[Loch-Ruadh] Punkin Chunkin
Gerald Lewis
glewis01 at charter.net
Mon Feb 3 05:20:23 PST 2003
Unfortunately for me I fell asleep *sniff* so I did not get to see it. But
I am sure they will show it again you know the Discovery channel. Thanks
for letting us know.
I did get a chuckle though, I had this mental picture of a group of you
standing around a catapult and then the herald coming forward and announcing
something like "After much thought, we consider this to be a catapult."
See. I need that sleep.
Suzanne Dufay
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Harper <bice.pietro at charter.net>
To: <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Punkin Chunkin
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
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