How cool is this! Yes this is the massive trebuchet we've made! So, myself, Rick and
Tom, we've been constructing this in the barn over the last few weeks. It is as big as we
can possibly make it. We have left nothing on the table it only just fits out the door.
So you get it out of the door, you put it all together and it is massive! Look at it,
compared to a house, it is huge! Well how did you get it up here Colin? We just towed
it up the road! I mean yeah, it's as wide as the road, but that's what roads are for,
to be taken up! We're going to give it a test fire obviously,
we've not fired it yet, there's probably going to be a little bit of fettling, because how
these things work. There's a pin, there's a release mechanism. Might want a little bit
of fine tuning but we'll get on with that. Now we've made this because Xbox Game Pass
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description. Right let's fire some stuff! Now to fine-tune the beast, we're going to
be chucking a standard projectile. Which is the steel box section, filled full of sand,
and then once we're happy that it's working how we want it to, then we can start firing
all sorts of other weird stuff.
So as a sling we have a tonne bag which we've cut two sides off. Now for a counterweight
we've got this beautiful steel box.
On its own the steel box weighs half a ton but we filled it with gravel and ballast so
it's probably about three tonne now, maybe a little bit more. If we're happy we can always
fill it up or we can take some out. It's a beautiful system, so to load it, we have to
lift it up with the JCB.
To lock it in place, it goes on there, slide the pin through.
We have to tie the JCB to it,
Straight out of the it she worked yeah! Right that went about 100 meters, let's fire it
again and see if it does the same thing or better! It's ripped the tonne bag, 2 problems:
its ripped and it's come dislodged from that I think, I've not checked the footage back,
but i'm pretty sure that's what happened. Right we do have a second option though, there
we are, chain sling! I've taped it shut! We're just going to try smacking the pin down,
so we can get the sling to release a little bit earlier.
Some of the nuts have been coming loose!
Okay so the problem we've got with the chain is it's wrapping around the block, it's hugging
it, it's getting trapped in the gaps, and it's
not releasing it very well and because it's so inconsistent, we think the pen is releasing
the strap at the right point but we don't really know. There are some instances where
it hasn't released it at all and it stayed hugged into it and then come back and actually
smack the machine. So with that in mind we kind of think let's put something bigger in
it like a washing machine and then it can't wrap around it.
No idea if this sling system's gonna work with this, but we can only give it a go can't
we! Look it's unfolded it's like a flat pack. Drums over here!
It's a new day, now i've been thinking I'm putting the chain to one side, because I think
the tonne bags are better. Now we tried lining two, inside each other for extra strength
but the blooming thing got tangled up in it again. so got back down to one and then this
happened!
That worked! Oh look at it! it's proper beached itself in! That, that worked that did. I mean
look we set this wall up, this is about 200, 250 meters away from it and we're just trying
to get it like like perfected before we start shooting at this, but it's reached it from
there! Need to go back and have a look at the footage see what happened see why that
one worked so well and then hopefully do it again. It is it has got potential, this thing
has got power. Right what am i doing i got my wheelbarrow because i gotta i gotta walk
all the way back with that now You think in medieval times they had to uh, walk off with
a wheelbarrow and get their ammunition back ? Right so we checked the footage. Basically
the projectile pops through the tonne bag, out that hole again where the sand comes out
of. Now we haven't got another one, we can't fix it, but whatever it did it did it perfectly
right because it went hookin miles! So the Stamford theory is, we'll try throwing something
that won't fit through the hole Colin! and that's what we're gonna do, so we're gonna
do another washing machine! Yes!
Got a bit of cleaning up to do.
Ah, how am I gonna dry my clothes now? Well the consistency of the Colin Furze trebuchet,
is, uh up to its usual standards! We've actually tore the sling this time. So we actually fired
half of our sling as well.
So i think we need to go back to the workshop and actually work on our sling design,
because clearly that's that's where our problems lie. But we're just kind of thinking before
we go should we just
try chucking some stuff where the sling does go with it that can only be fun i think so
too!
E.T eat your heart out! We have a bicycle!
Now the straps gonna go with it, because we've not got the one on the yellow bit look. It's
just pinned over the bit at the end. So see what happens.
Oh my bicycle! Oh no it bend the wheel! We enjoyed that. What about a patio heater patio
heater. loaded All up right look, ready to keep you warm on a lovely summer's evening!
But Oh no the trebuchet!
Ah do you know what? They just don't make things properly these days do they?!
They really don't, oh all hail the swing of chucky! All right and then people! Clearly
I've got some sling issues, but as we can see the potential is in this thing.
That mega shot it must have gone like two or three hundred meters into the sky. It was
so much better
and different to anything else we've been firing, so if we can just get this sling sorted,
we're on to a winner.
Now I'm thinking I had this massive strap which we didn't use because I thought it was
a bit too heavy,
and obviously you know strap weight is going to affect things too,
but if I can cut bits of that, bolt it together and sort of make like a little bit of a sock
or a cup,
we can throw that block right into our wall. Cuz we've made a wall, because you know Age
of Empires attack castles and walls.
We want to mimic that! So our wall is ready to be attacked and then
once we've done that, we can get it sorted
and then we're going to try and find some bigger stuff. We've got like a car shell.
Can we fire a car shell, if we put more gravel in it, is it gonna chuck that thing? \
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Will it smash it up,
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