by pneum0 » Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:42 pm
Pneum0 aka Mark Worden of Marysville Wa. Checking in.
As a few may guess I have built a few "leaf blowers" in my past, but in college we launched a pony keg of water nearly 2 football fields using 20 yards of gravel in a 1/2 length sea-van as a counter weight.
I am facebook friends with Leonard Vance thevdeveloper of the Murlin Trebuchet design. He modeled me up a pumpkin sized version. Just saving my $ and cents till I can afford to build.
I am also casual friends with the Carltons of Carlton farms which provides most of the pumpkins to the Snohomish Hurl. I hope that if/when I build they will let me test at the farm, as I am just down the road.
Cross an Aerospace Structures Stress Engineer with a pile of scrap metal/wood and fiberous materials, usually results in physics toys.