Oh
Well I think it's fair to say that didn't go entirely to plan.
Hi it's Tod from Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler here and I'm back
at night with our trebuchet. So because it's night there's only one thing we can be doing and that's
incendiary charges. Now I really do want to do this in the medieval style and the medieval way,
medieval ingredients, so we can really get to see what it is, but at the moment that's not what
today is going to be. So this is going to be the first one. There will be in a month, two months
a second one with proper recipes, but here today we have a mixture of an oxidizer and sugar.
Fuse coming out of it; that's going to burn really nicely. It's going to be the core of it,
but then around that I'm going to wrap a mixture of cloth, sawdust and then an accelerant,
a liquid fuel, so what's going to happen then is our two house bricks with its bundle of loveliness
are going to get lit and they're going to hurl over that direction where we've got
our knight targets all set out. So our tenpin bowling targets are still out there which I've
failed to hit completely last time with the bowling balls, so we're going to try and see if we
can deliver a nice burning pair of house bricks to one of them. Should we go light something?
Ah just in front of our chaps. Lovely stuff. That's our first one absolutely
brilliant you see it burning out there in the distance, just a little bit short of our guys.
That is the story of this machine; anyway we're gonna load up, we're gonna go again.
Oh,
um, we got the broom, well I think it's fair to say that didn't go
entirely to plan. I don't really know what happened, but I think the wire connecting
the weight probably just gave way because the weight went backwards. Uh, I'll show you that
in a minute and currently my trebuchet is on fire, so excuse me while I disappear.
So the first thing before anybody worries, this is 150 millimeter square green oak on a wet day.
I'm just not worried about it catching fire, really not, it's a little bit inconvenient, so
I don't really know what happened at the moment, but the shot actually went backwards which is....
Basically what it means is that it slipped off the hook too early why it did that I don't know.
Maybe what happened you know, I'll post more to it and find out, in the meantime I'm just going
to wait for this to burn its way out, and then we'll go again for our last shot. I really wish
this would go out.... So I looked at the last one and part way through the swing the wire had broken
and that's why I ended up shooting backwards so we've now got the last one of the night,
I made sure the links are strong and hopefully this one's going to go forward, so here we go.
So that's it for today folks, hopefully you got blazing trails through the sky you got,
well drama as I have to set my trebuchet on fire but we failed to get our knights again, I just
guess I have to keep on coming back until we do, so we'll see you again another time. Thanks folks.