Mongo the Trebuchet

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

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

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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.

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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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