Trebuchet!!!

[ImmortalKiller]

Well... I've done it.

After much planning, a fair amount of dinero, and countless man-hours of work...

I've made a trebuchet. (Which isn't in Firefox's default language pack, shame.)

Don't know what it is? It's pronounced "Treh" "Bu" "Shay", and is a medieval siege weapon.


Here is what it looked like under construction:

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Here it is set up. Horrible picture quality, the picture was pink before it was edited.

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12 feet long throwing arm, the arm is at it's peak apprx. 16 feet in the air. The weight box weighs 300 of it's maximum 700 lbs, excluding the weight of the weight box it's self. (Approximately 74.5 lbs.)

Unfortunately, the sling requires fine tuning, as the current setup only launches soccer balls partially filled with water... about 30 feet at a constant negative slope. Adjusting sling release time is... annoying to say the least.

Just wanted to show off

Post questions about specs and whatnot... I'm to lazy to list everything and I'll just edit the following spoiler with answers to questions when I've got the time / can find the paper with the detailed specs. The ratio of the length of the arm is fully adjustable, meaning it has the capability to be optimized when I've got enough money and spare time to chuck pumpkins.

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[willieb3]

A trebuchet? What on earth gave you the idea to make one of those xD
It looks pretty sweet but like someones gonna walk by ur house and be like "wth why does he have a mideval siege weapon -.-

Its kinda funny though i once had the dream of making a caravel or a galleon and equip it with real cannons.

[theblindarcher]

This is fkin awesome i wanna come over we can like load it with pumpkins and watermealons and shoot it at ur neighbors houses and sht like that like they will b sittin watchin tv and suddendly a pumpkin smashes through their window they be like WHT THE FK tell me WHERE YOU LIVE

[ImmortalKiller]

This is fkin awesome i wanna come over we can like load it with pumpkins and watermealons and shoot it at ur neighbors houses and sht like that like they will b sittin watchin tv and suddendly a pumpkin smashes through their window they be like WHT THE FK tell me WHERE YOU LIVE

I'm loading it with pumpkins and watermelons when I've got an open field to transport it to.

The thing is fully collapsable and transportable in a Chevy Suburban. w00t.

[theblindarcher]

This is fkin awesome i wanna come over we can like load it with pumpkins and watermealons and shoot it at ur neighbors houses and sht like that like they will b sittin watchin tv and suddendly a pumpkin smashes through their window they be like WHT THE FK tell me WHERE YOU LIVE

I'm loading it with pumpkins and watermelons when I've got an open field to transport it to.

The thing is fully collapsable and transportable in a Chevy Suburban. w00t.

damn nice

[ThatBluePerson]

omfg. dude you are so awesome. i applaud your originality. i always thought those were neat weapons back in the days of aoe II

[Midori]

But that doesn't look anything like the font...

[[SD]happynoobing]

i heard from a discovery channel show that says trebuchets are steadier or fires further with wheels or something...

[ImmortalKiller]

i heard from a discovery channel show that says trebuchets are steadier or fires further with wheels or something...

It's sort of true.

I couldn't think of a way to make portable wheels, so I didn't make them.

And usually wheels are put on trebuchets in order to make a less violent swinging, distance is barely improved if at all.

[Eeece]

Well... I've done it.

After much planning, a fair amount of dinero, and countless man-hours of work...

I've made a trebuchet. (Which isn't in Firefox's default language pack, shame.)

Don't know what it is? It's pronounced "Treh" "Bu" "Shay", and is a medieval siege weapon.


Here is what it looked like under construction:

Spoiler!

Here it is set up. Horrible picture quality, the picture was pink before it was edited.

Spoiler!

12 feet long throwing arm, the arm is at it's peak apprx. 16 feet in the air. The weight box weighs 300 of it's maximum 700 lbs, excluding the weight of the weight box it's self. (Approximately 74.5 lbs.)

Unfortunately, the sling requires fine tuning, as the current setup only launches soccer balls partially filled with water... about 30 feet at a constant negative slope. Adjusting sling release time is... annoying to say the least.

Just wanted to show off

Post questions about specs and whatnot... I'm to lazy to list everything and I'll just edit the following spoiler with answers to questions when I've got the time / can find the paper with the detailed specs. The ratio of the length of the arm is fully adjustable, meaning it has the capability to be optimized when I've got enough money and spare time to chuck pumpkins.

Spoiler!

the trebuchets are 10x times bigger than yours and they need more than 5mans to launch those big stones.. but i guess u cant make a real one nice trebuchet anyway

[Klarabella]

ImmortalKiller for president, goddamnit i wanna play age of empires 2 nooow!

[vermillion]

age of empires 2!!!
load them with the severed heads of the people you hate!!

[ImmortalKiller]

the trebuchets are 10x times bigger than yours and they need more than 5mans to launch those big stones.. but i guess u cant make a real one nice trebuchet anyway

Theirs aren't fully transportable

[jeansl10]

0_o where are the plans i need one of those!

[exality]

Two Words: Flaming Pumpkins!

[saiteris]

Omg dude im Thinking good work Whats the Fire Range? Can U SIege ure Neighbors?
Um Make some videos post them on youtube and u could show them to us

And since uv got the skill why dont u make a Balista next?

[-Evan]

Great job, Now a battering ram!!!

[Tasdik]

Haha this made my day.

Nice job

[ImmortalKiller]

Great job, Now a battering ram!!!

LOL. If you were being sarchastic, that actually made me laugh... Otherwise... srsly?

Omg dude im Thinking good work Whats the Fire Range? Can U SIege ure Neighbors?
Um Make some videos post them on youtube and u could show them to us

And since uv got the skill why dont u make a Balista next?

I'm not a fan of the Balista, and this thing took so many resources to make I doubt I'll make anything else for a while. I don't know the max range, I can't test the thing with full weight until I'm in a large field.

Two Words: Flaming Pumpkins!

I've got an idea that is slightly more fun. Exploding pumpkins. You know how, when you hit a lighter against the ground really hard, it explodes? Well, I'm going to fill a pumpkin with gasoline, tape some lighters to it, and hope it explodes. I'm really hoping I can do this.

0_o where are the plans i need one of those!

The plans I made were entirely made by myself... and are so messy (handwritten and edited many times) that nobody would be able to use them. But just look at the picture, and if one truly desired, one could make it.

[Draquish]

Load either one really big paintball, or a bunch of regular ones, gather a large group of people, and play the most insane paintball game ever.


The winner of every match could determine who gets to use the weapon in the next one.

[Jstar1]

reminds me of age of empires 2

you should randomly chuck pumpkins or paintballs at night around your neighborhood and they'll never know who did it

[Mr.Ganji]

whatre ur future plans with it

[ImmortalKiller]

whatre ur future plans with it

I might sell it or donate it to the army for a tax deduction.

Or keep it.

[FireVortex]

whatre ur future plans with it

I might sell it or donate it to the army for a tax deduction.

Or keep it.

Throw flaming pumpkins at your nieghbours!!
Also when I was like 11 or something I made a very small ballista outta alot of toothpicks. It was awesome til my dog tried 2 eat it and it broke .

[ImmortalKiller]

whatre ur future plans with it

I might sell it or donate it to the army for a tax deduction.

Or keep it.

Throw flaming pumpkins at your nieghbours!!
Also when I was like 11 or something I made a very small ballista outta alot of toothpicks. It was awesome til my dog tried 2 eat it and it broke .

I have a similar problem with my dog. He has possession problems. He shits on my trebuchet.

[theblindarcher]

lanuch your dog offa it then

[Midori]

I still say it looks nothing like the font.

[Tasdik]

Great job, Now a battering ram!!!

LOL. If you were being sarchastic, that actually made me laugh... Otherwise... srsly?

I say go for it

[Jstar1]

launch stuff around the neighborhood at night, no one will know who it is

[Tasdik]

Yeah. Stuff raining down from the sky in the middle of the night. And there's a guy with a gigantic catapult...no one will suspect a thing.