ThrillNetwork member 2for2true remembers Wheel Burrow at Six Flags Over Georgia. Wheel Burrow was a Chance Tumbler that ran at the park from 1968 to 1970.

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I wish I could have been around to ride it. It sounds like a pretty insane ride. I guess the ride had a low capacity if the ride was seven minutes.
It sounds like Wheelie, which sits in the same spot Wheel Burrow did, on steroids.

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Reminds me of a double version of an old carnival ride in which the name escapes me. But hey this is probably of great interest to ya. WHEEL BURROW ride SIX FLAGS OVER GEORGIA, Atlanta PHOTO - eBay (item 380110311768 end time Sep-08-09 18:37:43 PDT)

This is great. I've always been fascinated by the way the Wheel Burrow looked. The structure was so monstrous, especially for a flat ride back then. It had those rickety-looking steel lattice work supports, as opposed to the heavy duty tubular steel beams we see used on thrill rides today. (Of course, I'm sure it was structurally sound, but at a glance it looked like some quickly thrown up carnival ride...maybe that added to the terror)

Sounds like the ride itself was pretty brutal, lol. Perhaps that was why it only lasted a few seasons.

To me it simply looks like a large, double Chance Skydiver. So, for those who want a similar experience, go to a park that has one of those. But then again, they could be running those rather slow compare to this.

During the ride the center support structure started flipping over so that the two wheels where horizontal to the ground at a point during the rotations. It wasn't just two vertically erect Skydivers placed side by side.

That ride is insane looking. I can't even imagine a Skydiver flipping over like that.

No wonder it was so short lived.

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Looks like a cross between a Chance Skydiver and a Chance Turbo, but the whole thing rotates vertically rather than horizontally. As a kid I once wondered why don't they do a Turbo that rotates vertically, glad to see they came close with this. Too bad many of Chance's best thrill rides are no longer being manufactured or had a short manufacturing time.

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