Lay Siege to Your Enemies!

February 10, 2006 | Link of the Day, Toys and Gadgets | By: Mark VandeWettering

Trebuchet

Feel the need to lob tennis balls at those who oppose you? Try checking out these rather nice plans for a small trebuchet. With such a mighty seige engine, none dare oppose your military might!

Seriously though, these things are:

  • interesting mechanical devices
  • fun to play with
  • and excellent for tossing water balloons.

Unless of course, you get hurt, in which case you didn’t hear it from me.

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Comments

Comment from AG
Time 2/16/2006 at 1:18 pm

Trebuchets are pretty interesting, that is if you don’t have to perform a design of experiments and correlate the data to systems engineering exercise. Sorry I had to vent. I did a deep dive into the trebuchet for grad school assignment. You can find it here.
The Kingdom of Heaven flick also has some colossal trebs;)