Replica catapult at Château des Baux, France (wikipedia)

Trebuchet at Chateau des Baux, France (wikipedia)

300 pound projectiles - now that is throwing rocks at things.... and The Trebuchet was much more accurate than Medieval Catapults so much better chance of hitting stuff too!

now that is what I am talking about 300 lbs projectiles you could do some damage with that!

This may sound weird but me and Mrs Robie seriously love trebuchets. We think they are fascinating.

I've never built a trebuchet  and we will leave the rest of my adventures to the imagination.

one of my friends built a mini one for a physics class, it was pretty cool but reminded of a silly sling shot.

The mechanics behind the trebuchet are really quite sophisticated..... much more involved than a simple catapult or a silly sling shot... I'm with the makers of flea leashes and collars on this one....

In my mind, trebuchet fit into the category of Fascinating not Silly...... a similar comparison could be made between cannons and mortars.

I knew I should have bought the book on how to build one when I had the chance .... sigh... missed opportunity.

I love these things.... and I'd dearly like to do the cartoon thing and sit in one and get launched

Thank you Bric. They're very complex and not easy to build by all accounts.

Not that I don't believe it possible, but I don't imagine you could easily build a mini one that will work. So if Kaz22 had a school friend who pulled it off then I'd say that is to be admired. IMHO.

It is very complex engineering and says a lot about the mind set of the Medieval era that they would get things like this and fortifications so very precise, yet basic plumbing was so beyond them, which Rome had perfected hundreds of years before. That in itself is fascinating.