The frame is a massive 18ft tall and the axle, which spins him round is 16ft 5ins, which means that when Colin swings he towers over his family home in Stanford, Lincolnshire.

The swing is fitted with a 25kg drum of water on one end to act as a counterbalance while he clings onto the other end to avoid flying over his home in Stanford, Lincolnshire.

Dad Colin Furze whose three-year-old son loves swings has built the UK's only 360 DEGREE swing in his BACK GARDEN - but his son will have to wait a long time before he can go on it.

Colin Furze has done it again. The inventor from Lincolnshire has created the UK’s only 360-degree swing and he’s done it in his back garden.

Is that a good idea? Probably not, because as the title states, the A-frames that make up the bulk of this counterweighted swing are as tall as Furze’s home in Lincolnshire.

The scaffolder is currently using his mother's back garden to build on and so he says he will have to take the 360 swing down soon. He added: "She thinks I'm mental.

No, what we need to talk about right now is the Real Upside Down: a.k.a. the absolutely insane 360-degree swing in the above video that was built by the equally insane British inventor Colin Furze.

Colin Furze is at it again. The YouTuber and inventor has built the UK's only 360 degree swing in his back garden. In a video, posted to his YouTube channel on Thursday, the Englishman can seen ...