Mongo the Trebuchet

Posted by Miss Cellania in Gadget, Video Clips on January 21, 2009 at 9:41 am



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Mark Winkler spent six months building a machine to fling watermelons and fireballs, just for kicks. Link


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3 comments to "Mongo the Trebuchet"

  1. michaleme
    January 21st, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Wow... Here in Europe we built machines like this some hundred years ago... ;-)

  2. Scooter
    January 21st, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Did anyone else think it odd it took him 6 months to build that. I mean it's cool and All but it's not that big. Whole homes can be built in less time.

  3. horned_one24
    January 21st, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Did anyone else think it odd it took him 6 months to build that. I mean it’s cool and All but it’s not that big. Whole homes can be built in less time.

    These things take a lot of fine tuning to get them to work just right. Seems about right for the size of it. Of course, that's if he really took his time with the details.


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