I see. You figure that a ride that sits in place for years at a time in a salt-air environment with weekly inspections is “safer” than a ride that is pulled apart and reassembled weekly by the same crew week after week.
It’s obvious you don’t work in maintenance.
You are correct I don’t work in Maintenance but I do work in Operations for a Fortune 500 company.
I do know competent maintenance when I see it. I know tired poorly maintained equipment when I see it. I know a quality weld from a shoddy weld. I know competent electrical workmanship from make do workmanship.
I know that a machine that is taken apart every week by tired barely trained people that have to tear down a ride Sunday arrive in another town possibly two states away on Tuesday to reassemble that ride as quickly as they can so as to be opened for business on Wednesday is not a recipe for safety.
Sure if that ride was taken apart and inspected for worn parts, lubricated and reassembled by competent maintenance technicians on a weekly bases I would be more likely to feel safe putting my kids on that ride.
But that is not the case with traveling carnival rides. Most of these rides are decades old and have passed through multiple owners over the decades. Maintenance is done only as required to keep the ride in service. The workers too often are of the “Zombie Mike” type.
In my younger days I did do Preventative Maintenance on the equipment I operated. The PMs I did were scheduled as recommended by the manufacturer and used the lubricants and parts recommended by the manufacturer. I doubt that the owners and operators of these rides still possess the operating and maintenance manuals for these rides. I still have access to every manual for every piece of equipment in my plant.
That is professionalism. I know it when I see it.