you should build it to shoot pumpkins and enter the contest....my friend is
building a trebuchet as well...
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-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L""Brian Fitchett"" <fitchett@chem.utah.edu> wrote in message news:b8ugtl$r8c$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > > my friends and i are in the planing stages of building a trebuchet. not for > launching batteris but for hurling various different things, watermelons > might be fun come summer time. guess thats what you get from watching too > much junkyard wars. > > Brian > > ""Josh Battles"" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote in message > news:b8u37k$5kl$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > > > > ""Gary Hedlin"" <ghedlin@theramp.net> wrote in message > > news:b8ti95$fft$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > > > > > > <snip> I believe you'll find it to be headed for the battery warehouse > in > > > the sky <snip> > > > > > > you mean the landfill??? :) > > > > > > Sure, we can disposive of it properly, but dont some of us miss the fun > of > > > throwing it in a few paper grocery bags and seeing if the garbage man > > > notices?? :) > > > > pffft! amateur, we built a catapult to get rid of batteries once... now > > that's FUN. Much more challenging than camouflage in a paper bag trick. > We > > did shoot them into a landfill though, so don't worry about that.... > > > > -- > > - Josh > > Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L > > > > > >
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