Heroic Dreams - All Things Medieval

I have a section of my website on how to make a trebuchet. It’s a pretty popular tutorial and it gets a lot of traffic. It is a complete tutorial with lots of pictures that shows how to make a small table top trebuchet called “The Little Dragon”.  If you ever wanted to make a small siege engine I have everything you could possible need including ideas, designs, plans, videos and more, and its all totally free.

Anyhoo - Yesterday, just by serendipity, I got emails from two different people who followed my design and made their own trebuchets,  with some nice improvements. They sent me pictures, information, and videos and I have posted all of this to the website.

Here is a quick overview of their projects:

Gabe’s Trebuchet - Gabe created what I call the Ferrari of Table top Trebuchets. he went all out and painted his with flames along the side and well you can see from the picture that its pretty nice. He used a bicycle wheel hub as the pivot and I have more about this on my site. He also made some mods that give the swing arm and string more room.

Adil’s Trebuchet - Adil created two videos about his treb and I have them on the site. His treb is unique in that he took my design for a ten inch machine and he cut it in half to a five inch machine. He also did away with the string and pouch which is a nice solution because the string and pouch can be a trouble spot. This makes it sort of like an onager. It is kind of a hybrid and I call it the Trebupult.

If you every wanted to make your own mini siege engine or if you just want to take a look at the projects I have everything right here: How to Make a Trebuchet

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