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Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles
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| Oct. 26, 2009
Posted on 10/26/2009 4:19:17 AM PDT by JoeProBono
HUGO, Minn.- Four Minnesota friends fashioned a medieval catapult to fling a variety of objects -- such as wheelchairs and obsolete appliances -- into the sky, they said.
The men, all in their 30s, built a trebuchet -- a catapult originally designed in the Middle Ages to hurl objects at castle walls -- the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press reported Sunday.
The trebuchet was built by Kurt Modert, of Hugo; Roger Bacon, of White Bear Lake; Ryan Krueger, of Maple Grove; and David Proehl, of New Hope -- all municipalities in Minnesota -- the newspaper said.
They're catapulting items like defective bowling balls for now but they plan eventually to launch a clothes dryer, the newspaper said.
The friends began construction in spring 2008. The trebuchet is made of lumber, landscape timbers, aluminum plates and old garage door panels.
"It's stuff you can get at any Menard's. Kurt doesn't have much of a life, so he was working on the trebuchet all the time, said Bacon.
The full-scale catapult is constructed and permanently mounted on Modert's mother's 12-acre residential property , just a few yards from her house.
"It's too big to move," Modert said.
The friends are not certain how the project, which cost them $2,500, will affect the Modert's mother's property value.
"The tax assessor did come out earlier this year, and we're waiting to see what he says," Bacon said.
TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: catapult; hobbies; jpb; minnesota; napl; trebuchet
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To: Slings and Arrows
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10/26/2009 4:21:59 AM PDT
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KoRn
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To: JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 4:34:12 AM PDT
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P8riot
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To: JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 4:36:08 AM PDT
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DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: P8riot
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10/26/2009 4:40:25 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: DuncanWaring
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10/26/2009 4:42:12 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono; Squantos; goat granny
Thank you! Thank you!
I was beginning to worry if I would ever be able to use this fantastic gif.............
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10/26/2009 4:44:35 AM PDT
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Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 4:45:33 AM PDT
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RichInOC
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To: Daffynition
BAHAHAHA!!
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10/26/2009 4:52:13 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: RichInOC
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10/26/2009 4:54:00 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Four Minnesota friends fashioned a medieval catapult to fling a variety of objects -- such as wheelchairs and obsolete appliances
Not only is Minnesota cold and dreary with nothing to do in the winter, but it can get pretty lonely too. Good thing those four guys have a hobby......
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10/26/2009 4:56:58 AM PDT
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Hot Tabasco
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To: JoeProBono
Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles
Personally I always prefered throwing the boiling oil from the top of the castle wall after the french fries were done.......
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10/26/2009 5:00:12 AM PDT
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Hot Tabasco
(Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
To: Daffynition
that guy knows how to show his girlfiend a good time
To: JoeProBono
Will it work for 2500 page long Health Reform Bils? Members of Congress and ACORN?
To: JoeProBono
Hmmmmmm, I am hardly a lib, but to me hurling a wheel chair is pretty dis-tasteful. Somewhere in the world there are disabled people who could use them. A wrecked dish washer I don’t care about.
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10/26/2009 5:15:48 AM PDT
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Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Lockbar
Reuse and recycle. That's the spirit.
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10/26/2009 5:23:22 AM PDT
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Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: Lockbar
"...A wrecked dish washer I don’t care about..."But somewhere is a man with dirty clothes. Oh, the humanity!
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10/26/2009 5:24:03 AM PDT
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I Buried My Guns
(As always, I apologize if I've offended.)
To: mefistofelerevised
"that guy knows how to show his girlfiend [sic] exgirlfriend a good time"
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10/26/2009 5:33:57 AM PDT
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Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: JoeProBono
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10/26/2009 5:44:44 AM PDT
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Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: JoeProBono
19 posts and no mention? Comeon boys & girls ...wazup?
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10/26/2009 5:53:57 AM PDT
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Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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