Warwick Castle Trebuchet

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• Warwick
• Castle
• Trebuchet

[misomalu]

@The150dirtbike Ya but the common wealth seem to kick your ass in: medicare, education, public approval, and grammar too

[walkergarya]

This was built to demonstrate what real trebuchets looked like and what they could do. Nobody has a monopoly on being clever, but some Americans seem to want to monopolise ignorance!

[KenMacMillan]

@Dutchdude231 Whatever they want.

[Dutchdude231]

@KenMacMillan So at what are they throwing it then?

[hogo1]

so those hamster wheels allow it to be drawn into firing position quicker?

[KenMacMillan]

@Dutchdude231 Punkin Chunkin has a trebuchet competition as well as the cannons & the others. In fact the the 2011 winner, named Yankee Siege, threw a pumpkin 709 meters last year.

[Dutchdude231]

@The150dirtbike The Punkin Chunkin things can't even be called trebuchets because they aren't made the way they have to be made. And do you even now what a trebuchet is for? Well a trebuchet was a medieval siege weapon used to sling large rocks at enemy building, sometimes it was also used to spread diseases among the enemy by using dead bodies instead of rocks.

[drsimonmonk]

If you fancy making your own much smaller back garden trebuchet, then there are full plans and instructions in my book "15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius". Available from Amazon etc.

[SouloftheDragon]

I helped wind this thing today. I hope to be Trebuchet Master by Easter. If you're planning in April. Make sure you see it. It will be having a new arm put on which will increase it's (allowed) range from 100m to 160m. It is capable of shooting to 600m but there's a housing estate there. Seriously. This thing is THE most badass thing I've ever worked with.

[bjggjb]

@Slotty Ever hear of Lend-Lease? It's what kept you guys in the war prior to America officially entering it. In mid-1940 (prior to the US entry into the war) President Roosevelt authorized shipments of weapons and ammunition to Britain... BTW, a LOT of American merchant seamen died bringing it to you (thanks to Hitler's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, which very nearly starved your nation into defeat at that time.)

So the next time you see an American - you better smile, mate.

[Slotty]

@bjggjb yeah :P sure.. US didnt even want to help to begin with but they got dragged into it because the Japs attacked you ;) + you were trading Oil to Germany before you entered :P + USA didnt win the war. Soviet did ;)

[bjggjb]

@24SparrowJack Sorry to tell you this, but your British leaders are just as dickheaded as our American leaders (Tony Blair, anyone???)

Also, how did you "help" us? Last I checked, we dragged YOUR bacon out of the fire in that little dispute you had with Hitler (Lend-Lease, D-Day ect.)