Recently me and my partner Cole M made a trebuchet in Mr. Romani’s Power Technology class and we were successful at creating a working tabletop trebuchet, It successfully fires a projectile forward around 40% of the time. Here we have 3 examples of it firing and a example of it failing.

The first successful video is the first successful one we got on camera.

 

The Second one was recorded outside and was the one we got the least recodring of sadly its only the golf ball flying through the air and hitting the ground. Its hard to see the golf ball but its around the middle of the video.

 

The final successful attempt I will put in this post is a video of the trebuchet launching the golf ball and it bouncing allot.

 

Here is the fail I said I’d put un the post: