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metalspinner

#75
October 26, 2009, 09:14:16 AM
Raider,
One of our leaders has a family farm in Blount County. It was a beautiful setting.  We were set up in a hay feild along a ridge..  On Thursday when we brough the treb out, the mountain sides were still all green.  But by Saturday morning, the trees were changing and the veiw was a beatiful yellow and orange.

Imerc,
We thought of that, but we had soooo much coin invested in this thing that we didn't want to "splurge" on an electric winch.  Besides, the "click, click , click" of the hand winch served to intimidate our opponents. ;D
I do what the little voices in my wife's head tell me to do.

IMERC

#76
October 26, 2009, 09:29:14 AM
Quote from: metalspinner on October 26, 2009, 09:14:16 AM


Imerc,
We thought of that, but we had soooo much coin invested in this thing that we didn't want to "splurge" on an electric winch.  Besides, the "click, click , click" of the hand winch served to intimidate our opponents. ;D



new gear ratios or shive/pulley/block arangements???
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish.... Here fishy fishy....

Mr Mom

#77
October 26, 2009, 11:51:29 AM
I wounder if the guys with the cannon could get more distance if they used  a packing wad like the muzzle loaders do.

Thanks Alot Mr Mom

IMERC

#78
October 26, 2009, 03:44:12 PM
Quote from: Mr Mom on October 26, 2009, 11:51:29 AM
I wounder if the guys with the cannon could get more distance if they used  a packing wad like the muzzle loaders do.

Thanks Alot Mr Mom

I was thinking more like a sabot....
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish.... Here fishy fishy....

metalspinner

#79
October 28, 2009, 12:06:35 PM
Finally got the camera back from my wife.  Here are a few pics from the days events...

The Champion Pumpkin Chunkers...






The setting.  All that color on the ridge popped up in just two days.






The artillery lineup.  We had three trebuchets, one catapult and one slingshot.






A closer look at a Kid-A-Pult...










After dark, we got the stumpkin lit.  He looked cooler and cooler as the evening wore on...






And of course, we had many cobblers... musteat_1






:) :) :)
I do what the little voices in my wife's head tell me to do.

Fla._Deadheader

#80
October 28, 2009, 02:07:29 PM

Nice photos. Looks like the kids had nearly as much fun as the adults  ::) ;D ;D :D :D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

SwampDonkey

#81
October 28, 2009, 02:56:54 PM
Looks like a great day: weather, fun and good eats. :)
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

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metalspinner

#82
October 28, 2009, 05:03:31 PM
I do what the little voices in my wife's head tell me to do.

WDH

#83
October 28, 2009, 07:48:35 PM
The Kid-A-Pult looks fun! 
Woodmizer LT40HDD35, John Deere 2155, Kubota M5-111, Kubota L2501, Nyle L53 Dehumidification Kiln, and a passion for all things with leafs, twigs, and bark.  hamsleyhardwood.com

metalspinner

#84
June 06, 2021, 03:06:37 PM
All good things must come to an end. 
The treb has been sitting in the corner of the yard for years decaying away. 
I busted it about 5 or 6 years ago at a competition in North Carolina. 

The arm and bucket looked so cool, I thought of a way to get a few more years of life out of it. 



 



 



 



 

I planted a wisteria vine in the bucket in hopes it will use the arm as a trellis. 
I do what the little voices in my wife's head tell me to do.
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