Gyro Swing

Invented by Wallace and his little brother Milton as they played in the hay barn as boys.

Throw a long rope over a branch a couple of times. (If you loop the rope over itself you don’t have to climb the tree—the rope holds itself) Make a loop large enough to sit in at the two ends of the rope hanging down. Use your bowline scout knot tying skills. A person sits in the loop—you have a person suspended on each end of the rope.

A third person starts both sitting persons to swing in wide circles. As they go, the rope will be twisting up until they are tight next to the sitters. Then just go the other way. The momentum of the swing will alternately propel first one sitter then the other with high wide exciting swings especially if one person is a little heavier than the other and if you have a third person assist in providing a little extra push once in a while that knows the system.

Kids love this type of swing because it is unigue. Adults don’t like it because it makes you want to throw up.