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Could come in handy for a renaissance festival ... or an invasion from the Middle Ages, but most of us have a moat, right?
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Could come in handy for a renaissance festival ... or an invasion from the Middle Ages, but most of us have a moat, right?
Neat. I'll take two. 
I've already got one. My son and a team of high school seniors designed and built it. It's been kicked out of the garage and is currently weathering outside behind the garage. I think the throwing arm is a 2x4 by 8'. Works great.
What a dumb question.
EVERYBODY NEEDS A LARGE TREBUCHET!!
I have a small trebuchet in my garage I built for fun a while back. It will throw a baseball about 200 feet with 50 lb weight. its like this one: BEST TREBUCHET DESIGN Its called a Murlin Trebuchet and was designed by a high school physics professor.
PUMPKIN TOSSING !!!
Add this to the list of things that I am glad are far enough away from me that I don't make a very bad decision.
This would be awesome to use water balloons as cluster munitions against the 4747833 geese my neighbors keep feeding in their backyard.
No thank you, I'VE ALREADY GOT A-ONE! Silly English pig-dogs. Go away!
Similar size, ours was 10 foot long with an old steel clothes line post for the arm. Brass bushings on a 2.5" SS shaft. About 400 pounds of concrete for the counterweight. It would throw a car tire about 60 feet, or a flaming cinder block way too far (it was dark, so we doused it in gasoline and lit it. Our rope kept getting shorter for some reason). That's about when my wife woke up and wondered WTF we were doing.
Good times.
Can we add a Spec Trebuchet event to the Challenge?
hobiercr said:Can we add a Spec Trebuchet event to the Challenge?
This could make things interesting. 🤣
J.A. Ackley said:hobiercr said:Can we add a Spec Trebuchet event to the Challenge?
This could make things interesting. 🤣
Can a car built for $2000 outrun a projectile flung from a trebuchet faster than a car built for more?
I do in fact need one. But another post has given me an idea.
What math do I have to do to figure out how big of one I need to hit the house down the street with water balloons?
We, I mean "our kids", could have an epic balloon war this summer.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
Thank you! I just wasted an hour on there!
J.A. AckleyThis could make things interesting. 🤣
Set two up at the XMas tree, cars race while trebuchet gets one toss to hit their car before the finish line. 😎
Bonus points!!
My parent's next door neighbor was part of a group that built a pumpkin chucking adaptation of a trebuchet that used a Fibonacci curve on the throwing arm, they would haul it down from MA to some place in Delaware every fall. They won their class at least once and got on one of the Discovery shows, I remember that at least one of the group members was an MIT professor so quite a collection. Thing could really reach out, I'll have to try and look it up but I'm remembering well over 1,000 feet.
Edit for a link, actually it was 1,752 feet!
https://www.siege-engine.com/PunkinChunk2003Pg4.shtml
Our property is a little over 1/4 mile long, and there aren't any houses behind us for just over a mile.
Once my kid is old enough to safely operate a power saw we'll be building a trebuchet with enough guts to hit targets across the length of the property.
I would say that is at most a "medium" trebuchet. There's one in England that's like 60 feet tall. :)
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