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![]() The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery - Nice book that shows you how to build ten different catapult projects, moderate wood working and pvc piping kind of stuff. These books, available at, will help take your trebuchet or catapult building to new heights! Pun intended! Want to build a bigger, better, more powerful or fancier siege engine? There are some great books available to you. How to make a tennis ball trebuchet I keep it simple and use common stuff so you don't have to spend any money. Make a Tennis Ball Trebuchet - (Fast and easy)Ī fast and easy trebuchet project with lots of power. Want to build a bigger trebuchet? Try this project: I have put together a few tips to help you make the arm of your treb the best you can: About the Trebuchet Arm Lets continue on and start building this TrebuchetĪ New Article about the Trebuchet Arm: I have received lots of email from people who have built trebuchets and the most common question they have is about how to make the arm better. It was a kooky contraption I built but a nice little project: see the scale I made to weigh my counterweight If you use three rolls of pennies your weight is about the same as mine. This gives you a good idea of what to shoot for with your counter weight. So to get an idea of how much one of these balls weighs I made up a little scale and weighed the ball with pennies. Seeing as I use a solid metal Chinese Healing Ball it makes quite a difference and not everybody has these. One of the common questions is about my counterweight. I lot of people are building this Trebuchet and I get a lot of email about it. Let's start with the building instructions. ![]() Okay! This is everything you need to make this table top Medieval Siege Weapon. The sheet of wood shown is important for strength and it is about one quarter inch thick but thinner would be ok. You can cut strips of wood if you need to. You can be very flexible with this and use almost anything similar.
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