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Medieval Trebuchet is Reborn!
Sep 5th, 2019 at 1:03am
 
I have finished rebuilding my medieval trebuchet and the hurling season has commenced!

More updates to follow.

https://youtu.be/PzQCcWVsiNw
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Reply #1 - Sep 5th, 2019 at 5:28am
 
Awesome!
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Reply #2 - Sep 5th, 2019 at 10:58am
 
That's great!  Nice job!  Smiley
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Reply #3 - Sep 6th, 2019 at 1:52am
 
This is why a border wall will never work. There will be thousands of gerry rigged trebuchets lining the border launching people across. It will be a massacre. Very messy.
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Reply #4 - Sep 6th, 2019 at 7:53am
 
big sucker !
I pity the pumpkins Smiley
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Reply #5 - Sep 6th, 2019 at 8:52pm
 
Morphy wrote on Sep 6th, 2019 at 1:52am:
This is why a border wall will never work. There will be thousands of gerry rigged trebuchets lining the border launching people across. It will be a massacre. Very messy.


Thousands?! Look at that thing! He had to cut down every tree for miles to build one trebuchet!
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Reply #6 - Sep 10th, 2019 at 6:06pm
 
Thanks for the praise everyone!  And yeah, it's definitely difficult to find good local wood out here.  Admittedly, most of the machine is dimensional lumber special ordered from Home Depot which probably came from forests up North.  But the throwing arm is a local Spruce tree that I managed to nab for free from a private owner who cut it down off his lot in town.  Either way, it has been a TON of work to build this thing.

Also, new videos are up!  I'm posting on my YouTube Channel.  Here is the machine in full swing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYHppLiN0ms

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Re: Medieval Trebuchet is Reborn!
Reply #7 - Sep 28th, 2019 at 6:50pm
 
Huge work   Shocked
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