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Residents create massive ice carousel on frozen lake

April 08, 2018
A massive ice carousel that's 130 meters in diameter is seen on Sunday on a frozen lake in Sinclair, Maine. Volunteers say it’s large enough to beat the old record held by a town in Finland; four outboard engines were used to make it rotate. - AP
A massive ice carousel that's 130 meters in diameter is seen on Sunday on a frozen lake in Sinclair, Maine. Volunteers say it’s large enough to beat the old record held by a town in Finland; four outboard engines were used to make it rotate. - AP



SINCLAIR, Maine - Residents in a Maine town believe they've created the world's largest ice carousel on a frozen lake. About 100 volunteers cut a circle in the ice that's 130 meters in diameter, and they used four outboard boat motors to get it rotating on Sunday. It happened in Sinclair in northern Maine. Mike Cyr, one of the organizers, announced, "we got 'er spinning!" He says the ice carousel is big enough to break the world record held by a town in Finland. A surveying team confirmed the measurements. Volunteers used augurs to bore more than 1,300 holes, along with chain saws and other equipment, to cut the massive hole in lake ice that was 30 inches thick. They waited for warmer weather to get it spinning. - AP


April 08, 2018
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