Ballista teaser….
Here you go, a small sample from the plans I’ve worked up. Machine measures 1.2 meters wide by 2.1 meters long. (4′ X 6′8″)
Don’t get too excited, I’m not planning of giving it all away for nothing.
In related news the crew positions for the primary engine have been filled. Two armouers, one sailor and what appears to be a document file of some kind will be operating the prototype engine designated “Marivs”.
The Eh Team.
July 10, 2006 at 7:25 am
Hmmmm. No one’s chubby enough to be me.
July 10, 2006 at 9:59 am
Have you considered this in a hunting package?
July 10, 2006 at 10:22 am
You get many mammoth in Chirstchurch?
Must be the ice age you’ve got going on down there.
July 11, 2006 at 1:28 pm
A high school chum of mine built a small one (man high) as a history class project, all was well until the nutty history teacher decided that a demonstration would be fun, while builder was off somewhere
A peice of plywood was hung infront of a fire doors leading from the dining hall down tot he locker rooms.
A yard long bolt skewered 2 steel fire doors, the plywood and still had enough energy 100 yards later to impale itself with authority into the concrete of the basement wall.
The history teacher had to be lead off for some quiet time and a pint, realizing belately that 5 min either way and he have to explain perforated students to parents.
We of course wanted to mount the damn thing on a pickup truck, with a electric winch to draw it aback. Adult legal counsel prevailed. Damn them.
July 11, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Yes school days… wacky fun.
People don’t realise that in terms of power gunpowder was a step backwards. The long bow could fire faster, more accuratly with greater hitting power than flintlock.
You had to start training a bowman about the time he started walking. You can teach 100 idiots the rudementry operation of a flintlock in one afternoon.