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| Wow by Senor Barborito 05/10/2003, 11:16pm PDT | ||||
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| First of all, you rule and are my new fucking God. I worship you, almighty creativepig. I can't believe you actually built a trebuchet.
Secondly, here is a link to the program I saw. Essentially a 20-foot long, 5-foot thick, recreation of the top 10 feet of a standard limestone and mortar castle wall complete with hoarding vs 2 different 2-3 story trebuchets made by 40 professional carpenters over a week or so on their vacation. One with fixed lead weights, the other with a 12-ton-capacity swinging bucket design. Each launching perfectly round 250-lb. stone bullets at said wall. Now both used wheels because the forward momentum of the arm will cause the trebuchet to rock forward, or seriously stress its base, while wheels allow the weight to move downward in a completely straight line because as the weight moves downward and back, the trebuchet itself is traveling forward. In a swinging bucket design this is further emphasized because the bucket swings out forward and allows even further energy-maximizing straight-downward motion for the counterweight. Then, the swinging bucket design sharply turns a 90-degree angle in motion backwards, forcing the whole trebuchet to roll backwards and at the same time again maximizing energy for the throwing arm. It's quite ingenious, and regardless of swinging bucket (which is what yours was) or fixed-weight design, both of the trebuchets in the NOVA program punched holes that went straight through to the other side of the wall (you could see through the wall at the impact point in both cases). Anyways, accomplishing what you did even with fixed base from 'some stuff I saw in AOE2' is simply incredible, and my hat is off to you several times over - this reminds me of the kind of thing my dad did constantly when I was a kid. If you need a spare hand for doing this kind of thing again, I grew up amidst a world of ongoing carpentry projects (building sheds when I was 8 and 12, constantly tearing down and rebuilding new and more reinforced tree forts, etc.) and would love to lend a hammering hand. --SB |
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Wow by 05/10/2003, 5:59am PDT  Saturday Afternoons are Boring by 05/10/2003, 3:23pm PDT congrats, you lost the soul patch NT by 05/10/2003, 4:39pm PDT Wow by 05/10/2003, 11:16pm PDT |
