Here is the first trebuchet that we've ever built. We looked up instructions online and researched different styles and history. This trebuchet, because of the size, shoots projectiles up to.75lbs, which is approximately 1/75 of the weight of the counterweight. Many people think this is a catapult, ...
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My dad and I put this together to launch crab traps. The current design will launch 2 1# water balloons 30 yards on a quiet day. Originally, the Trebuchet was built to shorten a siege on a castle - by breaching the walls and throwing nasty stuff inside the castle. This is by far a better use...
A cut little baby trebuchet and its big brother. Threw a water balloon 161 feet. I got the plans from...
In the evening on the edge of the Everglades, it took about 30 minutes to assemble by 12 people that had never built a siege weapon before. The ice-ball projectiles were created by freezing water balloons the size of honeydew melon (rubber removed before throwing). Range was about 300 feet. There wa...
Two kids testing out how painful a 40lb. is when dropped from 3 stories...
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This is a video I created of the testing of my catapult that I made for my physics project. The catapult uses bicycle inner-tubes and bungee cords to fire water-balloons and sometimes lacrosse balls. It is also made out of wood, screws. bolts, a lacrosse head, bublble wrap and a steel rod (originall...
My trebuchet I made for a Physics project last year. To get an A, I had to shoot a water balloon 30 meters. There were several balloons within each other, so they rarely popped. For (tons of) extra credit, we were one of 4 groups (out of 40 or 50 groups) to hit Mr Boucher. Don't be fooled by the umb...
After several hundred water-balloon launches and many deeply satisfying direct hits, my 7-year-old trebuchet engineers show the benefit of a week's intensive training with this accurate scale model of a 13th century artillery piece. I doubt if any medieval siege-team ever worked together more effici...
This is a 3 or 4 lb balloon fired by my treb. with a 40lb weight on it. Ranging in the area of 60 to 70 feet...
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Here is a video that I recorded with a few GoPros and a Nikon D3100. This video will show you what it takes to build a Floating Arm Trebuchet from start to finish. We decided to go with a fairly popular version of it, however there are a few different versions of the Floating Arm Trebuchet. In our c...
Hybrid torsion catapult I made for a school project. Sorry about the wind noises but I can't really help that. This is one of the first shots we took, we were just guessing with the tension and angle of release. After some modifications I have it shooting close to 450 feet. Its a true thing of beaut...
Hubby and boys made this trebuchet in a week out of spare wood and some hardware after being inspired at the Great Lakes Medeival Faire. Here, hubby is launching waterballons at our sons!...
Approximately halfway between Weisbach and the Wysburg there has been build a fully functional scale model of a trebuchet ( tribock or blide ). Each summer this siege engine will be put to use 3 of 4 times, albeit not for warfare but instead for more festive occasions like on the archaeological fiel...
See the full review at The KAOS Water Balloon Catapult enables kids (and adults) to launch water balloons up to 150 feet. It is made from durable cloth and features stretchy rubber handles. You will need three people to work the catapult: two people to hold the rubber grips and one person to place t...
Made from scratch. It wasn't very well engineered. and some church volley ball at the end...
Spent a weekend teaching trebuchet building techniques and assembling a mid-sized catapult with Craftsman at their MAKECation getaway. Then we shot water balloons over the roof of the Lake Arrowhead Resort. Fun...
Devin & Khristian with their award winning trebuchet project. Trebuchet stats: Arm ratio 5:1 Throwing arm 50", short arm is 10" Counter weight ratio is 145:1 (52 1/2 lbs of counter weight, throwing balloons avrg. 5.8oz) Sling length is 40" (80% of throwing arm) Maximum distance 22...
Gav and Dan start a water balloon fight with over a thousand people and film it at 2500fps. It does not end well for them. Follow Gav on Twitter - Follow Dan on Twitter Filmed with a Phantom Flex Geek Week - Slow Motion Water Balloon Fight with 1500 people Starring Freddie Wong - The Slow Mo Guys...
This dad convinced his kids to lay under a trampoline while he filled up a water balloon until it was bigger than all the kids combined. It finally exploded and soaked all the kids while the parents laughed. Original Link: SUBSCRIBE: LIKE us on FACEBOOK FOLLOW us on TWITTER FOLLOW us on INSTAGRAM RE...
Trebuchet. No plans, but could probably eyeball it from the picture...