Our Trebuchet Journal
Group members:
- Anthony Myre
- Adam Spannagel
- Chris Truckner
- Andy Dague
- Josh Klein
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Day One
In which the boards are cut...
| Here are our original plans, which we modified a little to fit our needs. |  |
| These are some of the boards we used to build our trebuchet. |  |
| Laying out the pieces. |  |
Day Two
In which The base is assembled...
| Here we are assembling the vertical supports. |  |
| Here we are a little further along in assembly. |  |
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| Attaching the four diagonal supports. |  |
| Finally, the base is completely done. |  |
Day Three
In which we build the arm...
| Laying out the arm boards. |  |
| Here Chris is marking where our hole needs to be drilled. |  |
| Drilling the hole... |  |
| ...still drilling the hole (it took five minutes to drill through these boards). |  |
| Here we are attaching our couterweight (128 pounds) to the end of the arm. |  |
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Day Four
In which we build the sling and the release...
| Here you can see the whole arm, with couterweight and sling attached. |  |
Day Five
In which we test out the final product...
| This is when we attached the arm to the base and swung it around a few times. |  |
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Day Six
In which we are finally done...
| This is after we attached the trebuchet to our trailer. |  |
| And finally, after six days of hard work, here is the trebuchet locked and ready to fire. See it in action here(13MB .mov), here(5MB), and here(6MB). |
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