The LEGO Trebuchet

[MrMorasmus]

Eh, its quaint and kinda cute but i think you'd get more distance if you make the base stationary. Seems that alot of the forces at work are being put into the movement of base and not into the arm,

[GrayhamCracker]

And this, my friends, is a sign you need a life.

[MPSecare]

that is just bad ass!!!!

[MrJedhouse]

TUTORIAL!

[TheTravianhero]

Legoland would be doomed if u used some of these trebuchets :D

[wingedspycat4]

what are the figure called PLEASE REPLY!!

[wiipspdscoder]

wow the best trebuchet i ever seen ;) like it so much

[SiMpsonIzer01]

FUN

[legoking97]

What did you use in the container for the counterweight

[purplemutantas]

Nice! I like it. Well done.

[joshuaburdog]

awsome



[junkman661]

THUMBS UP for tool.

[4E047RHH]

A lot of effort went into that! well done good job with the vid too

[Dr904]

Cool!

[XTheManWithoutNameX]

totally amazing .

[MandaKruz21]

Wth? Bloods and crips workin' together?

[1234Spazz]

nice build

[MastrNinja1]

kinda killed it seeing ur foot

[MrDionskie]

a lego?

[DimsMUXAXA]

omg is it your design?

[ToshiroHyorinmaru91]

NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bogie3Flare]

@ToshiroHyorinmaru91 In other words future Engineers?Thanks

[ToshiroHyorinmaru91]

@Bogie3Flare no

[Bogie3Flare]

@ToshiroHyorinmaru91 Well I guess-according to you- I'm a case study considering I grew up with Legos, and still play -with them and majoring in Engineering.

What did you grow up with? Anime? You wanna be one of the faggot Japanese made Americans?

[ToshiroHyorinmaru91]

@Bogie3Flare sure, shit if you'd think I'd be good at it.

[jumpgangsta1]

tutorial plz i like it!

[nicjo25]

instructions? please....:(

[Alucard205555]

wow

[extremerater92]

laaaaaame, lego neeerd alert....

[Djich1]

make a bild instruktion from the mechanismus

mfg

[weetnietgeen]

greaat!! but i'll bet you that if you anker your trebuchet to the ground on something solid, you would shoot waaay further :D

[benj1709]

try putting wheels under it insted of rail

[bornoforo]

joder como mola!! es una pasada!!! 5/5!!

[oOoxelAoOo]

That ratchet mechanism is genius.

[easytolearnmagicstuf]

Vuilt my own little trebuchet that fires about 2 metres; NOTHING compared to yur work!

5 stars!

[Paradiddler45]

12 stars for Tool

[MrKaddan]

Better than mine. Congrats oO

[eat4peace]

putting it on the train tracks was a great idea it reduses the stress on it when it shakes

[slidewerks]

OMG A 8KG CONTER WEIGHT!!

nice work me likey

[Paradiddler45]

Eh, the counterweight is 0.875 kg

[SporeSpood]

@Paradiddler45 how is that possible? i use +- 3 kg

[r0y1996]

amaaaaziing

[Galacticmaster]

thats good,

[viksox13]

Tool is Cool.

[MasterMovieStudio]

nice work 5/5

[eddiemarasco]

That thing absolutely destroys.  Nice soundtrack, too. Good work.

[puliukko13]

what you used as projectile?

[neofunface]

nice tool song

[jessekarate08]

nice job man 5/5

[BrechtBonneux]

nice vid and trebuchet, i give you 5/5

(1 tip, if you would make the arm a little longer, and the counterweight heavier, it would fly even further =)

keep making more vids!

[Finch2009]

Sweet! Awesome build.

[mistermasterplan099]

amazing :O

[weetnietgeen]

somewhat like a railgun :P

[xXxHipHopMasterxXx]

imagine how far the limone would fly when the trebuchet would be 20 high and the limone would be a stone with 100 kg^^

[querqus470]

excellent!!!!!

[pimmo91]

thats great!

[Downfacingdog]

Very well done, Sir!!!! Hurah!!!!

[1337judas]

sweetness

[Mannom41]

Tool! Instant win!!!

[stalf0]

-T O O L -

[1010weed0101]

if the counter weight is 10 kg it would shoot like 25 meters

[tering2]

And the plastic constructure would break.

[dl7666]

cool

[RK5000]

I am impressed.

[magemager0]

WOW very impressive for legos, and the counterweight is 134X heavier than ur ammunition, what did u use for ur counterweight?

[double1967]

LOL! The siege engineers called upon the "giant hand" for help. ;-)

Kiddin' of course. Nice job.

[fireflyworlds]

Nice Trebuchet!

[2nevermore]

I build one a few years ago that threw a small ball bearing over 21 feet

[BrechtBonneux]

if you wanne trow the object further u need to do 2 things : more counter weight and make the arm longer (the ammunition stays the same) it's yust math =)

[footballforeva]

or make the stgring shorter

[nitrox027]

that is intense

[samthekingyo]

You should try making a lego house and firing this at it :)

[vigr]

nice trebuchet

[doomgiver107]

awesome but newer lego :(

[65RD123]

soooo close to the wall

[ColoradoLegoMaster]

please make a trebuchet tutorial

[Schaasdackchn]

You're great!

[Funkwelle]

I have tried it too, but it threw objects only 1 metre far

[TheEggyThing]

Amazing. I built a smaller trebuchet once, but it didn't throw objects as far.

[fragilez]

what do u use as counter weight?

[ConsilienceTeacher]

Well done.

I had a couple of students build a large one with pine trees they milled with chain saws. It would throw a 5lb rock 200yards or so.

[TheEggyThing]

In my physics class, a clasmate built a wooden trebuchet that fit in the back of his pickup. I don't know the exact range, but it could fling watermelons a pretty good distance. Then he played skeet shoot with the melons, which got messy. :)

[iRtehSHIZ]

Now you just have to build a lego castle and fill lego bombs with gasoline and launch them so they explode when they hit.

[postitnote7]

friggin sweet  i like the way u used the lego ppl nice

[adam4397]

woa

[m4thg33k]

nice cinematography.can that thing kill?

[Spazoflife]

Pretty sweet for a lego treb.

Great idea with the tracks, I wished I had thought of that for my physics assignment!

[theguy121111]

dude i love your creation! try entering in guiness world records.. u might get in!

[hockeydude5026]

holy crow. Now I feel inferior with my puny catapult I built out of spare NXT parts

[emouchia]

siiiiiik

[cavceltfan23]

haha sweet...that is a nice camera

[fukuyoufukinfuk]

wats the song and great job i would never be able to do that lol

[Lauv]

Right in two-Tool

[keith29241]

thats awesome and it helped alot with my own little project. im going going to make a trebuchet crash course. its going to be made out of wood and it will be around four feet long.

[KapikxD]

cool! xD

[M0NNESS]

nicely done

[nvanl]

whoerah Good Jop

[cabnnt378]

:O

whoah. good job

[Dominator046]

That! Is a war machine!

[JanSze123]

wow. We made something similar. But it wasn't a trebuchet it was a cannon. It shot like 20 metres and it went trough a ca. 1 cm thick paper.

[Reepicheep77]

Whoever made this is a genius.

[nuclearnate]

ill buy that from yoU! lol

[henkezorreen]

tool!

[MrCriticOfAll]

Did that come in kit form or did you just think one day-Shit i might build a trebuchet.Which ever!That is really cool.

[alexfrias6]

wow te quedo padre =b luego me dices en un mensaje kmo aserla o kojsejos o no se bn de todas maneras los dos somos mexicanos jejeje

[tranman978]

wow thats a lot of semen

[cyber8000]

the siege engeners look like fags

[stevej71393]

I always loved Lego. I wish I had the patience to build cool stuff like this.

[praling]

lol fire off some lego heads, just like the good ol medeival days!

[ThemLizards]

... is this really lego?

[sweepea38]

Wow....This is Pretty cool!!!! I havent seen someone every try to make a trebuchet in a long time...well maybe never...

[vpdabholkar]

COOOLL!!

[durdurdurairsoft]

these kind people live on red bull and cup 'o' noodles.

[kuqi320]

sounds good to me!

[tony667565656565565]

can some one tell me how to place the ropes

[otterjs]

Ive got 11,251 2x1 lego bricks at my disposal in my bedroom, im a lego freak, ive made mini weapons but i want to make somthing large on the scale of a trebuchet, if anyone has any ideas for me on how to make this, please reply =D

[Fredburphle]

Super badass

[bombercat123]

badass

[whitestripes81]

lol on a boy scout trip to the rod and gun club we took the wodden trevesia we built lol

[SuperMarvMarv]

very nice work

[noodle0117]

that was far, considering how small the trebuchet is.

[sweepea38]

i cant remmember when but long ago they used it as a portable long range seige weapon for...well seiging!!!lol

[alienseek360]

my god. fucking awesome! fucking awesome that u used tool for the bg music too. but seriously, i love it.

...seriously!

xD

[edwardpoppy]

awesome!

i want one XD

[xDkyle12]

holy shit that is what u can make lego out of wow i want 1 lol

[Thatpersonrawr]

Holy Shit This Is Awesome

[xxxlotus000]

This is positively TREMENDOUS. Kudos.

[Teambbg]

never put tool on a video that has to deal with legos'

[Aloysius458]

I wonder if you put these in paint ball games?

[ronaldmcrae]

Nice job.

[Ahkbitte]

epic, just soo damn epic

[lakko22]

where the minifigs really need for the machine

[mentalfreak95]

by the way, are those minifigs lego? cause these minifigs have a lot of joints.

[frosken22]

the minifigs are from tecno lego

[mentalfreak95]

thanks

[missamberneely]

That is wicked sweet. Very, very nice.

[valibauer]

thats soooooo cool...

!!please tell me how the igger mechanisc work!!

Ive build a trebuchet too, but it isnt so strong...

[CyberneticWarrior]

Make the counterweight heavier

[valibauer]

yes...

but the igger machanisc is what don not work on my trebuchet...

[CyberneticWarrior]

1. I can't read your spelling

2. I can't understand your spelling

3. I can't understand what you're trying to tell me with broken english

[valibauer]

sorry i'm not good at spelling english

i'm from austria....

[CyberneticWarrior]

ah...I see. So the counterweight isn't the problem for you?

[Lawrencealvarez]

that is incredible

[BenDaHen123]

woo go tool! greatest band on the planet, and nice trebuchet

[Subconscionaut]

I salute the siege crew and their brave efforts!

[rishigautam500]

lol, that's awesome

[ArcadiaH69S]

Oh my... that's awesome!

I want to make one myself. :D

[you900001]

truly amazing

[SashVids]

the wooden one we made is smaller and much stronger

[adieirfan49]

that awesome

[adieirfan49]

that awesome

[AlionXeer]

Well done nice firing angle too! I made one for a physics experment. Found out that if you dont have it moving in the plain the projecttile is firing. But instead hinge the counter wait it works about 2% better

[Paxmax]

awesome! Great power!

[sebbe9595]

OMG! nice dude

[Icanjive]

Nicely done lads. I've built a 1.5 metre (apex of the 'A' frame) one myself. Top fun catapulting flaming tennis balls at midnight when pissed let me tell you. And I made one from Mc Donald's coffee sticks (144 units). Yeah they did the right thing, by allowing the frame to move along the horizontal plane during firing, the counter-weight falls in a more vertical line which transfers more kinetic-energy to the projectile.

[Tolae]

the way that the trebuchet rocks when it fires... would that not take some power out of the throw? i'm no expert so i don't know, just wondering that's all :-) cool video btw :-D

[tehJamis]

No. As far as I understand them, it's better for it to rock because that allows the counterweight to come straight down, allowing for a more efficient transfer of the potential energy of the counterweight.

[Tolae]

ah i see that makes sense... instead of the counterweight moving sideways for a lot of the time and wasting the energy that gravity is exerting on it :-)

[imamamba]

Coool nice video ... good ideas :)!!...and your presentation ...Excellent!!

[and7barton]

It always starts off small........ You might end up like I did - building a treb with an eighteen-foot long arm. It could throw a 1 pound iron ball 300 feet in a flat trajectory.

[tuginator]

Throw arm and stand not quite tall enough for the weight, but really nice design guys. I like how you used the differential :)

[Sperluigi]

Cool. What else can you build?

[delvar01]

I wonder if he used tension in his firing arm or if it was just the gravity on the counterweight.

[therealswarvey]

just me, but i thought trebuchet's were designed a counter weight, and a catapault used tension :-?

[tuginator]

Catapault and ballista use tension in spring metal or wood, trebuchets are strictly counter-weight.

[giglywiglygo]

Cool! make it remote controlled lol

[pumkinheads360]

that goes far good job

[insanemusicfreak]

nice dude

[knmx847]

:o

q fome

[agenthello22]

yea he gets 100s of babes while my football and gutair skils only get me a few

[robbyrne22]

Amazing!

[narutoman555]

primitive yet powerful

[LclTechie]

That is amazing

[reitwn]

to much fuken time

[x0lacrossechic0x]

lovely

[joecooper18]

btw, if you had the thing fixed to the ground and not on the track, it will work better. energy is being lost as it pushes it self back when it launches.

[Tsumasaki01]

Actually the guy has the right idea.

A wheeled trebuchet does fire farther when the counterweight is fixed, however since he has a free counterweight its not 100% necessary, but probably does add to efficiency. removing the tracks at this point would decrease the range.

Infact energy is not restricted when the track is there.

keep up the good work.

[000razo000]

wow...u did ur homework

[ronfake1]

Yeah, but wait 'til the lego ministry of labor shows up and sees this!

[tber10]

youve got to show me how to buid this