Hey guys, since spydie owners tend to be more of a hands-on sort, I figured that you guys would appreciate seeing this kickstarter project that a friend and I just launched.
We've been working at a machine shop for the past month in order to get the tolerances good enough that the whole thing just snaps together, and any of you have access to laser cutters, you'll be interested to know that we'll be posting the full design files on our site, free for anyone to use, once the project succeeds.
Ha, I built one in high school, a meter and half tall. It was for physics class project and teacher said we were going to have a water balloon fight after. After seeing how the other catapults mostly consist of rubber bands, he said we aren't going to do it, since my trebuchet would slaughter everyone.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
If one builds trebuchets, one should read Lawdog's extended story of the Ratel Pit...which does in fact detail his erstwhile construction of a trebuchet...
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It is one of the funniest stories you will read online...Lawdog is quite the writer and well worth following his blog!
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Don't the sun look angry through the trees?
Don't the trees look like crucified thieves?
My nephew and I built one a couple years ago for his school project. His design, after we got it dialed in, it would fire a small Kong dog toy 100-120 feet. Of course, he later destroyed it launching objects that were too large and heavy. :rolleyes:
Seems they're rather popular to build, when I was 15 I made one that was a bit over 2 metres tall. Think the counterweight was over 40 kg, flung everything from tennis balls to apple sized rocks.
Will
"No one wants to look the fool. Everyone does the best they can. If they knew better, they'd do better" - old woman on the railway tracks to Sal.
Monkeywrangler wrote:If one builds trebuchets, one should read Lawdog's extended story of the Ratel Pit...which does in fact detail his erstwhile construction of a trebuchet...
You must search the archives for the posts on the following dates, in order.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
Friday, July 14, 2006
It is one of the funniest stories you will read online...Lawdog is quite the writer and well worth following his blog!
That is truly cool. I'm going to twist my wife's arm...my two college-age boys would have a blast with this...probably as much fun looking at what you've made and how you've designed the kits as assembling and "testing" them.
carpdiem wrote:Hey guys, since spydie owners tend to be more of a hands-on sort, I figured that you guys would appreciate seeing this kickstarter project that a friend and I just launched.
We've been working at a machine shop for the past month in order to get the tolerances good enough that the whole thing just snaps together, and any of you have access to laser cutters, you'll be interested to know that we'll be posting the full design files on our site, free for anyone to use, once the project succeeds.
I should build one of these down at my old farm - there's about 1/3 of a mile between the house and the reservoir, and noone to see me launching ridiculous crap, and even if they did they wouldn't complain out there.
There's more to building them than meets the eye. My oldest girl and I built one and needed to keep reinforcing the pivot, the counterwieght attachment, and then we were only so-so in our release mechanism. The throwing arm was about 4' and we had about 40# for weights.
Going to need to study up some more as it was good fun at backyard get togethers.
jimbo@stn24 wrote:There's more to building them than meets the eye. My oldest girl and I built one and needed to keep reinforcing the pivot, the counterwieght attachment, and then we were only so-so in our release mechanism. The throwing arm was about 4' and we had about 40# for weights.
Going to need to study up some more as it was good fun at backyard get togethers.
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