

Dave u want a waltzer with wooden hills and are big is richmonds lazerblazer good ride and very good spins

nice vid slothy

Come down to Marlow or Windsor fair and you will see me there

Hi Dave. Been only following your channel for a short while and loving the content. Video was really interesting. Shows the side of the fair people don't usually see - lots of hard work involved. Would be interesting if you did a documentary style video on the history or more technical details of the rides. Anyway keep up the great work and thanks for all the videos!

I love fun fairs

I once helped build the ark that belongs to Terry Storey and I was never paid for the few days of hard graft and I’m not blaming the owners for that!, respect to the lads who are building the fair, just don’t fall for the trick that I did. It wasn’t fun and it definitely wasn’t fair but I still got taken for a ride? I think that you have got a good hobby but it’s not as good as the row of hobbies that are behind the rides, top showmen always have a good white and blue hobby to live in

The twister has been built by PWS rides the sizzler has been built by wisdom ride and the scrambler has been built by Eli bridge

well into this brilliant cheers. subbed

Great vid mate 👍 any chance you would do a Banbury pull around I think October?

You need to travel to the Lancashire section watch them showmen build up and pull down.

The fair is cool and fun

These videos of you are so cool :) I love the lego model,its Teens here btw :D

The man that was setting up the waltzers in the blue top I saw him at tadley treacle fair.

👌 Fantastic to see the dedication people do to keep their lifestyle alive 👏

A couple of decent Facebook pages. Funfair enthusiasts and fun fair pull on and build up pics.