Pinsetters/Pinboys at Diamond Bowling Lanes! - Cumberland MD

[@ZenMastaKai]

I actually did that job in 1970.... It was fun and brutal at the same time. 10 pin was alot more dangerous. Some guys could really chuck a ball and the pins would fly. Sometimes at your head. I saw another pinboy get knocked out. Sometimes people would whip a ball down and you were still setting up the pins from the last bowler... Getting hit in the shin by a 10 pin ball was painful.

[@KingDon77-24]

I did this job 31 years ago. Excellent job for a kid (I was 12 at the time). I can remember one night I was working with a friend both of us were setting pins in lanes beside each other when for some strange cosmic reason both people bowled early. We both dived the wall at the same time knocking each other back into our pits. We got showered with pins.

[@rockvilleraven]

@@KingDon77-24 They still have pinboys in Texas where they have outlaw 9 pin clubs.

[@albertafarmer8638]

That's awful!

[@h8GW]

They should've OSHA'd you sweepers as standard equipment.

[@therandomytchannel4318]

Love the Brunswick machines doing their job 😁

[@alfredristan3445]

Brings back memories of my youth . Setting pins to earn pocket money. I'm from Canada so variety of types . 5 pin, 10 pin, Candles and Ducks. All manual with spikes pushed up by foot pedal to place pins. Flying pins always a hazard but great source of material for survival stories.

[@MrMrjchips]

Is this it? Did I finally get to the end of KZbin!?

[@tallywhacker1]

Looks like a great workout.

[@therockforlife2023]

This looks like such a tiring job

[@floxy20]

Those rubber banded pins were the ones I grew up with in Quebec. Scoring was the same as for ten pins.

[@ReverendBrown.]

Thongs change scent from one end to the other. Knowledge is power. God bless

[@francisdashwood1760]

I hope that's a typo....lol!

[@petertuckergoettler5720]

As A Wee Lad I Set Pins (Sometimes By My Self) All Lanes, merci. '"Been There Done That."

[@drummachine434]

That job looks fun

[@tttdrr2293]

I did this when I was a kids. It was 10 pin and did two lanes at a time, some couldn’t do it. Believe it was a 20 lane alley. Did 5 pin a couple of times till I got whacked in The back of the head. I liked putting a backspin when I was returning the ball it would come back. Good times.

[@1761Charlie]

We had rubber ducks at the Fair Haven (NJ) bowling alleys in addition to ten pins. I brought a set of refurbished candle pins down from Cape Cod and, since we already had the balls, we actually had three of the five types of bowling in North America.

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

There's 5 types of bowling? I've only found 3 what are they all?

[@1761Charlie]

@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman Ten pins, nine pins in certain parts of Texas, five pins in Canada, ducks, rubber ducks, and candlepins. The first two use the same pins but the rest are different but the lanes in all cases are the same dimensions.

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

@@1761Charlie thank you.

[@1761Charlie]

@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman You're welcome!

[@arseniopatente-hw8qv]

Where can I apply this job I'm a pinboy 30 yrs. In the philippines

[@Mitjitsu]

I can see why they had rubber bands added to the pins. Can't imagine the injuries those pinboys would have received back in the day from those exploding duckpins.

[@timothystark4475]

Yeah. I did that at WPSD during physcial education course. WPSD (school) has duckpin's bowling. I played a ball for a frame then went to pinsetter for next bowler, then so.

[@francisdashwood1760]

Why isn't there a shield for the setter to sit behind?

[@1761Charlie]

Thanks Nan . . . That's a lot how it was at Fair Haven.

[@albertafarmer8638]

So interesting!

[@Trainlover-p6u]

why are they five pins

[@romyalimboyao6070]

During 1987 that's my job in baguio city until 1994

[@BrianArmstrong]

I did that many yrs. Ago paid 7c again for 5 pin and 10c for 10 pin. Not bad money on league nights nights.

[@MrBrymmx]

That looks like Canadian Duckpin Bowling but in Maryland.

[@cooldog60]

I set Duckpins when I lived in Pa early 60ies.

[@Sam_Hue]

What are those pins? They looked like a fivepin duckpin hybrid :/

[@daltondick5223]

simon hue it’s the Canadian form of duckpin bowling which is most commonly known as rubberband duckpin. Basically they take duckpins and add a five pin bowling style rubber ring to the pins for increased performance.

[@johnseal56]

@@daltondick5223 It actually began in Pennsylvania, nearish Pittsburgh, but indeed its mostly played in Quebec these days.

[@daltondick5223]

@@johnseal56 I didn’t know that! thank you for letting me know!

[@johnseal56]

@@daltondick5223 Sure! Now, I'm not sure if the Canadians pioneered the backhanded release; they could have.

[@daltondick5223]

@@johnseal56 that is a possibility. It seems to be an affective release though. It’s not a fast ball but it can still carry the pins

[@ItsRyanplays12]

This looks like rubber band duckpin

[@merccadoosis8847]

Wow - that looks kinda risky with balls and pins coming at you from two different directions. Then, there the pace at which he was working. That's too much for me. I could never have done that work in my youth. Never.

[@samueldecelles6646]

That the Quebec duckpins

[@henrypiergiovanni3951]

Dónde es eso,una locura q los paleros trabajen así,eso no pasa en ningún lugar siempre se hace una jaula de protección

[@cooldog60]

Those are some sorry pin boys. When I set pins I would grab 3 pins in each hand.

[@_1ben]

i would say you walked to school 3 miles in the snow every day, didn't miss a day in 12 years , and all you got for Christmas was a balloon

[@cooldog60]

@@_1ben I can tell from your comment you are very weak. Stop watching tv.

[@_1ben]

@@cooldog60 LoL! ok, I can guess you are a codger and the best day you have had since social security checks arrived on time was you turned in a co-worker for taking an extended lunch , proud moment

[@cooldog60]

@@_1ben I don't need to guess. I know you are soft and weak. Only thing you know is what you see on tv!

[@Mickt6]

this is not the proper way to set rubber duck pins , you have to take 3 pins in each hand followed by 2 in each hand should not take more than 5 sec to set all the pins

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Rubber Duckpins scores the same way as Tenpins, you only get 2 Balls. Normal Duckpins gets 3 Balls

[@riekoo7007]

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[@mrrobvs]

That job is not a good job

[@1761Charlie]

I loved setting pins as a teenager. Fringe benefit: When there were no customers, the boss let me bowl for free. Got in a ton of practice and it paid off in the Shore Conference (NJ) where I was leadoff for the Red Bank H.S. varsity team.

[@chuckschafer942]

I WAS A PINJAMMER GAVE ME A LIVLIHOOD

[@Nan-1017]

@@1761Charlie love that!😊

[@stevejorfi9086]

Stay in school kids or you'll end up doing that.

[@chuckschafer942]

GOT A DIPLOMA AND STILL DONE THAT

[@Nan-1017]

Nothing wrong with setting pins and working hard. Great exercise, no need to go to the gym😊

[@chuckschafer942]

@@Nan-1017 LOST 25LBS IN 3 MONTHS

[@Nan-1017]

@@chuckschafer942 wow! I’m guessing that’s a good thing 🤔??

[@MikeFPV571]

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