catupults?

[killed300ex]

Just a question you prolly wont know the answer but its worth the shot lol. For a school project need to build a catipult well i decided on the trebuche (sp) kind of catipult i have made up my desighns and stuff and its going to be decently easy to make but here is my question you have the arm then to through the material you have the sling anyone know how to make the sling and how to attach it to make it work correctly? I think it should turn out pretty sweet if i can get the sling right cause im gonna make it decently big so i can launch some stuff after i make it and do the project. I was thinking that the arm would end up being prolly like 2-2 1/2 feet long that way after i make it i can teririze the sea gulls at my farm lol shou be interesting if i get this one part right
killed

Any help would be great thanks

Ask mastaofdisasta on this one, he built a pretty cool one.

[killed300ex]

dont think it was a trebuche (sp) also i really wouldnt take his advice his ammo ended up going backwards lol i want mine to go forward lmao

killed

[killed300ex]

bump
killed

[Rip_Tear]

Sorry, I am not really sure on the sling, but you choose a cool design, I was going to make one.... but never did. Good luck!:D

[killed300ex]

i i got the idea off junkyard wars the show kicks ***** lol
killed

[Stevie-D]

make yourself a potato gun to go along with the catapult:p

[killed300ex]

lol i want to make an air compressed on of those :D thats oncei get some money. But i got the plans for the catipult. Its gonna be 30 inchs tall and have a 3 foot throughing arm and be able to through baseballs and tennis balls ill post some pics when i get it made. But yea later this winter ill have my redneck army collection complete lol potato pun and catipult
killed

[Stevie-D]

lol...
can i join your army?:p

i donty think masta is with us ne more

i think he is...

And it was a trebuche (sp), and it did throw forward. Chucked a Lead weight an acre..

[killed300ex]

wow an acre that must be one screwed up catipult lol an acre is an area not a distance an acre can be shaped pretty much any way you want it plus im building a clasic trebuche id say thats a pos trebuche lol
killed

OK.... are trebuche has a 9 foot tall throwing arm... and yours is going to be 2 feet tall....:rolleyes:

here is a picture of where the lead weight lands, you can see the trebuche in the background.

[Evan]

Get serious!!

This a treybuche that we made 2 yrs ago for a punkin chunkin contest for a radio station. Too bad it broke the boom, it would have chunked at least a half a mile. We used some website to calculate it all I cant remeber the site or I would give it to you. It had a 5000 pound chunk of concrete and the boom was about 70ft long.:eek:

[killed300ex]

thats awsome but all i want is a small one for now trust me if i like the one i have now and i htink its worth it my next one will be really really big lol but in my yard this is all i have room for so i just want some thing to play with
killed

Ps thats one huge trebushe that thing is sweet

[L.Vegas400]

i built one when i was a senior in high school used to launch baseballs, apples and such. we useda bag of lead shot for the counter weight. it worked great. i thing the arm was between 1.5-2 feet long.

[thelegendarycd]

trebuches are awesome. i've seen some shows on them before. the way x-rider did it is how ya gotta do it...those things go so far when set up right and that big.

[Fender Bender]

Killed, you could nail a mouse trap to a board and somehow attatch a spoon to the metal thing that snaps the mouses tail, and shoot stuff out of that. it sure works good for shooting krutons across the cafeteria:blah