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Reply #15 - Nov 24th, 2004 at 8:55pm
 
what if you made stop motion lego movies, and you needed a small trebuchet,

I still like the tiny little toothpick treb
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Reply #16 - Nov 25th, 2004 at 12:34pm
 
well i want to make a full sized one. a tiny one may help you to learn and better understand that functions of a full sized one. that way you dont go out and get all that lumber then not know what to do with it. you have that tooth pick trebuchet to help you build the big one.
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Reply #17 - Dec 1st, 2004 at 10:51pm
 
A working trebuchet, no matter what size, is a pretty cool siege engine.

I read on one site they used to throw dead cows and diseased people over castle walls to kill the people inside with disease! 

Gross, but effective.
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Reply #18 - Dec 1st, 2004 at 11:33pm
 
In Monty Pythons "Quest for the Holy Grail" the french launch a live cow!
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Reply #19 - Dec 2nd, 2004 at 10:38am
 
Has nobody looked up trebuchet.com ? ???
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Reply #20 - Dec 2nd, 2004 at 11:14am
 
Ah, Monty Python.  Great.  The Knights Who Say NI! and everything.  "I fart in your general direction."  Lovely.  And the "horses" with coconut shells.  And the monks chanting gibberish and then hitting themselves.  And the three headed monster.  And "what is the average airspeed of an unladen swallow?"  "African or European?"  "I don't know that!  AARGH!"  &c.  Great.
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Reply #21 - Dec 2nd, 2004 at 11:40am
 
Douglas

I have looked at trebuchet.com.  It's a great site.  Once  I get out of college and start making money I might buy one of their kits to make a floating arm trebuchet.

For right now, I settle for free plans off the internet and my own modifications.

I first learned about trebuchets on the computer game Age of Empires II.
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Reply #22 - Dec 2nd, 2004 at 7:22pm
 
cool i would like to make one. My friends all want to make a ballasta. i personaly have nothing agenst the ballasta but i like the treuchet a little better.
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Reply #23 - Dec 3rd, 2004 at 2:21pm
 
I've got a few vidoes and pictures I took of some miniature trebuchets my brother and I made.

We built some card houses and attempted to knock them down with little balls of tinfoil.

If anyone wants them I can e-mail them.  I don't really know how or where to post them so everyone can watch them.
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Reply #24 - Dec 3rd, 2004 at 6:40pm
 
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cool i would like to make one. My friends all want to make a ballasta. i personaly have nothing agenst the ballasta but i like the treuchet a little better.

hmm.
ballista

ive always wanted to make a larger scale one..
not that i dont like trebs i just think that trebs are a bit less "dynamic" meaning youd need a big one costing stuff i dont have to toss a dirt clod or a volkswagon or something.

i like ballistas.
made a smaall model and im trying to figure out how to post pics on this blasted site .
when i figure it all out ill show you all

really neat.....
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Reply #25 - Dec 6th, 2004 at 8:14am
 
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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