To: carriage_hill
I don't believe that example could toss a 500 pound projectile 3.5 miles. Here's a 65 page document on
Trebuchet Mechanics that provides the math necessary to design a device to meet the requirements. Have fun!
132 posted on
10/05/2013 4:05:09 PM PDT by
kitchen
(Make plans and prepare. You'll never have trouble if you're ready for it. - TR)
To: kitchen
If it’s one of those water-filled JBs, we’ll just use a hand drill, drain it and chuck it into the field. If we’d hurl something toward the WH, we’d be deluged with PO’d SWAT teams, and I don’t relish winding-up being heavily-ventilated like the CT woman was last week. Heh.
137 posted on
10/05/2013 5:13:54 PM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: kitchen
Great treatise; my eyeballs fell out. I’m saving it for a cold, snowy day, for reading in front of the fireplace.
141 posted on
10/05/2013 7:03:42 PM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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