MammotHunter
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Here's a great treb story for you all. Back in high school, I got the great idea to build a full scale trebuchet. Now, I fully realised that there was no way in hell my friends and I could legally build it, but I wanted to know maybe what kind of prices I was looking at if we wanted to do it one day. So, I called a local wholesale lumber company and asked the guy what the measurement for a 20 foot pole would be; something about the size of a telephone pole, I told him. There was a sort of mini choking sound on the other end of the line after which he told me that the pole about 8 inches in diameter, and 20 feet long would be 125$ That pretty quickly put an end to the plans, because I wasn't working then and my income was limited to what I got for allowance, and I was pretty sure that if I asked for a 500$ advance on the allowance, they would want to know why. As it is, my friends and I have discovered a way to build an arbalest for less than 100$. Needless to say, we are extremely excited.
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