Trebuchet Student Class Project

My friend's daughter, who is also one of my karate students got to build a trebuchet for a class catapult contest at her school, so I offered to help. This is how it turned out. We need to add some heavier counterweights and it will fly much farther.

We got ideas for the design from this very helpful site:
http://hila.webcentre.ca/projects/trebuchet/index.htm
Our model is about 2.5 times the size of the desktop trebuchet on that site.

I had a lot of fun building this, now I want to make a big one :-)

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Film & Animation

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• trebuchet
• catapult
• school
• class
• project
• contest
• seige
• engine
• ballista

[Welles22r]

hey great trebuchet im building one for extra credit in history but i need help on the dimensions plz reply back thxx

[TheOnlyKingArthur]

There's a link in the description where I got the idea from.

[fearsomeaustin]

i wish i knew how to build a trebuchet similar to this! its required for my final, if anyone can help me at all please let me know!

[TheOnlyKingArthur]

There's a link in the description for plans to build a small trebuchet.

[brucelee7150]

wow thats really well made. i have to make one for my engineering course i think ill just copy urs :p

[F22Raptor66]

this would be cool with fire crackers

[MsCelebrityCrazy]

I'm going to build the same thing as on the website but twice as large so it fits my class project criteria, so when I do that do I double all the measurements including width and weight and everything?

[fishing8490]

how long was the base, length width, and height?

[fishing8490]

how far did it go and how long was the base?

[HCLivess]

need a 150 kg weight

[xDrumma4Lifex]

yes but will it blend

[Mrhanky576]

Yeah, but who reeeeeeaaaaaally made it? Class projects are for students, not parents!

[Snowman20]

Awww... that's SO cute... a mini trebuchet. Has she ever tried lighting a projectile on fire at night and then firing it off? Those look SO cool.

of course, fire extinguisher on hand or water is always good. My Auntie and Uncle used to let me fire arrows at a high arc with a flaming ball of wool or other flammable material at the end. I always enjoyed watching them sail great distances. It did help to have my older cousins on quads with water buckets to put them out very soon afterwards.

[DarkMaroon2]

@ everyone saying they have to build one.. lol you are all lucky i wish i could use school as an excuse to build a trebuchet.