TREBUCHET

Updated 04-May-2020.

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Trebuchet Hire – Crowan 2, 27th March 2011: Crowan 2

Slow motion mini trebuchet: This video shows our mini trebuchet at work in slow motion. It’ll show you how a trebuchet works and where some possibilities lie to improve efficiencies. If…

Trebuchet de l’AMQ a St-Marcellin: Le plus grand trébuchet fonctionnel au Canada. Une création de l’Association Médiévale de Québec (www.medievale.ca)

Syrian opposition use medieval ‘trebuchet’ to launch bombs – Truthloader: Syria’s opposition brigades have used a range of DIY weapons in the past, including slingshots and air-powered molotov cocktail launchers. The latest video a…

World’s Simplest and Newest Trebuchet (Walking Arm Trebuchet): World’s Simplest and Newest Trebuchet (Walking Arm Trebuchet) : This is the world premier for our new trebuchet design. Not only is this trebuchet simple, it is extremely efficient. It has many of the advantages of a floating arm trebuchet, but with fewer parts, less friction, and a unique projectile launch …

Season 8 Filming: Watch a trebuchet test at Titanic Studios: Filming on Game of Thrones season 8 is underway, and lately there’s been a lot of attention paid to an enormous set being constructed in the Titanic Quarte…

The Trebuchet – Medievalists.net: Recent reconstructions and computer simulations reveal the operating principles of the most powerful weapon of its time

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: trebuchet is a catapult that uses a long arm to throw a projectile . it was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder . there are two main the counterweight trebuchet was adopted by the Byzantines in the late 6th century AD . it appeared in both Christian and Muslim lands around the Mediterranean in the 12th century . the term traction some historians today use the more precise traction trebuchet instead . the mangonel is called al-manjanq in Arabic . counterweight trebuchets use gravity; potential energy stored by slowly raising an extremely heavy box attached to the shorter end of the beam (typically on a hinged connection) and releasing it on command . counterweight counterweight trebuchets require significantly more time to reload . in a long siege, time may not be a critical concern . they require significantly fewer men to operate . when the trebuchet is operated, the force causes rotational acceleration of the beam around the axle . the sling starts rotating with the beam, but rotates farther (typically about 360°) and therefore faster a trebuchet projectile can be almost anything, even debris, rotting carcasses, or incendiaries . dense stone, or even metal, specially worked to be round and smooth, gives the first recorded use of traction trebuchets was in ancient china . they were probably used by the mohists as early as 4th century BC . weapons were used as ship mounted weapons by 573 for attacking enemy fortifications . for the trebuchet they use large baulks of wood to make the framework, fixing it on four wheels below . at carriage framework can be pushed and turned around at will . trebuchet was carried westward by the Avars . appeared next in the eastern Mediterranean by the late 6th century AD . evidence from Gaul and Germania suggests there was substantial loss of skills and techniques in artillery further west . the Byzantines adopted the traction trebuchet possibly as early as 587 . traction trebuchet was used by emperor Nikephoros II Phokas around 965 . the catapult threw “enormous blocks into the air with a terrifying noise” no illustrations or descriptions of the device exist from the time when they were supposed to have been used . earliest depiction of a hybrid trebuchet is dated to 1462 . the argument rests on accounts the earliest known description and illustration of a counterweight trebuchet comes from a commentary on the conquests of Saladin . cases for the existence of both european and other Muslim trebusets prior possible references to counterweight trebuchets also appear for the second siege of Tyre in 1124 . by the 1120–30s counterweight was being used in a variety of places by different peoples mongol army brought in two Persian engineers to build counterweight trebuchets . they were first encountered in the battle of fancheng and xiangyang . Chinese and Muslim engineers operated artillery and the design of the Muslim trebuchets came originally from the Muslim countries . the projectiles were several feet in diameter, and when they fell to the earth they made a hole three or four feet deep . counterweight trebuchets had to be constructed close to the site of the siege unlike traction ones . of this, the Hongwu Emperor stated in 1388: “the old type was really more convenient” the two 17th and 18th century Chinese illustrations show counterweight trebuchets on land . the large tank in the middle is the counterweight, while the bulb at the end of the arm was for adjusting between fixed and illustrations are poorly drawn and confusing, leading to mislabeling . counterweight and traction trebuchets were phased out around the mid-15th century . accounts note its use was motivated by the limited supply of the trebuchet’s technical constructions were lost at the beginning of the 16th century . in 1984, the french engineer Renaud Beffeyte made the first modern reconstruction . the largest currently-function trebuchet is 18 metres tall and throws missiles typically 36 kg (80 lbs) up to 300 metres (980 ft) it is built on the design of a similar weapon at Middelalder trebuchet flings standard 8–10-pound pumpkins, specified for WCPC competition . test based on a scene in outlaw king film about Robert the Bruce, King of Scots trebuchets are mounted on wheels that roll on a track parallel to the ground . a counterweight falls directly downward upon release, allowing for greater efficiency . the design debuted in 2016 and won both the