banana Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Is any P&Bers hing building/optimising trebuchets? Have any P&Bers ever fired one or been fired from one? Any P&Bers been maimed by an errant trebuchet launch, or perhaps died from a trebuchet volley in a previous life? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Falkirk thread for this pish? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 (edited) In Uni a few of my friends and I tried to build a trebuchet. Our planning involved significantly more beer than physics books and we only managed to get our projectile (a football) to go straight up in the air, No injuries, we planned to go back to the drawing board but never got around to fixing it Edited October 28, 2018 by senorsoupe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 In a manner of speaking. No building or equipment was used though. It was mainly just pulling down a really springy branch on a tree then making smaller and/or significantly dafter child to cling to it. I don't think it ever ended well, but I do remember someone breaking their arm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Just wait till you guys find out about gunpowder... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 I fired a few cannons in my time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 I've got a book called "Weapons of Mass Distraction" which tells you how to build a mini one out of pens and rubber bands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 3 hours ago, bennett said: Just wait till you guys find out about gunpowder... The police tend to take a dim view of firing cannons off, however there are no laws against having a trebuchet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 10 hours ago, tamthebam said: I've got a book called "Weapons of Mass Distraction" which tells you how to build a mini one out of pens and rubber bands. Upload a pic of the instructions, get P&B to work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goethe411 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 lol twitter.com/JTitusP/status/1154683483228430342?s=20 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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