TREBU BLOODY CHETS

These were the first two on a Google Image Search.

I watched a documentary the other day where this woman who belonged to a club that like to do "adventurous" things volunteered herself to be the object flung by the trebuchet.

That was probably 10 years ago....her message today, as she sat there with her fused spine, waving her cane at the camera was.....don't try this at home.

<sigh> another dreamed dashed. I was gonna fling myself into barton springs pool from the top of robert e. lee.

maybe I'll substitute the cat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

Things like this remind one that the average IQ is 100. For every exceptionally intelligent person.....

thanks guys.. big help!

well most of it.. the bit about the lady in the trebuchet that was just amusing Lol

if a trebuchet is standing still.. with no projectile loaded.... what energy would it involve?? static??? or just static friction??

i'm guessing static

Play the Age of Empires II game. It's a powerful weapon.

I was using that as an instructional warning....

I was thinking maybe you were planning on using your mate Rob as the object thrown.

Just doing my part in keeping your continent/country safe.

Consider two situations: Trebuchet at rest after projectile is thrown, and trebuchet wound and prepared for launch, but projectile not yet loaded.

FYI, a trebuchet's projectile typcally lays on the ground even after it has been loaded.