Collo
Joined: 06 Apr 2008
Posts: 130
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Trebuchet
Jeremy has school history project on medieval weapons. He couldnt decide what to build so i said just get some wood and carve it into a sword. He came back 20minutes later saying he was going to build a trebuchet...
The whole thing ended up being 40cm high, and a 40cm arm stuck inbetween, with 6 dumbbell locking nuts as counterweights. After some testing and refinements, the machine can shoot a golf ball 9.5 odd metres. Its not really that far, but for a nearly unresearched or planned build we were impressed.
Now he wants to make a bigger, 4ft high one, I can get pics if anyone wants to have a look
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