Floating Arm Trebuchet - 2016 - 8.5 feet tall
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- This is an 8 foot tall floating arm trebuchet. I have gone off of several sources to draw up my own plans. This was designed to use 120-250 lbs of counterweight, but we have reached nearly 300 lbs.
Floating Arm (or Axle) Trebuchets are built to be more efficient than medieval ones, by way of allowing the weight to drop vertically. While several other factors such as friction, angles, etc are important, I believe we still overcame the traditional Floating Counterweight by a decent amount.
I would love suggestions, but unfortunately I have moved and will not be able to work on the trebuchet anymore.
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What you were looking for for the trigger is what they call a panic snap
This is rad!
Fantastic job. Would it be possible for you to share more of your detailed plans? A small group of my friends are trying to build a mid sized trebuchet for a project. We would really appreciate the help! Again super job on this project!
Thanks! Just created a new folder on OneDrive, it's all I have to give you. 1drv.ms/f/s!AgnmfJxJXh26yndirrWsfEi_XyBf
Basement Engineer Thank you!!!
hi the link to the drawings doesnt seem to work anymore. can you repost it? i really want to try and make this with a group of friends! Thanks in advance from the netherlands!@@basementengineer29
Would you have any tips in how to strengthen it slightly more for better distance wife not it's fine but nice video and trebuchet
THIS IS EPIC
Great job! I have not seen anyone launching stones with the floating arm trebuchet and it looks very powerfull! Do you have more detailed plans of the build, with the thicknes of the planks etc? Me and two friends will do a project in school where we will compare the original medival trebuchet with the floating arm. I appreciate any information you have to offer!
Dan Englund Certainly. All of it (or very nearly) was constructed with 2x4's. The wood gussets were made with 3/4 plywood. Here's the link to my OneDrive folder. If you are really wanting to make something like this, you should be able to piece it together.
Basement Engineer Thanks for responding! But I cannot find any trebuchet plans, only the highvoltage stuff :(
Dan Englund Sorry, clicked on the wrong folder. Here it is 1drv.ms/f/s!AgnmfJxJXh26rSJczbzDljpJTBrf
thanks!
thanks!
If u do it again put an eye bolt on arm and quick release for rope climbing like a pin of grande way more accurate bc they would of ate it like a deaf fall trap but with rope then pulled on dead fall stick releasing counter weight like a trap most accurate
Awesome job man! Do you remember some of the distance ranges for different counterweights?
It's been awhile, but I do remember that past 130 lb of counterweight, the throwing distance leveled off, probably due to the frame moving too much. We got around 300ft throws of 4 lb rocks using this weight. Not the best trebuchet, but we still had fun with it.
Nice! I built a traditional trebuchet (10ft tall) last year had pretty good success with it we had pumpkins between 1.5 and 3lbs we got 420ft out of @90mph but we never got to my designed weight of 300lbs. the only pivot point i could find in the limited amount of time as 1" gas pipe and it bent pretty good on us around 240lbs. SO for this year ive done a lot of reinforcing and filled the pipe with concrete 300lbs should be no issue. Videos on my channel. when i launch the improved trebuchet it will be on my other channel. (the coffee guy vlogs)
rccrazy30 That's pretty neat! I wish I had thought to put my camera on a level tripod and put a scale to know how fast it launched. That's awesome
Basement Engineer I actually used my drone to measure the distance and had a wide enough shot to calculate how long it took from release to landing for the speed
cool