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Folks, For the recent TexLUG medieval siege weapon contest, I constructed a floating-arm trebuchet. Here are some annotated photos: (URL) the record, the trebuchet achieved the longest distance launch of the contest projectile (a glued 4x4x3 cube of (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic) !
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| | Re: Ziggurat: a floating-arm trebuchet
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(...) "thing". Then he says it's a trebuchet. Oh, it is? This brick-flinging giant hurled many a brick, and a paper wad. It was most impressive! Definitely a crowd pleaser. What the Ziggurat lacked in rate of fire was compensated by ultra-long range (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Ziggurat: a floating-arm trebuchet
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(...) That's quite impressive! And I also see (from the videos @ texlug) that Pat had trouble keeping up with the distance :) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Many thanks. I optimized the design for launch distance, and whatever points I got for repeat launch rate or accuracy were a bonus. I think Pat scored highest on launch rate, so the scores ended up fairly balanced. The videos came from the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Ziggurat: a floating-arm trebuchet
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(...) That's very cool and nicely explained, but jeezopeetes those images were HUGE! I'd love to see a movie of it being fired. I'm sure it's an impressive sight. Adrian (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) [...] (...) I suppose, since I got the cable modem, I'm less sensitive to low-bandwidth users than I was when I had dialup. I didn't want to shrink the pictures too much, or the text would be too small to read. (...) There is a small movie of (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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