Québec might know how, but they’ve already been challenged by Minnesota! Must see video is worth watching, on full screen if possible, to see the effort made to create the Ice Carousel, and the amazing effect of watching it in surreal motion under the setting sun!
Yes, there were women involved, but the men were the obvious champions of this project.
Remember, we don't stop laughing because we grow old ... we grow old because we stop laughing! :-)
Fancy a spin? Quebecers in Abitibi break world record for largest ice carousel
Friends from Clerval, Que., smashed the record on Dec. 7, carving perfect, spinning circle 209 metres across
CBC News · Posted: Dec 11, 2019 2:12 PM ET | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago
On Dec. 7, Jean-François Richard and his team in Clerval, Que., completed the world's biggest spinning ice carousel, measuring more than 209 metres in diameter. (Submitted by Jean-François Richard)
An ice disk bigger than four CFL football fields has made a group of friends from Quebec's Abitibi region world record holders.
Jean-François Richard, along with ten of his friends and colleagues from Clerval, Que., about 100 kilometres northwest of Rouyn-Noranda, built the world's largest ice carousel last week, setting it spinning on Dec. 7.
"At this time of the year, there's not so much to do over there," Richard told CBC's Breakaway. "It's cold, not enough snow to do snowmobile, so we just decided to say, 'Hey, let's do it!'"
An ice carousel is made by cutting a round disk into a sheet of solid ice, causing the disk to spin on top of the water. Only once it spins a full rotation is the disk considered a proper carousel.
It was Richard's first attempt to beat the world record, something he's been wanting to do ever since he first saw the carousels on YouTube.
"It was a challenge between nations," he said. "The Americans did a big one last year, about 509 feet [155 metres] in diameter.… We just wanted to make it bigger!"
The Abitibi carousel had a final diameter of 209.7 metres and an area of 34,307 square metres. (By comparison, a CFL football field, including the end zones, is 8,152 square metres.)
The ten-person team spent all day Saturday cutting the ice carousel and getting it to move. (Submitted by Jean-François Richard)
While ice carousels are not recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, there is a World Ice Carousel Association that keeps track of big carousels. It recognized Richard's carousel as the largest yet.
The making of an ice carousel
Richard said the hardest part of making the carousel was the precision involved. There was only a 20-centimetre gap between the disk and the rest of the ice, and once completed, if the disk hadn't made a full rotation, its record size wouldn't count.
To make sure it was a perfect circle, they put a pole in the ice and tied a rope to a snowmobile, which drove around it.
Once they traced the disk's perimeter, they had to actually cut through the ice.
World largest Ice carousel 2019 - Carrousel de glace 2019 Clerval, Québec, Canada
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Maryse Lachance Poitras
We will apply to the Ice Caroussel assosiation to get the trophy.
Nous allons appliquer a l’association des carrousel de glace pour avoir le trophée.
