From my cold dead hands

[switters]

I now have a flat bed trailer to pull behind my bicycle.

The Australians are coming for my guns.

I'm a tiny person and fear for my safety while in public, but only here in America.

Tour de Fat will be coming soon, well end of summer anyway. Dont know what the TdF is, look it up nerds.

I have plans for a trebuchet that should throw a tennis ball almost a hundred yards with a 30x 36" base and a coffee can full of cement. water balloon experiments soon.

And so we are about to leave on a mission to obtain the necessary bits needed for a bicycle mounted weapon of medieval destruction. Granted, I should be finishing a leeboard this weekend but the kids find that boring, where as hurling objects through the air seems much more gratifying to them.

I'm thinking ash would be suitable for the stresses involved? Do I need a license to mount it on the front of the boat?

[Iceboy]

Pictures please. I'll need one as well.

[leikec]

I now have a flat bed trailer to pull behind my bicycle.

The Australians are coming for my guns.

I'm a tiny person and fear for my safety while in public, but only here in America.

Tour de Fat will be coming soon, well end of summer anyway. Dont know what the TdF is, look it up nerds.

I have plans for a trebuchet that should throw a tennis ball almost a hundred yards with a 30x 36" base and a coffee can full of cement. water balloon experiments soon.

And so we are about to leave on a mission to obtain the necessary bits needed for a bicycle mounted weapon of medieval destruction. Granted, I should be finishing a leeboard this weekend but the kids find that boring, where as hurling objects through the air seems much more gratifying to them.

I'm thinking ash would be suitable for the stresses involved? Do I need a license to mount it on the front of the boat?

No license required, but be careful to only use local ash...because of that little green insect.

Jeff C

[LeeG]

Sounds like wholesome fun, make sure it can handle flaming balls, it's inevitable.

[seanz]

I now have a flat bed trailer to pull behind my bicycle.

The Australians are coming for my guns.

I'm a tiny person and fear for my safety while in public, but only here in America.

Tour de Fat will be coming soon, well end of summer anyway. Dont know what the TdF is, look it up nerds.

I have plans for a trebuchet that should throw a tennis ball almost a hundred yards with a 30x 36" base and a coffee can full of cement. water balloon experiments soon.

And so we are about to leave on a mission to obtain the necessary bits needed for a bicycle mounted weapon of medieval destruction. Granted, I should be finishing a leeboard this weekend but the kids find that boring, where as hurling objects through the air seems much more gratifying to them.

I'm thinking ash would be suitable for the stresses involved? Do I need a license to mount it on the front of the boat?

Please proceed to the I Like Bicycles thread, and post some pictures. Please and thankyou.

I'll try and talk the Australians into letting you keep your guns. They'll probably be your friend if you let them play with your catapult.

[switters]

Sounds like wholesome fun, make sure it can handle flaming balls, it's inevitable.

I know, and it probably wont be the kids who get caught.

Poplar for the frame and a stick of oak for the throwing arm. 3/8 threaded and steel sleeves for the axle and pivot points, jute, nuts washers, everything but the sling and and some rings for the trigger. $44 at home despot. Seems a shame not to get some spar varnish...

[LeeG]

Thx for the heads up, I was at a tdf inSeattle, good fun

[switters]

Going to participate in urban assault again this year, if you get a change they are a blast, but it is crucial you know the city. It's pretty much an alley cat type race with beads instead of cards.

About 10% of the population in town shows up at TdF to ride or watch, it is a matter of, "if you cant beat them, join them. The guy who drives the TdF semi is named Rick, very cool guy who hangs out with the rig at the after party. Start talking boats with him and you could end up with some good schwag.

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seanz, going to cut down the aluminum sides on the trailer tonight and take the rest of the fabric off, so it will look like a stake side. It would have been cool to use the aluminum frame as the trebuchet frame but the oldest needs a wood working project and the throw arm length would have been too short for storming the castle.

[seanz]

Cool.

Have fun storming the castle.

[Paul Pless]

I have plans for a trebuchet that should throw a tennis ball almost a hundred yards with a 30x 36" base and a coffee can full of cement. water balloon experiments soon.

I just happen to have, umm........'access' to a few cats if you wish to further your experiments in Hell.

[switters]

Sure Paul, you just put them right in the sling, I'll pull the trigger.

[switters]

My apologies to all partisans who I may have insulted by this thread.
I should probably apologize to the Australians also, but I'm pretty sure they have a sense of humor.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

I'm thinking a poison dart blow gun would be more effective than a trebuchet.

[switters]

Half way through the week, and I'm looking forward to Saturday morning. Last weekend the rest of the trailer was stripped of it's child carrying heritage and now looks a proper battle trailer, or at last a reasonable flatbed. All of the bits and pieces were cut out and we now have a trebuchet kit. The childrens are supposed to be making a leather sling this week. Saturday we will assemble our new weapon of minimum destruction.

anyway, thought I would post a link to the plans we are building.

http://members.localnet.com/~lorilee35/plans/plans.html

And I will move most of this over to bikes when I get some pictures.