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Sweetbriar
01-05-2009, 10:04
This (http://hittingmetalwithahammer.wordpress.com/) project looks like it has comedy potential.
Bill Harsey
01-05-2009, 10:12
I like all the possible targets on the horizan.
Just read his "troll" area announcement. He is a kind and gentle soul too.
These puppies are awesome when they are engineered correctly.
Like for throwing Pumpkins??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nomeW2FDDtM
The trebuchet was essentially an engine for destroying the defenses of a fortification , so that it might be entered by means of scaling ladders or in other ways. From experiments with models of good size and from other sources I find that the largest trebuchets those with arms of about 50 ft. in length and counterpoises of about 20,000 lbs. - were capable of slinging a Stone 300 lbs. in weight to a distance of 300 yards
or cars!!! :eek:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiXXPMezTV0
or piano's!! :confused:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F92FQdnLlSc
or cars & pianos :lifter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY&feature=related
The 2008 pumpkin throwing world record is 1897 ft... :D
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ERFcBgYt9_AJ:www.bidlink.com/pumpkinhammer/+trebuchet+world+record+pumpkin&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
jasonglh
01-05-2009, 11:52
My wife got me a desk top trebuchet for Christmas last year that is supposed to hurl a clay ball 20ft. If you fill the weight basket with pennies it will hurl a metal ball bearing diagonally across my living room that is 24x30 with an arc around 15ft high but never have tried it outside.