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31 May 2007

The Daramalan Trebuchet

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YouTube brings us Richard Belihomji and the trebuchet he built at Daramalan College

It’s a lot of engineering to fling a basketball, but we like trebuchets.

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VicePope12:30 pm 04 Jun 07

I’m waiting for Nyssa et al to start demanding free trebuchets for government schools.

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Maelinar2:04 pm 01 Jun 07

I still need a zeppelin, a trebuchet and 30
chinamen to play an elaborate prank – I wonder if they’ll let me borrow theirs ?

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Blamemonkey12:53 pm 01 Jun 07

and virgins are a waste of time

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Jazz11:50 am 01 Jun 07

The Females would have to be virgins V8, otherwise it wouldnt work.

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VYBerlinaV8 now_with_added grunt11:35 am 01 Jun 07

Maybe they could use it to fling some hops, malt, females and a big deer into the air, so it can rain beer.

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schmerica_11:06 am 01 Jun 07

Trebuchets are hot. Where is this big hunk of man meat? hahaha

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Cameron10:48 am 01 Jun 07

Good trebuchet – I’m impressed that it worked and kept working.

However, I fail to see the correlation between building a trebuchet and living life to the fullest.

Also – the camera person who was in charge of filming the clouds whilst searching for the flung object – top work.

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jennybel7510:45 am 01 Jun 07

Well, this chick digs trebuchets! 🙂

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Nik_the_Pig10:37 am 01 Jun 07

Well the chicks in the vid seemed to dig the trebuchet. Don’t all chicks dig trebuchets?

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neanderthalsis9:49 am 01 Jun 07

That is great. As El said kudos to the builder and the school for letting him build it. Combining physics and the construction of medieval war machines is a great twist to the curriculum.

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GnT9:28 am 01 Jun 07

Which chicks dig trebuchets?

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jennybel758:39 am 01 Jun 07

This is something the physics class does at Darra on occaision. Here’s another youtube doco about the process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlylT5ePd4 Wish we did that when I was doing physics at highschool!

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ducks8:31 am 01 Jun 07

so did he live life to the fullest or what

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Nik_the_Pig7:45 am 01 Jun 07

I’ve always wanted a trebuchet.

Chicks dig trebuchets 😉

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adeptacheese10:19 pm 31 May 07

I paused my music so I could listen to the sound on the youtube video, I see this was a mistake.

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el9:05 pm 31 May 07

Shaky camerawork makes me dizzy.

Kudos to the builder – I thought it was particularly impressive that it didn’t fall to bits after the first use.

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