Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles

upi ^ | Oct. 26, 2009

[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.

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I knew that part.
Wonder if she out of the hospital yet

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We need one.

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[Berlin_Freeper]

Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles

(Michael Jackson)

[JoeProBono]

Deserves replay on bigger scale

[TheOldLady]

We had a cat (Muffin) who climbed the screens like that. He was a sweetie, too, but a heavy guy. We learned to save up a large screen-replacement budget.

[goat granny]

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[Daffynition]

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