Timber Framers Guild Forums Tools Axe Throwing Things to do with your spare time

This is what I plan to do when I retire...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

I love his ingenious way of fastening the cable to the car...

TG, you really do rock... wish I had that kind of money to throw around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7il4fR0Pfc

OMG!
Now that's VERY cool!
Not quite something I myself would aspire to, though..

Cool thread on trebuchets at the forestry forum Trebuchet thread

I take it the youtube video is of a trbuchet? I can't see the videos, no high speed. Trebuchets are awesome!

Dave

Hi, Dave -
Ya, it's a retired, rich English guy with a lot of property and time to play. He built this 20 story trebechet with which he hucks flaming pianos and one small compact car. He shoots a hole in the windshield with his rifle in order to get the cable attached.
He is still not impressed with it, though....he wants to build one massive enough to throw a double decker bus!

My new hero.

Sounds like Hew Kennedy.


Dave

Here is the begining of a tabletop trebuchet I built a couple of days ago. I need to make a better throwing arm and a sling. Also it will have a movable counterweight. I will use it to test the effects different counterweights, sling lengths, and throwing arm ratios have on the flight path before I start engineering the full size one.




Dave

Dave, that's a very cool thing to do with your spare time. Do you have any resources to build such a weapon? And do you have someplace in mind that you plan to siege? If I agree with your target I could participate

I will be starting a logging job this winter, if I can find all the parts to my new, erector set skidder. There is a ton of really good oak on this job. Oak is cheap right now, especially stumpage. I also have access to a Wood Mizer. I hope to have timbers to start working this spring. I am still tying to get plans, however. I will be posting updates periodically at the Forestry Forum.


Dave