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We were going to build a rail but...

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snowdiver
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We found a bunch of old 4 by 4s behind my friends garage and having just watched lord of the rings the night before we decided to build a catapult. it took us the better part of a day to build (we made our own plans).

When we were tightening the rope that throws the arms it took 3 people to pull on the tightening thing we made (a long metal pipe with a clamp on the end). All said and done we were shooting rocks about the size of your two fists together 125-150 feet and rocks the size of one fist well over 175 and a few broke 200.

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Aug 15 2006 12:37PM
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GhostfaceKillah
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how well does it work?
Aug 15 2006 12:39PM
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skijunkiedtm
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cool
Aug 15 2006 12:40PM
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timmi
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thats sick man i would take a catapoult over a rail!
Aug 15 2006 12:40PM
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snowdiver
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did this work?
Aug 15 2006 12:42PM
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MitchPee
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Now just take it to the local trailer park and work on your aim!
Aug 15 2006 12:43PM
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wdbo.
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that would be so epic
Aug 15 2006 12:46PM
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foodisfun
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in my one class this year in tenth grade we built a trebuchet which is a different form of a catapult.  we first built mini one's with a like 1 pound counterweight, and threw little nuts and bolts into a cardboard castle.  after that we worked in groups of three and built a larger one with 10 pounds of counterweight and threw a golfball.  the golfballs went about 100 of more feet.  then after that the whole class worked on one that was about 8 feet high and the throwing arm was like 15 feet long.  we used over 400 pounds of counterweight for that and threw various fruits such as watermelon, canteloupe, squash and other random things.  if i can find a picture from my friend or something i'll post it. it was the most fun i've had in school
Aug 15 2006 12:49PM
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soycapitan2
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thats pretty sick dude
Aug 15 2006 12:50PM
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Holte
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Nah. Go to a renaissance festival!!
Aug 15 2006 1:00PM
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Redstar
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I have a small catapault, that I built a LONG time ago. IT was meant for shooting flour bombs. I havent touched it in a long time, but I remember the rope that was used to keep the tension, pinched the 2x4 so hard that the 4" part was like, 1 1/2" in one part.
Aug 15 2006 1:09PM
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-benedetto
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thats so random
Aug 15 2006 1:09PM
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jp_draves
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thats amazing, that you guys just got a spontanious idea and just went with it....as the person said thats so frekin random to do
Aug 15 2006 1:11PM
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WONTON
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im calling PETA u whores
Aug 15 2006 4:02PM
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Jake...
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hahah thats sick
Aug 15 2006 5:12PM
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1440ski
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That is awesome did it just take the day to build?
Aug 15 2006 5:25PM
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KillerMonkey
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I built a small catipult once for physics class. It was pretty sweet and we had to launch eggs into a frying pan from like 20ft away.
Aug 15 2006 5:39PM
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snowdiver
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there were 4 of us but my friends dad whos a carpenter helped us a tad
Aug 15 2006 5:50PM
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