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Originally Posted by karinka13
trebuchets actually work pretty well. me and alicia (looneylin) did something like that for a physics project freshman year. we got tennis balls to go pretty far, but then again we used a pretty good amount of weight.
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Must have been a better release than ours. We had a stuff sack full of rocks, and some of them were pretty big ones.
Ryan, if you do build a trebuchet, I recommend the following: Make everything strong, brace it solidly, and have a Boy Scout on your build team if you can't use bolts or something similar

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