Replyed to a post about building a catapult not too long ago.
Well the thread was short lived and is….where-ever…
But I buit a Trebuchet not too long ago,just for the heckofit,and Was wondering if anybody else has built anything totaly just for the heckorit?
DW thought I was totally nuts as I was hurling copper fittings around the basement but, Carpenters built these things many years ago.
Not only did we build homes but,we built weapons of mass distruction.
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once made a water wheel driven xylophone type doo dad..a music box type cylinder that had pegs that tripped hammers that struck wine bottles tuned by varing the amount of water in them..set it out in the cow pasture crick and let her play all nite long..Roy Underhill made one that played "under my thumb", mine plated "stairway to heaven"..over and over and over..drove the cows crazy..they'ed stare at it all the time..it was just outta stomping reach..got destroyed with the first summer gully washer..
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Potato canons.
What we call the "kitty condo". A box that is ply inside and out with 2" foam insulation all around and a bench top. Cat might get cold, ya know.
Something is what it does.
Tennis ball canon 2" schedule 40
You can make one of those out of the can the balls came in just cut the bottom off. a little lighter fluid and presto. I think the last time I did that was 25 years ago.
I seem to remember from a long long time ago something about a 6 foot bong out of PVC but it is pretty hazy.
>> ... a 6 foot bong out of PVC but it is pretty hazy.
Snork, snork.
What color was the haze, man?
I had a semi-industrious neighbor back in college who duct taped bottomless Pringles cans for the same affect. Problem was it took two people to get the one guy a toke...
Another college days creation came after too many times waking to the sound of a record scratching endlessly, I rigged up a tone arm lifter out of a dime, plastic floor wax lid, sewing needles and thread, candle wax, and brass ball for a counterweight. It worked great until I ran out of money once and needed the dime.
No but Serena Williams does
I think making for the sake of making goes with the territory
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
We just lashed together a trebuchet as a Scout project. There's a reason they made those things with stout timbers and mortise and tenon joints. We got a couple of shots out of it before it started to self destruct. It accomplished its main mission, though. It kept a bunch of pubescent boys off the streets and out of trouble for half a day.
Arguing with a Breaktimer is like mud-wrestling a pig -- Sooner or later you find out the pig loves it.
I think I'm hooked on trebuchet.
Going to build another,bigger though.
Maybe hurl bowling balls or somthing.
If not built strong enough,these things can kill you!
There's a rich guy a couple of miles from me in Bridgewater, CT, who has a pumpkin chunkin' contest every fall. There are still several monster trebuchets set up in his fields. I'll try to take a picture and post it one of these days.
Arguing with a Breaktimer is like mud-wrestling a pig -- Sooner or later you find out the pig loves it.
PBS has a program about "How they did it" or some such about building antique whatevers.
They did one on trebuchets, built a couple as I remember and then tried knocking down some stone walls.
The wall knocking took a lot of messing with before they found the trick to aiming & where to hit the walls, but eventually it was successful.
They were throwing some pretty good sized stones quite a distance.
Joe H
FHB had that trebuchet on the back cover a few years back. It was built by the Timber Framers Guild and some VMI cadets. Pretty cool. I'd have liked to have been there.
AndyArguing with a Breaktimer is like mud-wrestling a pig -- Sooner or later you find out the pig loves it.
Andy,
Out here, "SPUD GUNS" seem to be the rage. Ever heard of one? Lots of kids here seem to build them. If you Google it, you'll see what I'm talking about.
Jon
I've even heard them go foom. I like 'em.Arguing with a Breaktimer is like mud-wrestling a pig -- Sooner or later you find out the pig loves it.