# Wow, I've just built a small Trebuchet.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 17, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248 "2003-09-17T23:32:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Squirebob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Squirebob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squirebob)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248/1 "2003-09-17T23:32:52Z")

</div>

Inspired by the thread from earlier, Squirebob has launched into the world of siege engines. In an effort to topple the local warlord (my Venezuelan housemate) I have built a Trebuchet. its not the largest the world has ever seen, but it does a job… Plastic farm yard animals have been raining down upon my tyrannical overlord for the past hour…

just thought I’d tell my fellow crusaders

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248/2 "2003-09-17T23:56:55Z")

</div>

Better watch it, or **andygirl** will steal it and lay **Seige**. Or seige. Whatever.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248/3 "2003-09-18T00:18:43Z")

</div>

I got the plans for the cardboard Trebuchet from the earlier thread and am going to make it this weekend.

I have evil plans involving launching marbles out my 3rd floor office window.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248/4 "2003-09-18T02:43:43Z")

</div>

I fully endorse this endeavor.

If we all had siege weapons our lives would be far more interesting.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248/5 "2003-09-18T04:22:58Z")

</div>

I drew up some plans for a trebuchet a year or two ago. The idea is to have it big enough to throw bowling balls, but small enough that I can tote it around in the back of my pickup truck.

Unfortunately, my laziness has so far kept me from getting beyond the R&D phase of the project. But the plans are on my fridge.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-just-built-a-small-trebuchet/202248/6 "2003-09-18T05:06:12Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Rabid\_Squirrel \*  
> **I got the plans for the cardboard Trebuchet from the earlier thread and am going to make it this weekend.**

HEY, was that the plan I posted? 😃