Amazing Spinner Gives Most Anything a Whirl

A typewriter, a card table, a wheelbarrow: If it weighs less than 125 pounds, Dave Klemczak can probably spin it on the tip of his finger.

“I’ll spin any part that can come off a car,” said Klemczak, 27, of Butte Falls, Ore. “Hood, battery, headlights, wheels, windshield.”

To demonstrate, Klemczak walked through the offices at the Josephine County Fairgrounds, where he sells Shrine Circus tickets by phone, and picked up a card table and a telephone book, setting them spinning at the same time.

That done, he hurled a rusty wheelbarrow into the air, upside-down, and set it to whirling with one hand. On the other hand, he spun the wheel. Then a couple of suitcases. A chair. A saw.

“I’ve never dropped or broke anything yet,” he said. “I dropped a saw, but it wasn’t my fault. There was butter on it.”

He has showcased his dizzying talent on “Late Night With David Letterman,” “Good Morning America,” and “That’s Incredible.” And he’s supposed to spin a volleyball for a beer commercial.

“I told them I’d spin a case of beer, but all they want me to do is a volleyball,” he said.

Klemczak got his start in ninth grade, when he discovered he could twirl a basketball without slapping the side of it, leaving him free to spin with both hands at once.

“I’ll just go into a grocery store, and I’ll spin all the food in it,” he said. “Basically, they freak out. They think it’s magic. They think there’s something on my finger.”

As he spoke, he spun a section of carpet, causing dirt and grit to whirl off.

“There, it’s clean now,” he said.

Klemczak allowed that there are some things he cannot spin, such as an 8-foot 2-by-4. “I can spin Sheetrock,” he added.