Man the Trebuchet!!!

Play the trebuchet challenge

http://www.globalspec.com/trebuchet/

Oh no .. you didn't !!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!! :smileyballs:

I got real work to do!! :bawling:

JR

he he, yea, I was fortunate enough to get it out of my system over the weekend. I don't see how the high scores are as much as they are. How does someone get almost 33,000? I haven't been able to get up to 3,000. I guess I'm a pretty poor excuse for a trebuchet operator?

after the fantactic contraption addiction I went through last week, I'm not even going to look at the link.

The Dude said:

after the fantactic contraption addiction I went through last week, I'm not even going to look at the link.

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I wish I had a way to measure the lost productivity that I cost all your companies for posting that link.

TREBUCHET! Every engineer should own one!

MAN THE TREBUCHET!

Trebuchet fire two!

Yes, this is what I have spent my Saturday making, now I just need to fine tune it so I can overthrow the world!

roadwreck said:

TREBUCHET! Every engineer should own one!
MAN THE TREBUCHET!

Trebuchet fire two!

Yes, this is what I have spent my Saturday making, now I just need to fine tune it so I can overthrow the world!

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Very nice! I need to make a potato gun first, then I will venture into the finer art of trebuchet construction.

I HATED physics!!!

Did anyone notice the fault in their description of how gravity wouldn't affect the distance? I can assure them, I fine tuned distance using NOTHING but gravity in the first challenge.

i have to remember to give this link to the hubby. He loves the fantastic contraption game, so I think he would like this one more.

I "helped" my son build a trebuchet for the science fair one year. the chocolate chucker threw hershey minis at a leggo castle for great effect!

cement said:

I "helped" my son build a trebuchet for the science fair one year. the chocolate chucker threw hershey minis at a leggo castle for great effect!

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That's great!

I remember seeing on group's trebuchet project in 8th grade (we had a choice of what to do, most built trebuchets, I did a small series of parallel and series circuits with lightbulbs to talk about the effects of resistance).

Well, when raising and lowering the arm slowly, they had no problems whatsoever. Unfortunately, when they actually tried to launch something, they didn't leave clearance for the counterweight when it tipped, so it always got stuck just short of half way.

cement said:

I "helped" my son build a trebuchet for the science fair one year. the chocolate chucker threw hershey minis at a leggo castle for great effect!

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Ah, yes. My Dad 'helped' me so many times....

But it was cool, wasn't it?

We had some kind of pumpkin chucking contest in jr high. I remember the guy who won the distance contest used rubberbands from a spear gun..

Crazy...

Good grief ... WHY did you revive this ??!!! I have way too much work to do!!!

JR

Oh you think this is bad? Snickerd mentioned the fantastic contraption game. I've been playing that non-stop for the past week (again)

We did the trebuchets in college and it was a hell of a lot of fun.

I remember seeing on Mythbusters about someone who built one big enough to hurl a car.

roadwreck said:

Oh you think this is bad? Snickerd mentioned the fantastic contraption game. I've been playing that non-stop for the past week (again)

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I would like to take this time to point out that I was the firs to bring this wonderful game to our humble online community.