February 05, 2009

Have a care!

Murray is crazy. We're all crazy, too, of course, but Murray's craziness is cooler than ours.

Where we're all crazy about anime, Murray's craziness is siege engines. If anyone ever builds a castle in New Zealand, they're gonna be in big trouble once Murray finds out.

He's built quite a few siege engines over the last few years. There were several he was commissioned to build for a local museum, but he doesn't just want to look at them. He wants them to work.

He's built all kinds of different ones, of different sizes, and they all work. But the big gun of medieval siege artillery is the trebuchet. And that's his latest creation.

He named it Sir Isaac. His ammunition is balls of concrete (brilliant, I say; using concrete for that is absolutely brilliant) and Sir Isaac can hit a 6*6 foot target consistently from a range of 300 feet. He's got the pictures to prove it. (The repeatability is really outstanding for an indirect-fire weapon.)

UPDATE: I just noticed that James also linked to this lot. Different web site, though, but it's the same group of crazies.

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