Flywheel Trebuchet

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[MarkRober]

Dude. Well done on so many levels. Not sure how I’ve never seen your channel till now but i’m glad the algorithm made the suggestion.

[chungdha]

Somewhere in the distance someone is getting constantly bombarded by tennis balls

[jaridkeen]

I feel bad for the farmer that kept getting bombarded for several hours under Medieval Siege

[KoalaTeaGuy]

The flywheel coming to a near deadstop left me speechless. such a good representation of the conservation of energy

[ezradelsman]

Alternate title: "Local man launches tennis balls into next village."

[orchunter]

Imagine, you’re making yourself a morning cup of coffee, looking out the kitchen window hoping to see birds and deer, but instead you see your neighbor building a trebuchet. Thinking to yourself, I wonder if this house can withstand a siege? Also contemplating and calculating on when to return and how long to have borrowed a weed trimmer.

[wroughtiron]

Battle of Neighbor Field. Result: tactical Stanton victory; Neighbor's sheep startled and routed from the battlefield. Casualties: 1 pulley

[triplem]

"My old trebuchet hasn't aged very well...". As a conversation-opener, that takes some beating.

[BPSspace]

Your videos are consistently excellent, Tom - that high speed camera was an awesome investment!

[Cheeky_Goose]

I think this is one of your best videos. It's just really interesting to see how flywheels can store energy like this.

[SamBrickell]

"That is gonna kill somebody when it lands in boston."

[Andreas-vrvs]

people 30km away from tom: "why are here so many tennis balls?"

[Wintergatan]

You had me at Flywheel, awesome video

[theinspector]

I love the way nearly all the energy is transferred from flywheel to ball. Splendid!

[danielbrown]

i was thinking 'man that'd be awesome if he put a motor on this thing" right when you said "perhaps i'll put a motor on the crankshaft". can't wait for THAT video lol, thanks for the great content

[PlasmaChannel]

Not going to lie, this was a brilliant demonstration of energy transfer. Hats off to you.

[Bw]

he understands quality not quantity and that’s what makes him such a great youtuber

[TuBui]

couple general trebuchet questions: 1) are launches/launch speeds consistent? 2) can you actually "aim" a trebuchet? (i guess these questions apply both historically and for this modern rendition)

[ttneiltt]

Really great stuff! Genius interpretation of a trebuchet and look forward to seeing more!

[Asdayasman]

"A crank handle" NO MOUNT A BIKE THERE

Legs are better than arms.

EDIT: You in the replies are all missing the point - this is cool because it's human-powered. If you can get more power out of the human, it will shoot further and be cooler. "Put an engine on there lmao" is no longer cool, you may as well just make a vaccuum cannon or something (which is also cool, but for very different reasons).