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This project is close to 4 years old. I made it with the scrap oak, I had left from the little table I posted a project about last week. It is a fun little trebuchet, put together with pegs, and the throwing arm on a threaded rod. The picture below shows it with a 2.5lbs weight, but at times I have had up to 7.5lbs on it. With 21” (15.25” above the fulcrum) it will throw a bouncy ball about 50’ on a slight uphill. (Never fired it on level ground.) The ball will usually continue to travel to the end of the street, or 3 more houses down.
We have used this at cub scouts, to wing 1” bean bags, with the scouts awards in them, at a castle. But only with the current weight. THe guy whose idea it was to try it, test fired it with the 7.5lbs, and sailed a beanbag all the way across the church santuary. :D
I think my oldest son and I will start a new one tomorrow. Maybe a catapult this time, or an onager. Anyway, I know a couple people asked for plans of the trebuchet that was posted last week, so I decided to make a sketch-up drawing of mine. If you would like a copy of the sketch-up file, I will be happy to pass it on. Just drop me a note.
I added the model to google sketchup warehouse and found many others out there too!
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Karson
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posted 313 days ago
Great tool, at least the medieval armys thought of it as a tool. or weapon.
Looks great. For the Punkin Chunkin event that is held in Delaware, it was held on some church’s property and they used to hang a sign on the roof with a big target. They moved it the next year when one of the participants put a 10 lb pumpkin over the roof. The longest distance this year for a trebuchet was over 1658 ft.
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lclashley
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posted 313 days ago
Cool! I made a trebuchet a few years ago. Fun project.
cajunpen
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posted 313 days ago
Great little project. I bet you will have some fun building one with your son.
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Brad_Nailor
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posted 313 days ago
Cool! I have always wanted to build one. I saw that other post you were talking about and spent the next hour looking at plans on websites. Nice work on the SU..I would love to see the whole model.
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snowdog
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I have a problem that this might help solve :) We (wife and I) wanted to feed the animals in the back yard in the winter months and wanted the food to be delivered far from the house. My wife asked me yesterday how we would get the food to them in the winter months when there are many feet of snow on the ground, she mentioned a big rubber band that we could use to shoot the food and I didn’t give it much thought at the time. This would be great and a lot fun :) at the same time.
Great project!
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MsDebbieP
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haha I want a video, Snowdog.. lol
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Dadoo
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I’ve always wanted one of those that would accurately lob water balloons at my sister-in-law while she’s mowing the grass.
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mot
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I love watching videos on youtube about these things! It looks fun!
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Robert Smith
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posted 313 days ago
Fantastic would you share the pattern,my grandson’s would love one of these
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