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Trebuchet

This trebuchet launches softball size water balloons 50 - 70 yards using human (kid) power.  It is portable (quickly folds down for car top carrying) and uses easy to acquire supplies found at Home Depot or Lowes Home Improvement. I originally designed this for the kids area of the Lake Eden Arts Festival (theLEAF.org) where we launched water balloons at a large cardboard castle.  Later, I was asked by a TEDx event to set these up to provide "hands on science" for conference attendees.

Website: http://www.tomheck.com
Location: Asheville, NC
Members: 4
Latest Activity: May 22, 2012

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Another Trebuchet

Started by Kaptain Jack May 17, 2012. 0 Replies

It all started when our neighbour across the valleychallenged everyone to a siege engine competition....A friend stopped by, and said,"Why not build a trebuchet?""What's a trebuchet" - where the last…Continue

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Comment by Daniel Donahoo on March 18, 2012 at 11:01pm

Love to see some video - make sure you put it in the video section of the site here too! Sounds like all you need are some wooden shields and swords and you could have a fully fledged battle where the students use the shields and swords to defend themselves from the water balloon volly.

Comment by Tom Heck on March 18, 2012 at 10:49pm

Hi Daniel -- Thanks for positive feedback.  I'm working on posting some video of this trebuchet in action.   Hope to post later this week.  I did a demo last week at a middle school.  The science teacher is a friend and he was teaching about levers.  Every student took a turn hurling water balloons.  They loved it!

Comment by Daniel Donahoo on March 18, 2012 at 10:44pm

Damn. That is some serious siege material right there. Love that it folds up and you can fit it in the car to transport easily to the next battle :)

 

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