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A human-powered ferris wheel is a very rural phenomenon in India, in villages where electricity is unreliable or even unavailable, and it makes for a fun and inexpensive entertainment solution for kids on a day out. Can imagine - pure human grunt power is pushing the giant wheel and lifting the weight of the kids in this Uttar Pradesh village. Or would you like it to a Giant hamster wheel? Some fairs use generators or even car batteries to power ferris wheels, but the simplest and most cost-effective way to keep people entertained is to hire a couple of daredevils to climb a manual ferris wheel and dangle from its metal bars to keep it spinning. The simple installations are made up of a simple metal frame and a few open-air cages, and without a power source they look like non-functional de
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