Giant and Lawn Games
Ladder Toss Rentals
Two steel ladders, six bolas and a game that goes together without a single screw. Compression-fit joints matter more on a rental set than they sound: there is nothing small to lose between events.
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Specifications
Fourteen steel pieces and six bolas.
Seven pieces per frame, pushed together by hand into a 23.75 in wide ladder standing 35.5 in tall. The whole set is 5.5 lb and travels in a sport carry bag. Bolas come three blue and three red, which sorts teams out without anybody deciding anything.
| Frames | 2, all-steel, press-fit |
|---|---|
| Frame size | 23.75 W × 35.5 H × 29.5 D in |
| Parts per frame | 7 steel pieces, no screws |
| Bolas | 6 soft-ball bolas — 3 blue, 3 red |
| Set weight | 5.5 lb |
| Setup | Seconds, hardware-free |
| Transport | Sport carry bag included |
| Use | Indoor and outdoor |
Where nothing may be left behind
Six sites that suit a hardware-free set.
Tailgates and parking-lot events
Seven steel pieces per frame push together by hand and come apart the same way, so a lane goes up on a surface it is not allowed to mark and leaves nothing in it.
Beach and park bookings
Nothing screws together, so nothing works loose in sand or gets lost in grass. What goes out in the bag comes back in the bag.
Tailgate-style setups
Standard play sets the throwing line about 15 feet from the ladder. Allow 25 to 30 feet end to end and keep the lane out of foot traffic, because bolas bounce.
Two stations instead of one lane
Split the frames to opposite ends of a lawn and you have two smaller games rather than one long one. Useful when the crowd is spread out rather than gathered.
Patio events
It plays on paving as readily as on grass. The constraint is the lane length rather than the surface. A terrace is usually long before it is wide.
Indoor function rooms
Rated for inside as well as out. Bolas are soft-ball weighted on a cord, so a miss lands rather than rolls — which is the difference between a hall and a hall with a bar in it.
What usually goes beside it
A lane game wants a point game next to it.
Ladder toss is played down a lane by two people at a time. A stacking tower is played standing around one point by as many spectators as turn up, so the two fill completely different parts of the same lawn. Fifty-four pine blocks, up to eight feet when it is going well.
See the giant stacking tower