posted 05-16-2001 09:28 AM            

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I am determined to do it. I say this now-I will make a bigger, better trebuchet. Since the Egg-tosser has proven itself, I shall endeavor to make one twice its size. It will stand 14 feet in height when I am finished, and I will take it to our vacation house in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. No doubt the Good townsfolk of Wakefield will be frightened by this strange and terrible device. However they need not worry for I will not be tossing the stones at them, but into their lake.

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posted 05-16-2001 12:11 PM            

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When you say pick on someone else of my own size, I have to assume you mean someone else with a 14 foot trebuchet. There isn't much here, in the states, as far as castles are concerned. Laying siege to one is something I'll most likely never get a chance to do, so it will have to be a lake.

I could always enter that Pumpkin Chucking thingy-that's a thought. hhmmmmmmm.

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posted 05-16-2001 12:35 PM            

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Well i've told a friend that if he built his full size TB he was not aiming it any where near my castle!!!
As i have said before, 300 pound rocks clocked over a hundred miles an hour for 200 yards is not what i want aimed at my walls.
By the way i do live in the states and i don't think the Fish and Game people let alone the boaters, would like the lake filled with rocks.
Pumkins might be a different subject alltogher. 300 pound rock = 200 yards, hmmmm, 30 pound Pumkin at 100 mph for ???? yardage?
Its begining to sound like fun now. How good of a shot are you?

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posted 05-17-2001 09:13 AM            

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What were your weight and sling materal and what will you be useing?
With your experence with the smaller one a large pumkin {rock} tosser that is as accurate should not be a problem i'd think.
My friend wanted to build one that could through a VW bug 200 yards. My wife and i still want to think this over first.

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posted 05-17-2001 10:08 AM            

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The cannon is a good idea! I've also thought my friend needs to be kept under medication. Hmmm, i think i see a reason for a Scottish bottle neck 'room' for a little private meditation on his part.

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posted 05-17-2001 08:07 PM            

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I'm guessing that the weight on the weighted end was somewhere around 40 pounds or so. The sling was a wash cloth with braided yarn attached to either end of it.
With the next treb I want to be more realistic have an actual bucket made of wood instead of the towel that I used for the first one. I guess that I will use some light-weight rope to make the sling. this time I am going for as a realistic look as possible. I admit it, I was impatient and built first one with the material I had on hand. It did look rather silly being made out of plywood, yarn, a towel and wire clothes hangers-but it worked. I had to keep adjusting it though; after so many throws it would tend to lean to one side. This time I am going to take the whole 3 months before vacation to work on it. I will actually go out and buy the material I need this time.

By the way, was Castle Quest crashing today? I had the hardest time getting on it earlier.

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posted 05-18-2001 07:33 AM            

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I must try to think more in a 13th century manner. Of couse a leather or canvas sling, I have completely forgotten, I have spent too much time in this 21st century.

By the way am I a senior member now? Yes!

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posted 05-18-2001 11:03 AM            

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I need vacation all the time
You know what helps to give you a medievil feeling? Playing or doing somefink with a medieval kinda game, like Games Workshops Warhammer. ( http://www.games-workshop.com/warhammerworld/warhammer/warhammer/wfb6.htm )

Good luck wif your treb shelly!

-The world can be as you want, when you are as the world wants you-

posted 05-18-2001 02:15 PM            

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"I'm gonna stomp 'em to dust. I'm gonna grind their bones. I'm gonna pile 'em up inna big fire and roast 'em. I'm gonna bash 'eads, break faces and jump up and down on da bits dat are left. An' den I'm gonna get really mean."
- Grimgor Ironhide, Black Orc Warboss

Sounds like a rather unpleasant fellow-very much like an orc. So Warhammer is where that quote is from.