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Originally posted by bobw
I saw a special on one of the Learing Channels (or Discovery Channel) a few years ago... great show. Apparantly, it is very very difficult.
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Yep! I saw that too. Super cool stuff!
The thing that blew me away the most was... It turns out that it dramatically increases a trebuchet's power to have it on wheels. Affixing it to the ground has it waste some energy rocking and pushing against its moorings, whereas having it on wheels (on a track, hopefully) preserves that energy and puts it into arm rotation speed.