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Trebuchet design

  • 26-04-2017 8:14pm
    #1
    locky76
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks,
    I've recently rekindled my love of scouts by becoming a leader as my young fella joined as a beaver.
    Anyway I have a very happy memory of my youth whereby we made a trebuchet from spares and sisel rope and spent an afternoon firing rocks down a hill.
    Does anyone know where I would get a design for a trebuchet?
    It seems medieval instruments of war are a constant source of joy for kids! :-)


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  • #2
    BeardySi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭BeardySi


    There's a really oldschool one here:
    http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/pionprojects.pdf ;)

    Sadly this board is dead dead dead. The 1st Facebook Group is a great place for ideas once you learn to filter out all the rubbish that gets posted.

    I believe there's an SI forum but I've no idea how much traffic it gets as (not being an SI scouter) I don't have access.

    Escouts, though mostly UK oriented, is also a great source of ideas etc.


  • #3
    Boardnashea
    Registered Users Posts: 823 ✭✭✭Boardnashea


    The SI forum has been taken down when the website was updated recently. With a little encouragement maybe we could come back and reactivate this forum.
    The difference with the SI forum was that only scouters/members could access it so we could talk a little more freely (Note I said difference - not advantage/disadvantage - because it can go both ways :))


  • #4
    Boardnashea
    Registered Users Posts: 823 ✭✭✭Boardnashea


    And back to the OP.. Galway Scout County Camp made catapults a couple of years ago.

    Design was something like this but used car inner tubes to create the propulsion.

    pion8.gif


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