New Trebuchet Design -- Walking Arm Trebuchet
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:50 pm
Hi everyone,
I thought people might be interested in a trebuchet design that I invented three years ago. Last year, my 8 year old son used it to set the all time record at the Vermont Pumpkin Chuckin' Festival. I won, too, in the heavyweight division. My son threw a 3 ounce ball 266 feet with his 20 pound, 41" tall trebuchet, and his scaled up score amounted to more than their estimate of mine. They never found my pumpkin. It was so high over the spotter that he never saw it fly into the woods.
My son and I just made an instructable showing how to build the trebuchet. Here's the link if you're interested... https://www.instructables.com/id/Worlds ... ing-Arm-T/
This is a video of one of my first tests of a 500 pound, 10 foot tall design. The counterweight is 450 pounds, and the rest adds up to a little less than 50. The projectile here is a soccer ball with rice and foam inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dwe3n9TEjE
This is my first post, so I apologize in advance if these links didn't work the way I thought they would.
Cheers,
Jonathan
I thought people might be interested in a trebuchet design that I invented three years ago. Last year, my 8 year old son used it to set the all time record at the Vermont Pumpkin Chuckin' Festival. I won, too, in the heavyweight division. My son threw a 3 ounce ball 266 feet with his 20 pound, 41" tall trebuchet, and his scaled up score amounted to more than their estimate of mine. They never found my pumpkin. It was so high over the spotter that he never saw it fly into the woods.
My son and I just made an instructable showing how to build the trebuchet. Here's the link if you're interested... https://www.instructables.com/id/Worlds ... ing-Arm-T/
This is a video of one of my first tests of a 500 pound, 10 foot tall design. The counterweight is 450 pounds, and the rest adds up to a little less than 50. The projectile here is a soccer ball with rice and foam inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dwe3n9TEjE
This is my first post, so I apologize in advance if these links didn't work the way I thought they would.
Cheers,
Jonathan
But effective from the sounds of it.