Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles

upi ^ | Oct. 26, 2009

[JoeProBono]

HUGO, Minn.- Four Minnesota friends fashioned a medieval catapult to fling a variety of objects -- such as wheelchairs and obsolete appliances -- into the sky, they said.

The men, all in their 30s, built a trebuchet -- a catapult originally designed in the Middle Ages to hurl objects at castle walls -- the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press reported Sunday.

The trebuchet was built by Kurt Modert, of Hugo; Roger Bacon, of White Bear Lake; Ryan Krueger, of Maple Grove; and David Proehl, of New Hope -- all municipalities in Minnesota -- the newspaper said.

They're catapulting items like defective bowling balls for now but they plan eventually to launch a clothes dryer, the newspaper said.

The friends began construction in spring 2008. The trebuchet is made of lumber, landscape timbers, aluminum plates and old garage door panels.

"It's stuff you can get at any Menard's. Kurt doesn't have much of a life, so he was working on the trebuchet all the time, said Bacon.

The full-scale catapult is constructed and permanently mounted on Modert's mother's 12-acre residential property , just a few yards from her house.

"It's too big to move," Modert said.

The friends are not certain how the project, which cost them $2,500, will affect the Modert's mother's property value.

"The tax assessor did come out earlier this year, and we're waiting to see what he says," Bacon said.

[JoeProBono]

[KoRn]

/mark

[P8riot]

More HERE

[DuncanWaring]

Nova Builds a Trebuchet.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

Thank you! Thank you!

I was beginning to worry if I would ever be able to use this fantastic gif.............

[RichInOC]

[cue Peter Stormare and Tre]

“Vat time is it?”
“I dunno.”
“Time...to unpimp ze auto!”

[JoeProBono]

BAHAHAHA!!

[JoeProBono]

VW Unpimp !!!

[Hot Tabasco]

Four Minnesota friends fashioned a medieval catapult to fling a variety of objects -- such as wheelchairs and obsolete appliances

Not only is Minnesota cold and dreary with nothing to do in the winter, but it can get pretty lonely too. Good thing those four guys have a hobby......

[Hot Tabasco]

Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles

Personally I always prefered throwing the boiling oil from the top of the castle wall after the french fries were done.......

[mefistofelerevised]

that guy knows how to show his girlfiend a good time

[thethirddegree]

Will it work for 2500 page long Health Reform Bils? Members of Congress and ACORN?

[Lockbar]

Hmmmmmm, I am hardly a lib, but to me hurling a wheel chair is pretty dis-tasteful. Somewhere in the world there are disabled people who could use them. A wrecked dish washer I don’t care about.

[Daffynition]

Reuse and recycle. That's the spirit.

[I Buried My Guns]

"...A wrecked dish washer I don’t care about..."

But somewhere is a man with dirty clothes. Oh, the humanity!

[Daffynition]

"that guy knows how to show his girlfiend [sic] exgirlfriend a good time"

[Moonman62]

From Northern Exposure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppShcRlJeZI&NR=1

[Daffynition]

19 posts and no mention? Comeon boys & girls ...wazup?

[Daffynition]

Play the official SPAMALOT game, or not

[mefistofelerevised]

I knew that part.
Wonder if she out of the hospital yet

[Daffynition]

[Slings and Arrows]

Fetchez la vache!

[Responsibility2nd]

[Darksheare]

We need one.

[OSHA]

[Lady Jag]

jetez le poulet!

[jimt]

I've aways favored it for deporting illegals...

[goat granny]

Daffy is back in the saddle......:O)

[Daffynition]

[Berlin_Freeper]

Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles

(Michael Jackson)

[JoeProBono]

Deserves replay on bigger scale

[TheOldLady]

We had a cat (Muffin) who climbed the screens like that. He was a sweetie, too, but a heavy guy. We learned to save up a large screen-replacement budget.

[goat granny]

Now that one is funny*********GG who loves cats but cannot have one...

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

GREAT BIG LOL!

[NicknamedBob]

"We need one."

No we don't. You might break a window.

[Darksheare]

I PROMISE we will use it outside only.

[earlJam]

lol

The Holy Grail.

How did I know YOU would beat me to the punch line?

[NicknamedBob]

If you are thinking of using it on our space Habitats, even outside, I would like to point out something to you.

Trebuchets operate with gravity being the power behind the throw. On our Habitats, rotational velocity provides the artificial gravity.

Why would you use a portion of that energy to fling something, when you could simply release the object instead, and use all of it?

For extra oomph, extend a boom or tower out for more velocity, aiming it "downward", of course.

The launch was rather uneventful. After closing the zero-volume valves and disconnecting from them, and releasing from the docking clamps, they were slowly deployed by a sturdy cable.

It belayed them for a calculated distance, and at the correct time for their planned trajectory, it released them. No flame, no fuss …


No gravity.

[Darksheare]

But.. we can make it work.
With rockets!
*Bad idea generated*

[Daffynition]

Next time ...YOU can be first!

[NicknamedBob]

I missed a good chance for a pun there.

... gravity being the “Power behind the thrown.”

[Darksheare]

Uh oh.
NNB isn’t feeling well, he missed a pun.

[NicknamedBob]

Tomorrow is Punday.

Sunday, Monday, Punday ...

[Darksheare]

The stars aren’t aligned!
Ia Ia Punthulhu.

[irishtenor]

Alright... Run away! Run away!

[Professional Engineer]

You;ll put yer eye out.

[Dead Corpse]

Didn’t we already work this out once? Or were we still in Scotland when we did that?