Whey up internet. Now to celebrate xBox Game Pass for PC they've sponsored me Colin Furze,
to build a modern day trebuchet inspired by the Age of Empires franchise, to celebrate
the release of Age of Empires definitive collection. Now the trebuchet is one of the most iconic
siege weapons in the Age of Empires franchise and because Age of Empire's definitive collection
has been remastered I'm gonna build my very own remastered trebuchet! Building it for
modern materials and chucking all sorts of things. But of course trebuchets are big,
like massive, and this workshop is not so big! So I think this is a job for the barn.
So if you want to play the entire collection of remasters available in the Age of Empire
franchise join xBox Game Pass for PC for one dollar, click the link in the description
to find out more, Right off to the barn!
Here we are in the barn, now this is probably going to be the tallest or the biggest structure
we've ever built. Basically our limit is the doorway. We can't go any higher than that,
or we won't be able to get it out. We've got massive axles, we've got huge bits of steel,
we can't pick any of this up by hand, it is all massive!
oh it's a big old stuff this!
They're in. These are the biggest bits of metal I've ever ordered, 13 meters long ,it's
250 mm by 150 mm, with an 8 mm thick wall. I don't think we're gonna be picking any of
that by hand are we! Just cutting these lengths up and we're actually going to make it bigger
than I was going to make it, because we were going to chop one of these in half and then
we drew the line in the middle and we both looked at each other and thought 'that ain't
big enough'! So we're going to make it a bit bigger which means we've got to order some
more steel which is frightening because it's about £750 a length !
Good job this is a sponsored video! Cuz there's no way would this be happening!
Even the short bit weighs a ton!
You ain't going to believe this right, 10 point long beam, weighs about 1.2 tonne, Would
you believe that you can shove it down the end, put that down the end, and pick it up,
without bending it. I mean look at that! What's that inch and a half 40 mm thick, check this
out... this is just, I can't believe it does this.
Look, look at that! I mean he's bending it, but can you even believe it does that.
Look at it that, how much leverage there is on that pallet time. That just does not make
sense to me. Oh this thing is huge!
£800 they are, £800! And were chopping them in half!
Wheels are here!
How awesome are these? They're massive!
Oh long good now isn't it? Nice choice of wheel Furze! Right it's looking massive, it's
looking awesome, we've got a few more things to do on the chassis but we're waiting for
the steel to arrive. So the next bit is the big pointy bit, with the spinning axle bit
on for the chucky bit!
Okay got two massive hunking great steel beams. We're going to pitch them in at the top. Bit
stronger, nice idea, and then for the axle I've got these eight stud stub axles they're
going to kind of be fixed together with the arm on it but of course they need something
to bolt onto. So I've got to go and plasma cut some big dropouts or whatever you want
to call them for them to go onto. And that's at home Colin!
Now it's going to get some braces and whatnot but we're going to get it mounted upon the
old trailer to see if it fits.
It's Jurassic Park! i think we've made it too big!
Well we've made it as big as we can! Right let's finish the chassis off! Right that's
the chassis side. Got our big 45 degree supports up, leaving out a little dabble on the brakes
and put a bit of primer on. Next up strengthen the bit at the top! I'll show you.
Right happy with this now we're just going to kind of bend a big bit of plate that goes
around there. Kind of weld it up on the top and make this bit like its own little bit
of box section, and we'll fill this little hole in here and all! Other than that i think
it's going very well!
Tricky business this filmmaking malarkey you know. Right that's that all sorted. All nice
and painted up! All nice and strong! Next thing, big old swingy bit!
It's all big stuff you know, it's all big stuff! Right got me a big beam for my swingy
thing, now I've kind of made this little template thing, which we've had strapped up on the
axles up there and pilot drilled., So this is hopefully in the perfect position, so we're
just going to weld this on at right angles, put a bit more strengthening in. take it up
there, bolt it on, and I'd say thats a trebuchet!
Oh I don't like this, I don't like that! It hasn't gone through the ceiling! It hasn't
gone through the truck!
Although it doesn't look like it's in the middle?! Yes still fits in the barn... just!
Now then, we've added a couple of 45 degrees to the other side, was hoping we could leave
this off, but we lifted it up the tele handler, and you can see the chassis wobbling a little
bit in the middle,
and I thought once we get the weight on which is the next job, and that thing is swinging
around, we don't want it snapping all our wonderful
hard work! Or all will be destroyed. Right that is the next job, is to somehow cobble
up like a huge weight thing, which I think we're going to fill up with
ballast or sand or something that could come swinging down, and then go shooting through
Tom's barn roof!
Excellent! Get on with it! Ok we have a massive weight, now we've weighed
it on its own and it's 560 kg with nothing in it. We're going to fill it with ballast.
Now we've put the JCB connector things on the side. We've got some bearing plates which
are up there. We've measured them, we've got them, all ready so hopefully we're just going
to put them up, jimmy it around, bolted on. it'll swing there nicely,
and then it's about done, there's a couple of hooky bits, but that doesn't matter, do
them after! Right let's get it up there!
He's not done a bad job with that look, look at that!
That's nearly spot on! Yeah! Oh Tom Lamb, he might be a bit wild, but he can drive a
JCB!
Right it's all together. We've got a latch system to make and put the strap and the sling
on. You go make yourself a cup of tea, we'll just sit back and look at it!
Okay it is a beast, but is it going to work? Is it going to be launching stuff across the
skies of Lincolnshire? Or is it just going to smash itself to pieces! Now find out in
the next video, but do not forget the sponsor. This has been a super expensive project! Xbox
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