Well there's only one way to find out up close what carnage our trebuchet does.
Is it? Is it? Is it? Oh!!
Hi it's Tod from Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler here and today I'm gonna go bowling,
but not your average kind of bowling because I've got a trebuchet and it just happens to
shoot bowling balls. So welcome to the medieval trebuchet bowling alley with my brave men at arms.
Now we have got a load of cameras on this today so hopefully we'll really capture the carnage,
but the thing is what you do have to remember is trebuchets were really against fortifications so
you would, shoot single blocks, maybe even baskets of rocks, incendiaries,
that sort of thing but never open battlefield like this, that's not what they were about
and if you like the Running Knight t-shirt, they're available in the merch bar below the video
and hopefully we're going to find a way that you'll be able to buy the printouts of these
things as well, but anyway that's for another day. Let's go bowling!
So here we go.
And here it's coming in!
I don't know, what was that? That was a meter from the side, a one meter. So this is where it landed,
this is where it ended up after the roll and we've even got mud splatters on our outlier here,
but the bottom line is it's not easy to move a trebuchet,
so I'm going to move the targets just a little bit because I do want to see something hit. Loose!.
Here it comes again.
So, so, so close. Right let's go have a look because I think you splattered them with mud, so
what I can say for sure is that our brave 10-pin soldiers are definitely getting nervous. Loose.
Is it? Is it? Is it? oh!!!
That okay, so Graham iv, Graham iv, so nearly got taken out there. Is it? Is it? Is it?
Hen's teeth, this trebuchet business is difficult. That's really frustrating because
again the bowling ball landed to the right of our ten pins,
now that means that the delivery point, the point that it's landing
is getting different, it's changing each time and the only thing that could be changing really is
the trebuchet. So I talked about in my last film, bit of jeopardy here, real life jeopardy, about
will it break?, will it survive? Well if the point of impact is changing that worries me and loose!
Oh he's coming in, he's coming in! is he going to?
Oh my goodness, me oh my, goodness me, so just check this out. How lucky was everybody?
So our little camera here lived our wimmus lived,
our men lived, which is not the plan, that is not what I want so we're just gonna have to go again,
but we're losing light and it's raining so, but anyway we have to. Here we go!
Loose!
Coming in again. Ah short!
This is so frustrating, it's untrue. So that is five misses on our ten pin bowling alley and we
just didn't get a strike today but we will be back because I want to see those guys taken out,
I really do, but what we have managed to do is get a lovely wide of the whole thing so we can
plot the trajectory, you can see that coming in. But the problem I've got is things are moving the
impact point is moving more than just a little bit of erraticness, there's something up and
I've got to get to the bottom of it but anyway not today another time, we go bowling again.