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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3419 UK	Traction tebuchet video Oct 25^th, 2008 at 7:01am http://www.djurfeldt.com/patrik/artillery.html Big trebs are two-a-penny, but you dont often see a traction trebuchet in action....
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Traction tebuchet video Reply #1 - Nov 8^th, 2008 at 10:15am weird - surely it would make much more sense to use a big weigt. Given that their best distance was 140 metres with a 1.5 kg rock. I reckon you could probably match that with a 2 man staff sling
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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3419 UK	Re: Traction tebuchet video Reply #2 - Nov 8^th, 2008 at 12:17pm It was an evolutionary step on the way to the counterweight trebuchet. Also the rate of fire was high since its easy to reset without having to winch up a giant weight, and its highly portable since the traction crew can break it down and carry off the bits.
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BrianGrubbs Funditor Offline Joined May 6th, 2008 Posts: 559 Alabama Gender:	Re: Traction tebuchet video Reply #3 - Nov 9^th, 2008 at 11:14am I don't know if it was used this way, but it seems to me that you could mount it on a battlement, or the top of a tower in a castle. Would be usefull in a seige, and you'd get better range being up that high.
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Reply #4 - Nov 9^th, 2008 at 2:37pm

BrianGrubbs wrote on Nov 9^th, 2008 at 11:14am:

I don't know if it was used this way, but it seems to me that you could mount it on a battlement, or the top of a tower in a castle. Would be usefull in a seige, and you'd get better range being up that high.

From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

"Engineers thickened walls to withstand the new artillery and redesigned fortifications to employ trebuchets against attackers. Architects working under al-Adil (1196–1218), Saladin’s brother and successor, introduced a defensive system that used gravity-powered trebuchets mounted on the platforms of towers to prevent enemy artillery from coming within effective range. These towers, designed primarily as artillery emplacements, took on enormous proportions to accommodate the larger trebuchets"

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Re: Traction tebuchet video
Reply #5 - Nov 10^th, 2008 at 8:15am

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It was an evolutionary step on the way to the counterweight trebuchet. Also the rate of fire was high since its easy to reset without having to winch up a giant weight, and its highly portable since the traction crew can break it down and carry off the bits.

Can't argue with that

But five blokes with staff slings and grenades would have been my choice Wink

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