Fred Smethers gives a demonstration of his Squash-o-Fire Pumpkin Trebuchet at the 2013 Medieval Festival in Everett, Wa...
Floating Arm Trebuchet IIT Pumpkin Launch. Winning throw 361 ft...
We continue our adventure at the 2010 NYS Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY. This is all the amazing stuff which we couldn't get into the first episode. What you'll see: * Holiday Inn Knit-in * Pumpkin Chunking * a Jayne Hat * Ravelry Meetup * Leaping Llamas * lots of great yarniness Book Rev...
2 members of our local SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) group have spent the last several months hand building a Period-style Trebuchet (based on actual Period documentation). The grand launching for this occurred on our farm over this past weekend. We launched 10 pound stones and basket-ball ...
A project for my Intro to Mechanical Engineering class was to design a device to launch a pumpkin in the annual Pumpkin Launch. These three videos are the results of my team's efforts...
The Pumpkin Plan author, Mike Michalowicz joins YFE for our LIVE Thursday night show along with Jules and Krystina of Kickstart Kitchen. If you are an entrepreneur looking for a good business book, these are the people you will want to get to know. About Mike Michalowicz MIKE MICHALOWICZ (pronounced...
Complete plans for building a real working trebuchet. Impress your friends (including that fair damsel in your life) when you hurl melons, toasters, pumpkins, small animals (just kidding), balls and those dreaded fruitcakes, the length of a football field...
Who can honestly say that they don't need a trebuchet for home defense? In this episode of Some Assembly Required, Shawn Wasserman designs and builds a trebuchet big enough to throw a pumpkin. Warning - graphic images of exploding fruit. If you're wondering what this software is, it's called Autodes...
The annual trebuchet competition held on October 24, 2008 by Mr. Smith's AP Physics class. Ten machines in all, points were awarded for distance and accuracy. Distances maxed out around 200 yards (the record stands at 214), and a cornhole type target was struck four times. The featured team here is ...
How To Build A Catapult Trebuchet Plans and Instructions...
Mike Senese, host of the 2009 Punkin Chunkin, conducts this interview about the trebuchet being built at the Craftsman Experience. Joseph Budka of Pagoda Studios is building the catapult-like medieval siege weapon, and describes the catastrophic failures endured along the way. Joseph dives into the ...
Every year in the beginning of fall, pumpkin season is kicked off with an unusual past time. The pumpkin pitch. The pumpkin pitch's main component is a trebuchet, a medieval siege engine made to hurl objects long distances at high speeds. A pumpkin hurling competition is held each year on this date ...
Shoots a golf ball 560 feet (my latest numbers are over 1200 feet - see 1200 foot+ golfball trebuchet). These are the first shots from a new 5 armed MURLIN (multi-radius linear nodes) trebuchet designed to shoot golf balls. Counterweights progress from 7.5 to 30 lb. Device is designed for 37.5 lb ma...
Story by Kelli Ameling | Video produced by Cory Smith | Students decided to put what they learned in the classroom to the test by creating a plan to chuck pumpkins on Wednesday. Students from the Montcalm Area Career Center (MACC) created a trebuchet to launch pumpkins at a target - a car - by using...
My engineering class was split into two groups and each were tasked with creating a pumpkin-launching trebuchet. My group went with the Murlin design, which uses 5 arms and counterweights to launch a projectile. The trebuchet was 3D modeled and then laser engraved into 1/8in plywood. We cut 2 of eac...
Troop 1935 of the Woodlands, Texas, designed and built this floating arm trebuchet for the Annual Pumpkin Chucking Contest. They won the competition through their innovative design, determination, and teamwork!...
Watch us throw 20 pound pumpkins over 400 feet at Vesperman Farms, Lancaster WI...
What a better way to teach physics and math than with some good ole fashion flying pumpkins. Students from Stowers Elementary School here on post developed some engineering skills with the help of Soldiers, engineers and left over pumpkins...
This floating arm trebuchet was made for a school project. It's extremely powerful. Although the longest throw was 206 feet with a baseball, The trajectory was WAY too steep and went something like 100 feet in the air. After we lower the trajectory I'm guessing about 350 feet with only about 50 poun...
A project for my Intro to Mechanical Engineering class was to design a device to launch a pumpkin in the annual Pumpkin Launch. These three videos are the results of my team's efforts...
Our biggest trebuchet is for throwing pumpkins. It is able to throw 8 pound pumpkins over 600 feet, lighter ones even further. The counterweight can range from 700 to 1100 pounds...
Heritage Restoration created this 3rd generation trebuchet, to improve on the design and create a more historically appropriate siege weapon. The trebuchet's was unveiled the South Kingston's 2008 Kid's Festival...
Watch Punkin Chunkin this Thanksgiving, November 22nd, at 8 pm on Science Channel. More pumpkin carnage online at "Punkin Chunkin" is the United State's annual contest to see whose homemade machine can hurl a pumpkin the farthest (without explosives!). Every November, thousands of amateur ...
Trebuchet catapult throwing pumpkin, 12 arm, 300lb counterweight...
This was recorded at CreativeLive San Fransisco, September 2013 Mike Michalowicz, The Pumpkin Plan Get the first 5 chapters of Mike's newest book Profit First, which was inpsired at this very taping, at this link...
Mike Michalowicz, author of The Pumpkin Plan, shares some of the strategies that entrepreneurs can use to grow a colossal business in any field...
Building and Firing our catapult for pumpkin chunk-in on October 26 Innsbruck...
A project for my Intro to Mechanical Engineering class was to design a device to launch a pumpkin in the annual Pumpkin Launch. These three videos are the results of my team's efforts...
Trebuchet Pumpkin Launch By Landon Cox The Pumpkin-GPS consisted of a Sparkfun Venus GPS breakout board with its UART tied directly to an XBee 900 Pro so that it can send telemetry data back to a ground station and it's flight could be tracked...
Fall is an awesome time to do some of the science experiments for kids we have been putting on our to do list all year. If you are looking for inexpensive, easy projects that are great for fall, you have come to the right place!...
WikiHow to Build a Trebuchet (1 Meter Scale) - via...
Mapleside Farms 2014: November 1st & 2nd Pumpkin Smash Bonus weekend will be half off admission to Pumpkin Village, and half off bag your own apples! We encourage people to bring down their jack o' lanterns and offer a few ways to destroy them. We'll have big ole' sle...
Punkin Chunkin Fundraiser. Near Halloween, this is a unique way to raise funds for your group while disposing of left over pumpkin and jack-o-lanterns in your community. Here's how it works: Volunteers build (or you can buy) a medieval-style catapult (aka trebuchet). One person pulls the long, catap...
Trebuchet. In week five talked discussed different things you could launch from a trebuchet! including but not limited to. cars, flaming pianos, pumpkins, steel balls, tennis balls for dog fetching, water balloons, and basketballs. by Marko Velic...
Office supply catapult - also has link to a trebuchet :) i kind of didn't know where to put this but i love it!...
Study archimedes/catapult contest would be good around thanks giving time pumpkin chunkin by wetoatmealkisses...
The Big Book of Catapult and Trebuchet Plans by Ron Toms. Search for this and other pumpkin titles at...
Tuning A Trebuchet For Maximum Distance - A Look at the Components and Variables | DO IT: Projects, Plans and How-tos...