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KnollSlinger Senior Member Offline The Davidson Road KnollSlinger Posts: 355 Chandler, Arizona, USA Gender:	The Algorithmic Beauty of the Trebuchet Nov 21^st, 2004 at 9:57pm http://www.algobeautytreb.com/ This is a great article.. I think study of this could lead to understanding the sling. This is in fact a mechanized staff sling. It includes much analysis. Go there!
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Reply #1 - Nov 24^th, 2004 at 3:14pm

That is a great little program. I used the Mac version years ago to design an all steel treb which works almost as well as I planned. The simulator really works a lot of bugs out of the design before actual construction.
Don tends to get pretty math-crazy in all his articles, but you can't argue with results!

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english Ex Member	Re: The Algorithmic Beauty of the Trebuchet Reply #2 - Nov 25^th, 2004 at 9:32am That is quite cool, but I'm wondering when on earth, and where on earth, you could use a trebuchet that, for example, hurls bowling balls over tree tops. It would be cool if you had assholes for neighbours, though, if you scaled it down some.
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KnollSlinger Senior Member Offline The Davidson Road KnollSlinger Posts: 355 Chandler, Arizona, USA Gender:	Re: The Algorithmic Beauty of the Trebuchet Reply #3 - Nov 25^th, 2004 at 11:00am You could make the bowling balls from ice, so the evidence would melt!
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Bob Guest	Re: The Algorithmic Beauty of the Trebuchet Reply #4 - Dec 10^th, 2004 at 4:39pm We have someone in town that made a trebuchet with a 22 ft swing arm. They fire gallon milk containers. They fill them with water, wrap the container in gauze, set it on fire and launch it aflame. Then it explodes when it hits the ground and puts out the fire.
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Reply #5 - Dec 11^th, 2004 at 12:40am

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We have someone in town that made a trebuchet with a 22 ft swing arm. They fire gallon milk containers. They fill them with water, wrap the container in gauze, set it on fire and launch it aflame. Then it explodes when it hits the ground and puts out the fire.

HA how stupid!

They must be filled with kerosene then the fire will last longer!

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