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You should build it and post pictures. Cool idea. I've actually thought about getting one of those myself. The tabletop version, not the full sized one.
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My sister had to make one a couple months ago for a college class, I'll ask her about it. I know there were a bunch of really good websites about trebuchets that helped her so I'll try to get those. Hers was about 6 feet high though.
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I made a little model one. Not more than two feet high when it's uncocked. Pretty neat looking.
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I figured a small one would let me know if I wanted to pursue this project or not. Also, I will be able to break in a new hobby with my wife and not totally shock her .
There are some intersteting kits out there, but $60+ seems steep at the moment. If I really get into it, I may not feel so bad spending the money.
I'm not the competitive type, so I doubt I will ever get involved in compitition. But who knows .
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i made one with some friends in techhouse about three years ago. It was about 6 feet tall.
My main advice is to pay close attention to the proportions of the arm, as it'll make a huge difference to how it throws. Ours liked throwing upwards much more than outwards. We also had a crotched sling. We tried canvas, too.
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I made one in high school. The main problem we had was finding a way to attach the weights we used. Duct tape worked, but it was not pretty.
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At my school for every Halloween, we have a giant trebuchet come and chuck pumpkins at a trashcan pyramid on the field. It's pretty neat.
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I was really interested in trebuchets after seeing a Nova episode about them. I built one out of legos that was about a foot tall including the arm that shot a little brick about 10 or 15 feet. I tried to make a bigger one (about 2.5 feet tall) out of wood, which worked, but did not throw nearly as well as I wanted it to, due to the fact that I didn't have any dense counterweight material that would fit the space constraints. I was thinking about making a bigger and better one this summer, but knowing me, I'll probably be too lazy to build one.
Yeah, amusing story, though. When I was a bit younger, my friend was telling me about Age of Empires II, and he was telling me about "tree-buckets." I honestly thought that that was how it was pronounced until my sister corrected me... Posts: 1466 | Registered: Jan 2003
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The pictures are small, so you can't really distinguish Suneun and Mike in there, but at least you can make out Pikachu. And I was the photographer, so I'm not in any of the shots.
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You should build a mini-trebuchet, then have a friend build a mini-fortress. Then, if your trebuchet demolishes his fortress, you should, like, get his wife and possessions and exile him (or kill him if you don't live near a border). It would be fun!
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Slightly bigger version of the photo. I'm in the white shirt near the door stroking my goatee. Locating Suneun is left as an exercise for the reader (viewer?). (And if you're really good I bet you can spot my mom in there...)
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