The Great Punkin' Chunkin' Competition

Is it time for DMS to build another trebuchet?

Paging Mr. @Brandon_Green

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/5af3rf/dallas_makerspace_built_an_all_steel_1_ton/

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Sign me up!!

Memorial Park is only about 1000’ x 1000’ or ~1400’ corner-to-corner so I suspect something smaller scale than 2016 is called for.

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lol…I think that particular pumpkin may still be in orbit.

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The 2016 Slingfest set a new Slingfest distance record for 800 feet (Paul Sanders, Lavaca Arkansas, I think) so 1000 feet might actually be workable.

Our longest shot (the one that didn’t break) was 705 feet.

Bigger issue might be azimuth accuracy …

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Any reason one of our finest moments is members only?

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Great question! I have the impression the Trebuchet Team was interseted in member input, not looky-lou input at the time. Wonder if we’d be OK to move it to non-members only…

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Perhaps we were being overly paranoid about the “competition”?

No, Slingfest was well before someone went through and changed almost everything to members only.

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Suspect the category got caught up in said … zeal … yeah … we’ll go with that.

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