Cutting the biggest ice cream carousel with a chainsaw is the crazy gamble of Janne Käpylehto, who claims to have been behind this concept since 2017. In western Finland, the inventor and his team in charge construction workers spent several days clearing the 40 centimeters of snow covering the ice before cutting the 300-meter diameter circle with a chainsaw.
The principle ?
Once its route has been cleared of snow and cut, a boat motor connected to the immense circle of ice makes it turn on itself, like an enchantment in the middle of a beautiful frozen landscape.
Inside the Lappajärvi carousel, the team cut a smaller circle, which is powered by an electric boat motor when the large carousel requires a gasoline engine.
“I have done the largest ice cream carousel in the world four times, but currently the record is held by my friend Chuck Zwilling from Minnesota, USA,” explains Janne Käpylehto.
He made a 228 meter ice carousel and we are trying to make it even bigger.
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To certify this new performance, the merry-go-round must complete at least one complete turn on itself, which its designers hope to be able to do this Sunday or Monday.
The main difficulty is to form a perfect circle so as not to block the rotation.
“If it is not perfectly circular, the merry-go-round does not turn,” explains Thor-Fredric Karlsson, one of the project assistants.
The municipality has supported the project to warn of the shortening of northern winters due to climate change, meaning that lakes freeze less often.
In fact, positive temperatures have reigned in recent days in this little lost corner of the Finnish forest.
