Car Trebuchet Video

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By Bre Pettis
Posted 2007/02/06 @ 10:06 am
Category General

You thought the whole trebuchet thing was over? Nope! Here’s a video from british tv of a car flinging trebuchet. Of course before you fling a car, it appears to be standard procedure to shoot it with a gun! I’m guessing that they took the engine out first to lighten it up. – Link

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9 Responses to Car Trebuchet Video

ceBlaze on February 6th, 2007 at 10:36 am said:

It’s nice to see they don’t let a little thing like fire safety get in the way of a good time.

I think the gun was mostly to make holes in the windshield and floor to run the cable through.

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Shadyman on February 6th, 2007 at 10:49 am said:

This was on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet at one point.

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anKo on February 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am said:

who knew a shotgun was a modification tool? …except for “crazy” william burroughs shooting paintings of course

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MikeCat on February 6th, 2007 at 11:30 am said:

He modified his wife too, I think.

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tms10000 on February 6th, 2007 at 1:26 pm said:

Pre-recorded laugh tracks make it really funny too

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makeisnumberone on February 6th, 2007 at 6:52 pm said:

They build it wrong. It needs either a swinging weight or to be on wheels to prevent excessive force on the axle.

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- Blake Thomas on December 15th, 2012 at 7:08 am said:
  
  A swinging weight would be better, and it looks a bit small, the car is probably about a tonne, so the counterweight should be 100tonne, a vary ruff estimate is that it’s only 32tonne.
  
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jswilson64 on February 6th, 2007 at 6:54 pm said:

These guys were featured in Car & Driver years ago. There was one great pic from the article, of the perfectly-shaped impression of a pig in the soil. Apparently, cars aren’t the only things these guys fling…

As for the video, they need to work on their sling length and/or release angle- that car could’ve gone a lot farther.

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durin on February 7th, 2007 at 9:08 am said:

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that it’s not the thing you fling, it’s the fling itself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=i3xP7cbawlI

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