If you've ever wondered how to build a catapult or trebuchet, or wondered what you'd do with it once you've built one, then this book can help. Filled with anecdotes, plans, photographs, drawings and detailed descriptions of the workings and history of all the major types of catapults, these pages will help you get started in this fascinating hobby. You too will feel the joy of harnessing the power and energy of simple and ancient machines, then use them to hurl all sorts of silly things into the air, just to watch them splat!
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Absolutly disapointing,
By Lester Meckle "Pumpkin Chunker" (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catapult Design, Construction and Competition with the Projectile Throwing Engines of the Ancients (Paperback)
If you are interested in this book because you think it will give you useful plans or instruction or hints on building a trebuchet DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. Everything about the book is executed poorly. I have built 2 competition winning pumpkin trebuchets and thought the book would have some tips I could use to maximize distance, take it up a notch. The publisher certainly makes it seem this is a definitive look at seige engines and how to build them.What you have here is a collection of really bad 1970's pictures of people and their hurling machines and pages upon pages of results of compitions held decades ago, simply listing distances acheived by folks. The book is touted as a primer for the construction of seige engines but I was hard pressed to find any examples of triggering mechanisms one could employ or practical tips on building the counterweight or sling length ratios that work well. As far as the "Historical" look into seige engines, they consist of a a couple of commonly seen woodblock prints that are of no significance. If you are looking to make a trebuchet you will find much much much more information on google looking for pictures, plans, hints,discussion groups,youtube videos of working machines. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK it is a real stinker.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Catapult Design, Construction and Competition with the Projectile Throwing Engines of the Ancients (Paperback)
My son and I are using a design from this book as a basis for a ballista we intend to enter in the Punkin Chunkin contest. The book appears to be designs entered in a contest during the 1970s where the object was to toss a one pound bolt. That is a far cry from a pumpkin. Still it has good ideas although many are more geared to school projects rather than fathers and sons playing with power tools in the garage.
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Don't Waste Your Money on This Book,
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This book looked like it was done on a typewriter and appeared disjointed. Bought it as a Christmas gift for my brother, so was disappointed. My brother didn't like it very much, saying it was a bunch of articles from the author "thrown together and not well written." He also says the book doesn't really cover the basics and fails to build on it very well. Spend your hard earned money on another book on this topic.
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Hurling, the art and science of projectile throwing, has been around for at least 3000 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Catapult Contest, North Central, Fort Wayne, Sir Ralph Payne, Nancy Mack, Park School, Wayne High School, Indiana On May, Mary Hyde, Leonardo da Vinci, Twisted-rope Shoots Class, Counterweight Shoots Class, Stirling Castle New!
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Hurling, the art and science of projectile throwing, has been around for at least 3000 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Catapult Contest, North Central, Fort Wayne, Sir Ralph Payne, Nancy Mack, Park School, Wayne High School, Indiana On May, Mary Hyde, Leonardo da Vinci, Twisted-rope Shoots Class, Counterweight Shoots Class, Stirling Castle New!
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