Anybody have a spare 25k pounds?
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The Qs & As on that listing are hilarious, and are worth a look on their own. 
My friends Kevin and Patty from the Rennfaire circuit make wooden catapults, trebuchets and ballistae kinda similar to that one. Their small ones will fit on a counter or in your hand and shoot mini-marshmallows, but they had one at Georgia Faire that was big enough to launch a golf ball from the Faire site to downtown Fairburn...a distance of a bit over half-a-mile. Sadly, we never tried to test it.
(Apparently Kevin made one once that would loft a grand piano, but I'm not sure how far.)
The nifty thing is, they actually called here while I was looking at that eBay listing. Here's their site.
My friends Kevin and Patty from the Rennfaire circuit make wooden catapults, trebuchets and ballistae kinda similar to that one. Their small ones will fit on a counter or in your hand and shoot mini-marshmallows, but they had one at Georgia Faire that was big enough to launch a golf ball from the Faire site to downtown Fairburn...a distance of a bit over half-a-mile. Sadly, we never tried to test it.
(Apparently Kevin made one once that would loft a grand piano, but I'm not sure how far.)The nifty thing is, they actually called here while I was looking at that eBay listing. Here's their site.
I've got a little desktop catapult, but it's made of metal, not wood. I'd love to have a desktop trebuchet.
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That would give a WHOLE new dimension to those fall pumpkin tosses...
Courtesy of the show, Little People Big World, which is on TLC. It's a reality show about the Roloff family that runs a farm in Oregon. They built a pumpkin trebuchet and a few family members were injured on one of the episodes.
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oh, lol!
The crew for the movie Timeline also built a real working trebuchet for the filming, aiming it and loosing projectiles at a target that later became the blue-screened castle. If you have the DVD, it's worth watching the 'making of.'
--Note that I don't say they 'fired' it because....there's no fire involved. This is a common mistake, made even in LOTR: The Two Towers.
I made that mistake (with bows and arrows) in my short story and the first time it was edited, years before it was published, the manuscript came back from the editor* with "Arrows are shot or loosed. They are never, EVER fired!" writ large, in red, on the margin. It's a mistake I'e never made again.
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* Michael Moorcock himself
The crew for the movie Timeline also built a real working trebuchet for the filming, aiming it and loosing projectiles at a target that later became the blue-screened castle. If you have the DVD, it's worth watching the 'making of.'
--Note that I don't say they 'fired' it because....there's no fire involved. This is a common mistake, made even in LOTR: The Two Towers.
I made that mistake (with bows and arrows) in my short story and the first time it was edited, years before it was published, the manuscript came back from the editor* with "Arrows are shot or loosed. They are never, EVER fired!" writ large, in red, on the margin. It's a mistake I'e never made again.
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* Michael Moorcock himself
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I made that mistake (with bows and arrows) in my short story and the first time it was edited, years before it was published, the manuscript came back from the editor* with "Arrows are shot or loosed. They are never, EVER fired!" writ large, in red, on the margin. It's a mistake I'e never made again.
Someone should tell all the archers.
Though I personally always say shoot, I'm pretty sure I have heard archers refer to firing. Language is fluid, and terms come to be used in different ways all the time. It drives me up the wall sometimes (see inflammable/flammable) but it happens just the same.Shaye
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Yeah, but my archers weren't using fire arrows.
Maybe they should have been.
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Maybe they should have been.
How were they supposed to know Saruman was bringing gunpowder to the party? It's not like it had ever been used in (tech-level 5) Middle-Earth before.....
