Trebuchet - medieval siege engine
About 10 years ago I saw a documentation about medieval siege engines in german TV. In this documentation a team of carpenters rebuilt 2 trebuchets in real size.
The original english version of the documentation is on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qakVK4VVQWY
Model at
https://youtu.be/qakVK4VVQWY?t=15m17s
Hits with the rebuilt trebuchets:
https://youtu.be/qakVK4VVQWY?t=40m19s
https://youtu.be/qakVK4VVQWY?t=49m5s
Wiki page about trebuchet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf
Since I saw this, I wanted to built a model of a trebuchet. So last year I built one of some scrap wood. Counterweight is still missing, but it works, tested with stones taped to the arm.
A drawing I made in Libre CAD:
This model is not nice enough to place it in my living room, so I hopefully find time to built a nicer one this year. Constructing was done in freecad 0.15, cutting the pillars at angles I used the workfeature macro. Project tree and constructing is a little bit messy cause it is one of my first freecad work.
As there are no useful plans for trebuchet-models on the internet, I share this here. Maybe it would help someone else.
Trebuchet - medival siege engine
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Trebuchet - medival siege engine
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Re: Trebuchet - medival siege engine
Hello.
Impressive project. Thanks for sharing ...
Keep up the good work.
Roland
Impressive project. Thanks for sharing ...
Well, I fouund this Trebuchet Project Book from Solidworks quite interesting ...Boneshaker wrote:As there are no useful plans for trebuchet-models on the internet ...
Keep up the good work.
Roland
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Re: Trebuchet - medival siege engine
hi
beautiful
paste this litle code in your Pyhon console
mario
beautiful
paste this litle code in your Pyhon console
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for i in range(230,360+120,3):
App.getDocument("Steinschleuder_V04").Cut001.Placement=App.Placement(App.Vector(150,103,40.3495), App.Rotation(0,i,0), App.Vector(0,0,180))
Gui.updateGui() # rafraichi l'ecran
print i
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Re: Trebuchet - medival siege engine
I watched the video again last night, amazing machines.