KR1570F
301092
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You never know when you'll need to know how to make a small easily concealable trebuchet
you know, for science!
Feb 23, 2025 1:04 PM
KR1570F
301092
983
9
You never know when you'll need to know how to make a small easily concealable trebuchet
you know, for science!
Emberskyes
I'm thinking 9 ...
AEM5700
HeySweden
commentsivehadafew
KR1570F
cousteau
That's at most a onebuchet
miakkamisfit
Class, next week, guillotines
Mehlbox
Don’t build a trebuchet for social self defense.
Get two friends together, wrap one or more long Thera tape loops around and between them - and you got yourself a giant slingshot. Shoots light projectiles like cans really far, and can be dismantled, hidden or disposed of in seconds.
skyfishgur
man, you do NOT want to hesitate after you release that puppy... ouch
maday1br
90 kg is a lot of Molotov cocktails.
76hdtwdjhs365
That’s neither 300m or 90kg but sufficient for a Molotov
KR1570F
yes, as the title implies it cannot move 90kg and can't get it to go 300m
UnitConversionBot
300 meters ≈ 980 feet
UnitConversionBot
90 kg ≈ 200 pounds or 14 stone
nevercompromisenoteven
Is that about a dishwasher?
Doommaker
It's about what the average adult man weighs.
Vebrandsson
2.6 standard American dishwashers. Do they not teach this conversion in schools anymore? /s
dogsandcatsandhorses
I reckon I could throw it further. Just saying
Wiker123
If you don't step out of the way fast enough I bet it can launch your testicle up into your throat.
Urgalicity
Imagine if that thing caught you in the nards...
thricebakedxyz
Trebuchet-mini
Blunderwriter
I loved high school science fair. My son and his friend built a potato gun one year that used propane and a firing chamber and basically shredded the potato. Shot something more solid like a canon. Next fair they built a compressed air dart/arrow shooter they had to tow in behind a truck. Their arrows went the distance. Shot a golf ball out of it and pretty sure it hit the reserve 5 miles away lol. Basically farm kid towable artillery from farm scrap. No one else would’ve been allowed to do it.
OGshogun
Now imagine 10 of these sized up a little more and aimed at riot police. The ammo choices are endless.
itdoesntmatternoneofthismatters
Soup. Soup for my family.
dogsandcatsandhorses
Easily concealable? Not exactly pocket-sized is it.
LayingTheCableGuy
compare it to a full sized trebuchet which can have a throwing arm that's 50 feet long
KR1570F
https://imgur.com/tFlsWEG
grumpyhat
I think it's not easily recognised, and might fit in a car trunk when disassembled - at which point it just looks like random junk.
phuzz00
Disassemble it and use the sticks to hold up protest signs.
ihavethelowground
Perfect siege weapon for protests
PerkyPervertedPet
If you are willing to kill someone ...
TheN8
Flamethrowers are *technically" siege weapons. Just sayin'
thetruthisinmybutthole
yesssss
KR1570F
I may or may not have had something like that in mind
SinStar87
what could it be used in a protest for? most situations I can think of, a gun would be much more effective.
skwint
A bucket full of day glow pink paint all over those nice police uniforms
GaiusWydra
Whatever you do, DON’T add fine grit sand or aluminum oxide to that paint. If they have to wipe off their riot shield and helmets, it can scratch them up…
Anarchduke
You can't launch thousands of glass vials filled with nerve gas from a gun.
LayingTheCableGuy
that's a bit extreme but I love your ambition. I think grocery bag full of poop is more likely. maybe plastic cups full of tobacco spit
mikea77
Long range molotov cocktails will make your target focus resources on dealing with the results rather than advancing/attacking. Can also break up a defensive line in a street. Easily and cheaply built, can be abandoned and not easily traced. Can be launched from behind forward lines obscuring source from the opponents on the ground.
SinStar87
Sounds very organized, would be best in my mind to use numbers to split off and cause mayhem in other areas for that then. But I'm not experienced in protesting, just online videos and they never seem to be about taking on the police, just holding out against tear gas and such attacks not sure of the overall goals of them.
Baron29
For starters, guns are line of sight only, trebuchet can fire over your own forces
Lynkfox
Guns are going to (unfortunately) be necessary at some point very soon unless things drastically change (doubt)... But even then, just having a pitched armed battle in the street may be the right strategic move... And may not be. When fighting a superiorly armored and armed force (as the police and any of the armed forces who end up supporting the tyrant will be) you'll need to use whatever you can. Molotove cocktails launched by trebuchet from way behind the fronlines are a great support method
SinStar87
Ah, but is so organized, be more effective to split off groups to cause mayhem.
KommanderKayriel
They're necessary NOW. We can stop that bleak future with taking a few losses and eradicating the enemy from top to bottom if we all move out now, armed and willing. If we wait for them to consolidate their power even violence won't save us.
Lynkfox
And are you willing to be that loss? You willing to die for it?
I don't disagree with you but most of this country isn't at the point *yet*. We're rapidly getting there and I don't doubt that it's a very likely very near future.
But most people still aren't willing to die for that cause, not yet. And even in the future, most people still won't be willing to, even when it's so bad a large portion of the population has nothing left to loose.
KommanderKayriel
Absolutely. If my life could prevent the Fourth Reich, if I could take every Nazi with me? If I could save my friends and family from what's coming? By the time you read this I'd already be cooling in a pool of my own blood. The hesitation would be so short no one could say I hesitated at all. I'd lead the revolution if I could, if I knew you bastards would actually be following behind me. I hate Nazis more than I love myself. I love the innocent and vulnerable more than I hate Nazis.
Warlizardfromtheforum
launching a container of caltrops into the parking lot where the cop cars are parked around midnight. launching smoke into the line of police so they can't form up and see where to shoot. putting a payload of any kind against a building from a safe enough distance they can't ID you.
myotheralt
"putting a payload of any kind against a building"
Go to your local dog park and collect the donations. 💩
Warlizardfromtheforum
although a lacrosse stick could work just as well in some situations and be more portable.
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
I've never held one. How tough are they? Maybe a Jai alai stick would also work.
AVaguelyFamiliarUsername
My reddit account got permanently banned after I made two post in a day. One criticising Israel for murdering children. And one saying what an interesting read the cia handbook "simple sabotage" is.
Zuegma197777
Been quintessential quintuplet banned... Easier to use temp emails.
SerialChickenLover
There are subreddits that are run by Nazis in hiding.
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
Size it so it fits a Can of Soup as ammunition, and call it a Trebuchef.
Hotjoe1991
But that can of soup is for my family 😏
The701
"Are you going to fling that soup at the police?"
"No. My family just lives a few blocks away. 😉"
"... *sigh* Ok."
FloodingWaters
Trebuchefboyardee
MisterLemons
Trebuchefboyardeez non-perishable food goods flying at the institutions of oppression? Hell yeah.
Cn1561
Well that's one way to feed the pigs.
JustATemp123
The Uprising: sponsored by Heinz vegetable soup
itdoesntmatternoneofthismatters
Cream of MushZOOM.
alwaysgoodstuffhere
Some Campbells Balls
bitemark
Bricks would be too heavy
stoots24
Did you guys ever play Crossbows & Catapults as a kid?
mmmerf1
Yes I did.
Skawomplious
Hell yes I did. I would nerd out for hours building the perfect castle.
stoots24
I had the Cyclops and Minotaur combo - I might have had the green dragon....
OnslaughtSupreme
I was too busy playing with your mom
stoots24
My mom doesn't know how to play Crossb....HEY WAIT A MINUTE!!!!
Kreia
The sling doesn't seem to release correctly
peterbozeman
That's what she said.
KR1570F
the first one does seem to go up and then down without going over much but the second one does get some distance. I don't know enough to know what the problem would be. I'm not a terubechologist
Vashdakari
Trebuchet 101 https://youtu.be/jTBDc19eW2o?si=_sSfmI3GmMHPv4DZ
StarscreamAndHutch
I like what you did there at the end.
StarscreamAndHutch
And its ok. Youre trying your best.
QuamvisSintSubAqua
I was fighting my inner demons not to answer your wonderful thread, and I lost:
Could you hold this ' and that '. Just in case you want to use them?
StarscreamAndHutch
Sure. You’’re the best!
ItsMeFromTheFuture
I’m Doctor ItsMeFromtheFuture PhD in trebucheology. The issue is that the slingy thing is not releasing early enough and also late enough provide maximum yeeting of the chunk. By tweaking the angle of the dangle the maximum heat to the yeet can be obtained.
chingadamadrex
I hate that this makes sense…
ChazzK
I hate that what you said was actually entirely accurate but phrased EXACTLY wrongly.
Lynkfox
Looks like (to me, not a mechanical engineer) the first ones sling was too small "tall" more like a gift bag than a baby sling.
TheIronPenguin
This is cool and all, but they both missed the guy with the sign.
oldguyexlurker
90kg in something THAT small. What's that ball made of, neutron star material?
Doommaker
That's a shot put. Even if it were the maximum size and made entirely of osmium, it would still only weigh just under 26kg. Yeah, that thing doesn't weigh 90kg, that's for certain.
cousteau
The point is that this pseudo-trebuchet will never be able to toss a 90 kg weight at a distance of 300 meters, like a real trebuchet would.
skwint
A tennis ball sized lump of neutron star material would weigh about 10^13 kg, or 10 trillion tonnes, but not for very long. In the absence of the rest of the neutron star the explosion would be ... impressive ... so your trebuchet really wouldn't need to throw it very far to be a highly effective seige weapon.
oldguyexlurker
I love you, man.
skwint
10 billion tonnes. I did two conversions at the same time and screwed up.
B166ERMaximus
90kg my ass.
Trelis
You need to go on a diet, like right now.
Ijustsigneduptoupvotethis
Your ass 90kg? Hey buddy, mind sitting in this sling for me? I just wanna test somthing real quick.
chefsoda
Yeah. 900g, I'd believe
Doommaker
That's a shot put. Even if it were the maximum size and made entirely of osmium, it would still only weigh just under 26kg. Yeah, that thing doesn't weigh 90kg, that's for certain. But 900g is less than 1kg, it would have to be made out of plastic to weigh so little.
nobodyspecial995
Americans still can't handle the metric system
IdoWalk
No, but it must be something close to a black hole to be 90kg and be that small!
KR1570F
It's a meme about trebuchets and the smaller version cannot do that. Those are neither 90kg nor being thrown 300m. Google "can throw 90kg 300m"
nobodyspecial995
Lol, nope. You're way off. Even just neutronium would be trillions of kilograms at only a few cm across.
justplainvanilla
RuBisCO1
But what about a ballista?
jmacg
Thanks for the reminder, I need to download a book she wrote that I pre purchased.
PlusTechSqueezeBox
Bombard cannons also work pretty well. Or hussars.
savemebabyjebus
Wololololo
FrozenSteel
At this point you could just go full Paladin.
KR1570F
I found this in the trebuchet tag https://imgur.com/tFlsWEG
lpooptoomuch
California compliance is crazy