[Loch-Ruadh] Punkin Chunkin

[Chris Harper]

At 09:32 PM 2/2/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>This might be interesting!  Were you guys considering the actual making of a
>catapult?  Or were you just considering a catapult?
>
>Suzanne Dufay

We decided to build a trebuchet instead and even had a lot of the materials
gathered up but we ran out of time and found it would be bugger to haul  to
war and also would cost a bit more than we were planning.  But some of the
guys did a lot of research on them and Bjorn really out did himself with
the plans and procurements.  He was becoming a real expert on them and
their construction.  Ours was going to be the kind that had a great big
weight  (800lbs) that dropped.  It was a lot of fun to think about. When I
watched the program tonight I saw there were 4 or 5 that were similar to
what we had in mind.  The air cannons were impressive, I thought.  Anyway
it was something different.

Bicé