trebuchet

[Fast Death]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/

[Mithrandir]

seen something quite like that before.

btw. any of the 2 people who visit this part of the forum know the program on Disc. Channel "Scrapheap"? They had to build a trebuchet/catapul once...quite amusing http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif.

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[Fast Death]

I think i caught that one.... i looking forward to the j james shop show (name?)

hung out with him and some friends a few years ago while in CA for a bike rally

[Shiro]

Yup I have that episode taped from when it came out a couple of years ago.

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[Yoshitsune]

Is that the British series? We had it on Channel 4 here. In the one I'm thinking of, one side made a trebuchet and the other a 'mangonel' type catapult. As always in these 10 hour challenges the simplest solution won - the mangonel. The trebuchet was an awesome weapon in its time but it was a complicated piece of kit that required precise balancing of the various parts of the construction. In another recent history doc here two teams reconstructed a couple of trebuchets based on those used by Edward at the siege of Stirling castle. One took a almost a week to build and test...