Giant Trebuchet: Daily Planet

[@ericstoverink6579]

For the last shot they researched the chemistry upgrade.

[@filipesantos9373]

LOL

[@kairinase]

Strike a building with a sword, and it burns!!!

[@ratnadeepsharma964]

11

[@Illsovrano]

Only the real niggas get this

[@Piwde]

Civ?

[@ithinkihavethesauce1198]

"Let Me show you it's features" The last thing France heard

[@rootabeta9015]

HA HA HA HA

[@theworldoverheavan560]

lol

[@pratik1568]

Joergesprave is the best

[@mandrill173]

Thanks and Bye Bye!

[@ricotaline]

France was the greatest power in Europe from 987 to 1919.

[@nicolastrujillo8448]

Germany rebuilding their military to be compliant with the Treaty of Versaille c. 1919

[@MWcrazyhorse]

meh still enough to conquer France!

[@h2w25]

@brutus brutalis they did win...the real Nazi's became US citizens via project paperclip giving us organizations like NASA and the CIA by way of the OSS...it's all declassified, in fact I am sure there are several youtube videos about it. Hitler and his boys went to Argentina.

[@h2w25]

A more peaceful place

[@h2w25]

Obviously, however that’s what has been prophesied to happen. We can’t get to the end of the world without Israel coming back

[@JohnSmith-lf4be]

@@h2w25 the state of Israel is an evil nation which rejects God. The Catholic Church is Israel.

[@Maverick99]

This is quality KZbin right here.

[@dogefort8410]

You're aware of colin furze then?

[@bobbyjoethe1manshow]

Amen

[@s0uthp4w68]

@@dogefort8410 The last time I checked he was having some problems, Maybe he should watch this video.

[@survivalizeed]

When do you release the next Leveldesign?

[@Mimi-si6qk]

@@dogefort8410 FCC cfrrfttttdswssydgfygvjbv

[@ergile172]

her: he's probably with another girl me and the boys:

[@lild3838]

Trebuchet gang!!!!

[@lukeethanboswell6338]

Let us crusade brothers

[@Freeknickers24]

Playing with your balls and poles.

[@kristofprogamer8746]

i shall join

[@sumpfhuhn7266]

​@@kristofprogamer8746 Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

[@stkk7186]

Somewhere near to the german-polish border...

[@SkyForceOne2]

They're gonna go west first cuz the French r building a medieval castle :P

[@flyingdoctor99]

German Czech Border ;)

[@hatter3555]

POLAND: *OH NO*

[@bauma9015]

@@SkyForceOne2 sorry but the French would have surendered by now if they had put it near the french.

[@riograndedosulball248]

"You all will see who is the owner of Silesia and Pomerania"

[@martinfischer3824]

When the allies restrict your army size into oblivion, but you still try to find a way to bombard Paris.

[@thatdutchguy2882]

London and Washington

[@imthesenate6468]

We need to make zis bigger Hans!

[@brohemian]

paris is blowing itself up at least

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@@brohemian yep

[@Francois_Dupont]

import third world into their country, weakening them without firing a single shot.

[@TheOljarna]

Just make sure you keep your trebuchet behind your troops, unlike some unsullied....

[@kirklongo]

Yeah that battle had a lot of errors

[@diggencash9039]

This ^^

[@missingMBR]

And why would you send your cavalry in first?

[@TheOljarna]

Exactly heheh this is just mind boggling, isnt it directing 101 to pit all effort in the story?? The visuals and cgi and soundtrack and all the special effects are just to AMPLIFY the story itself if game of thrones was a house the story is the bulding blocks and the cgi,cinematics... are rhe roof they cleaely built the roof before the foundation, it will collapse

[@102830189291]

They could only shoot 1 shot anyway. I mean it takes mitutes to reload and you could hurt your own troops if it is in the back.

[@longlivingdude]

5:49 Nobody has anything to say about that awesome sound? Sounds like an incoming asteroid or something!

[@engimo94]

It was so damn badass

[@iAmTheOneAndOnlyE]

Because it 𝙄𝙎

[@redgrengrumbholdt2671]

Imagine living in a medieval castle and seeing that coming towards the portcullis.

[@dawneltruhm8163]

Imagine if they explode.... Imagine first

[@hibahprice6887]

Better a lot of stones wrapped in burning rags, the sounds of dozens of flying fighters .. Well, or what sounded like that at that time?

[@Rubashow]

"We need to destroy this shed to prove that the trebuchet is safe!"

[@Yourebeautyfull]

Well I guess they would not want someone elses shed destroyed.... Or do they... :P

[@gimcurang1640]

What if a shotgun shell stuck inside the weapon when the first shotgun was made? They need to try it and make sure the gun is safe for the *user* Yes, I know the jokes, I only share my thought unless anyone got misunderstand.

[@casaxtreme2952]

Wait trebs don't fire every 10 seconds and don't pack / unpack in 7 seconds?

[@huibvanderveur3015]

Casa Xtreme not like in age of empires eh?

[@emillebest]

Also disappointed when i went to church. Priest didn't do the "Wololoo"

[@simon-pierrelussier2775]

10 seconds reload? It takes 180 seconds to go from the feudal age to the castle age, 10 seconds is like 2-3 years.

[@georgplaz]

@@emillebest you follow the wrong religion my friend

[@emillebest]

@@georgplazI'm pagan now.

[@23madrabbit]

France: builds medieval castle. Germany: starts developing humongous trebauchets. France: Ah shit, here we go again.

[@xdroar5412]

France:Surrenders

[@23madrabbit]

@Maxime Bariteau aaaaand thats why nobody will help you next time.

[@rudiausbudln4649]

@Maxime Bariteau ohhhh poor french boi

[@mqx1269]

France: Gets new flag (blank)

[@tigerguy009gaming3]

Maxime Bariteau are you franch?

[@rnedisc]

Not quite 90kg and 300 meters but they're definitely getting there!

[@Kris.G]

@@Bruh69_420 General Kenobi!

[@ashtonduda9971]

If he installed a whipper trebuchet would have capabilities of 900meters or more

[@Kriegerdammerung]

I have read this joke like seven times, I can't understand it because the context is unknown to me. Could you explain me please?

[@tobiw1998]

@@Kris.G The Negotiator

[@hakonmarcus]

Kriegerdammerung it's from reddit, the subreddit r/trebuchetmemes are known for insisting that trebuchets are superior to other catapults. The running gag is that no other siege weapon is able to launch a 90 kg projectile 300 meters. Probably some serious armchair siege engineer commented this long ago and people kept repeating it until it lost all connection to the original comment.

[@keighlancoe5933]

The English built what was at the time, the world's largest trebuchet outside of Falkirk castle in Scotland, they called it 'Warwolf.' The castle had already surrendered, but king Edward didn't want to waste the trebuchet as it took three months to build, so ordered they fire on the castle anyway.

[@mat5473]

Thus destroying/damaging a castle that probably took 10 years to build...and which was about to be theirs! What a douche.

[@MrSebeppel]

Thats good, imagine the disappointment when they dont fire the damn thing after you spent 3 months building it

[@keighlancoe5933]

@@MrSebeppel that would suck I guess, but they did fire it quite a few times.

[@seanmessick9330]

They also made the defenders go back inside and man the walls while they fired it

[@strateg.o]

@@seanmessick9330 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@njorunmimisofficial]

Honestly wish there was more medival events like this around the world. . . It is a better experience than sitting at home doing pretty much nothing.

[@mike_oe]

Then do something fcs 😉

[@Chungie_]

are you watching this video from home? or watching it while in a medieval event?..🤔

[@Wright1331]

then gtfo more

[@kyrkvardlukas9174]

Roses are red, water comes in liters, a trebuchet uses a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 meters.

[@l.ahrens231]

What is red in Imperial?

[@ErikB605]

@@l.ahrens231 In SI units it is a wavelength 625-740 nanometres. If you take the smallest imperial unit (thou) it would be 0,025 to 0,029 thou.

[@rbrand6588]

@@ErikB605 are you sure?

[@l.ahrens231]

@@ErikB605 Best possible answer. Thanks

[@ErikB605]

@Doctor BeBop {"red" ∈ COLORS} ≙ {(x,y): x∈ℝ, y∈Unit: 2.5*10^-2

[@Fede_uyz]

France builds a medieval castle and a 16th century tall ship. Germans are building and testing better trabuchets, each day more and more people are into historical european martial arts (HEMA), weapons and armor... could it be that Einstein was wrong and in fact the 3rd world war was to be the medieval one?

[@MarkChimes]

He said he didn't know with what weapons WW3 will be thought. Might well be trebuchets. 😉

[@Fede_uyz]

@@MarkChimes no, but he implied that the 3rd would be world devastating weapons (H bombs and such) and the 4th would be fought with sticks..... i recon the 3rd would be with this

[@datblackdoge683]

seems like germany is prepared to take the french medieval castle... :D

[@Fede_uyz]

@@datblackdoge683 damn it, this is the reason why we cant have nice things

[@SkyForceOne2]

@@Fede_uyz You can't, Germany can tho :D

[@seanbeh360]

Ah the superior siege weapon riseth again

[@anderzzzzz]

French solider: "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" English knight: Gets triggered German artillery: "Feuer!"

[@kairinase]

The only thing that could save France is an army of mimes making enormous walls, but their instructor surrendered first.

[@amnesiahaze6470]

@@kairinase 😂😂😂

[@husker3345]

* German artillery hits strong castle walls made of rock instead of wooden pallets * It's not very effective...

[@tennetuckypreparedness1713]

Stop you English kinighit. I will fart in your general direction. Go away or I will taunt you a second time.

[@Defensor_Fidei]

Germany didnt exist since this time you damn idiots

[@TinkerTailor.]

I built my own trebuchet several years ago. One thing they could improve on is the release point. The release is a bit too late. You want the release to be at the point at which the counterweight jerks forward at the bottom of the pull. They could achieve this by shortening the sling ropes. Wonderful piece of machinery!

[@rubenheymans1988]

also when the stone hit the pole, it barely moved, irl how could they destroy stone castles with this?

[@蘑菇-f1z]

@@rubenheymans1988 irl they can't so that's why people build castles. It's invincible before cannons are invented (not far later than trebuchet though)

[@tiringsarcasm]

@@rubenheymans1988The easy answer is throw bigger stones and build bigger tebuchets( examples: the Warwolf at Stirling castle). But it has other uses besides destroying walls such as flinging animal corpses to spread disease, targetting specific buildings behind the walls, targetting the defenders on top of the ramparts, etc. There are anumber of creative and destructive ways trebuchets were sued for.

[@tiringsarcasm]

@@蘑菇-f1zNot quite, it largely depends on the available resources and the wealth of the guy funding it. During the Crusades Richard the Lionheart had 2 such trebuchet capable of throwing a metric ton(a small car), one was called “God’s own sling/catapult” and the other “Bad neighbour”. So imagine chucking a small car at a city over the course of several days, weeks, or even months. Maybe it won’t break at first but if the walls have any weak spots at all it might crack at the continued pressure. And even if the walls withstand the attacks then I’m sure the houses inside won’t survive being crushed by the boulders.

[@winterroadspokenword4681]

@@蘑菇-f1zTrebuchets were in no hurry. Over the course of two weeks their rock slinging every ten mins would do it’s job I can assure you!

[@basstell4617]

Wahnsinnige Konstrution! Respekt an alle, die da mitgemacht haben!

[@MrSvenovitch]

"There was no facebook or ppl playing with Iphones". It takes only going back 10-20 years for that, not 1000

[@onepointufo]

that does not make their statement wrong. Tryhard smartass

[@Munkenba]

Lol I thought that. Go back thirty years maybe and you get to live in that sweet spot before the internet but after everyone is done shitting themselves to death, cutting hands off over stolen bread and praying that their 9th child will finally be the one to live to ten.

[@kylerenneberg3069]

700 years but yes

[@fennisdembo34]

same thoughts

[@fennisdembo34]

@@onepointufo no, but it makes less relevant

[@BenjaminAster]

Anyone else here after Colin Furze built his own trebuchet?

[@Danokh]

Yep, I wonder which one is bigger

[@patrickbaitman8336]

@@Danokh This one seems bigger, thiccer, more period correct, and more accurate.

[@blise518B]

@@patrickbaitman8336 but Colins is probably a lot more stable and can take more weight because it’s made out of metal. Wheels also help to transfer more energy into the projectile.

[@leonidas7746]

Colin's trebuchet seemed to be loaded heavier, so he throws quite a bit further. If he fixed his sling mechanism and lodges his wheels in the ground he might throw it even further

[@jurj4108]

@@blise518B hmm, I'm afraid I need to correct you a bit here. 🤔 First point: A trebuchet made out of metal is in fact less stable then one that is made out of wood. Might sound counter intuitive but let me explain: Metal is of course a much harder and stronger material than wood. But that is actually a bad thing in this case. Because due to it being harder it also means that it is more rigid and stiff. Which is a bad thing, cause we are dealing with an immense amount of force put on to the mechanisms, joints and most importantly the shaft when the contraption is shot. So therefore wood is a better solution as a construction material for a device like this one because it has a certain amount of needed flex to compensate the impact of the transferred energy. Basically: Harder material doesn't necessarily mean superior. Really depends on context and requirements. Second point: Wheels would only help to decrease the amount of transferred energy a bit. The trebuchet needs to be properly settled in a solid manner in order for the counterweight mechanism to function optimally. Wheels just gives the machine more unwanted wiggle. (Which in the end works anyways though. I guess a fixed one would just be the 'optimal' solution....) Hope that made sense 🖖

[@miguelesteves263]

6:06 German guy: are we happy? Me: I'm actually a little depress... Everyone else: *YEAAAAAH* Me: ok

[@christopherdean1326]

Of course they're happy! They've got a fecking trebuchet!!!!

[@dannymccune1888]

Also known as the Bad Neighbor. It was either Scientific American or the Smithsonian magazine, some time in the 80's, that had an article about a couple of retired British men that built what might have the first trebuchet made since gun powder and cannons made them obsolete centuries ago. Theirs was pretty big - they tossed an upright piano and a small car (Austin Healy, sans engine). My son and I made one out of Popsicle sticks to throw marbles.

[@UkraineJames2000]

Damn kids Trebuchet'd a flaming boulder through my window again. That's the third house this year.

[@D4RKBRU73]

Haha xD

[@raymondo162]

I want to see the video of how the kids get the boulder to 'flame'

[@MK_ULTRA420]

I'm imagining an old Scottish king saying that about the English.

[@raymondo162]

well documented: trebuchets work better if the whole thing is mounted on wheels. when you fire, the weight drops straight down in a straight line, while the chassis moves back and forth.

[@allrad4911]

Well you need to have wooden wheels that A) can hold the weight and B) can move on muddy ground. Those would be some big wheels.

[@Lappmogel]

@@allrad4911 Square logs on the ground, round logs underneath the trebuchet. Its going back and forth so you don't need to have actual wheels.

[@philipcharleshogan6565]

I thought they were for firing only once during blind dothraki charges?

[@tomt.8387]

Spoilers dude hahaha

[@MsSomeonenew]

Spending time reloading ineffective weapons minutes before the onslaught... probably not time well spent.

[@buriedalive3192]

Sending 70% of a castle's army out into the field to face a practically infinite enemy is also probably not a good idea. Those trebuchets should have stayed in the castle wit the army

[@mindjuice499]

They shouldve just turtled inside the castle and swept the masses with dragonfire guess most of em wanted to die

[@buriedalive3192]

Yeah, the dead aren't exactly known as expert archers

[@delinquenter]

As a german, it's incredibly satisfying to watch us learn the art of medieval warfare all the while the french are rebuilding castles. If given the chance, I might sign myself up for this as well. Can't wait to try it out.

[@docfpv9569]

Well done guys, that was amazing to see something out of the middle ages in action and with flames 👌

[@finntastique3891]

Drei, zwei, eins, feuer! I trust German engineers - they know their stuff.

[@theworldoverheavan560]

@Samuel Davidson is that a jojo reference

[@elonmush4793]

and the one stanza that we don't sing

[@originellername3062]

@Samuel Davidson back in the good ol' days :)

[@numbereightyseven]

Yeah, but it will require far more expensive maintenance than a Japanese one. Make sure you purchase the extended warrantee...

[@dyanpanda7829]

Did it trigger anyone else that the preview only showed a ballista?

[@zaiohellgren9266]

I triggered that they didnt balance their bolt well so it only flopped around in the air

[@milesarcher8502]

No.

[@Samitarium]

All that effort and the range was something like 1/4 of what machine of that size should manage. The "sling" was way too long for example. It was practically dropping the stones. There were almost no ballistic trajectory at all. Good looking machine though.

[@sosig6445]

If they would do it correctly it could launch a stone 800 meters away... however they said that the spectators will be close to the target, and that cannot be done with extreme range as it will leave more chance for missing the target.

[@cass7448]

I expect they were deliberately not pushing the range for safety reasons. The shot needs to be completely predictable, and they can't afford to put to much stress on the trebuchet itself - the forces involved mean that an unexpected breakage of the mechanism could easily result in injuries or even deaths. Also it would be a pain to retrieve the shot every time if it went much further.

[@rbnhd1976]

5:05 looks like it launches fairly quick

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

I’ve always been fascinated with trebuchet’s. First from reading about them and seeing pictures/illustrations, more recently on KZbin actual demonstrations. This one is by far the best I’ve seen!👍

[@markodelic75]

class is going to germany girls: omg maybd we'll see heidi klumm boys:

[@Sebastian-mn4gp]

Who would like to see that bloody betrayer?

[@wlfgang]

heidi klum lives in america since the 90s lol

[@kooroshrostami27]

Nobody wants to see that miserable Scarecrow.

[@AnthonyKravitz]

"Somebody pimped up this trebuchet!" - Marcus Aurelius

[@jonathanallard2128]

a classic quote. Legend says Aurelius' trebuchet had chrome wheels and sick bass.

[@IlGonfaloniere]

"Beautiful day for a battle!" - Foltest, the king of Temeria, Prince of Sodden, sovereign of Pontar and Mahakam, suzerain of Ellander, Senior protector of Brugge, Angren and Riverdell while standing next to a massive trebuchet right before the start of the battle for castle La Valette.

[@spicemarine4k958]

stories, elephants stop insulting mathematics and measurements

[@farfaraway2006]

Its the american way of thinking

[@mekaniklboltmb4880]

They measure things in bald eagles per football camps

[@ninjahombrepalito1721]

You need to be able to make people invision a comparison of the size and weight. If it's all numbers, the sense kinda gets lost.

[@Francois_Dupont]

about 13 jumping jack tall and weight like something around 40 big books! american: WOAH!!!

[@ninjahombrepalito1721]

@@Francois_Dupont we are a more practical and direct people.

[@HipHopRepair]

Finally a place where I can unload my outdated trebouchet memes

[@jasminsekic3758]

where they at thou

[@Royale9]

Post them already

[@kooroshrostami27]

Germans might not me the most humerous people or cook the most gourmet cuisine, but their engineering has always been top tier

[@MorningNapalm]

Germans have a wonderful dry sense of humour, but you need to look for it, they don't advertise it. There is also some great German food. You should visit sometime.

[@delinquenter]

Sir, you are *HEAVILY* misinformed, if you believe that we neither can't do humour, nor cooking. Our love for bread, meat and potatoes let's us make the finest cuisine in that regard you could get in all of europe. Just eat at a good reasteraunt and you'll know. And we just have a differen sort of humour that's still done well. We enjoy dark and griddy humour. That's what we're good at. *Cease thy silly prejudices.*

[@bigtime69420]

You think hundreds of years from now, people are going to be rebuilding an m1 abrams tank for a “2000s” festival of some kind

[@nafismunandar4275]

With all that hard work and suddenly random enemy WOLOLOed the trebs

[@navaryn2938]

seeing it in real life makes you realize how damn scary it must've been to be on the other side of that machine during a battle or a siege

[@granola661]

and imagining multiple of those things would be firing non-stop for months

[@lbgstzockt8493]

This absolute unit of the superior siege engine brings a tear to my eye

[@edelweiss-]

I not even knew that they were german till i heared "3, 2, 1, Feuer!" lol

[@erikaushamburg8279]

Ehrenmänner! Größten Respekt vor diesem Handwerk!

[@hatter3555]

Typical polish person seeing this: *OH NO*

[@10hawell]

A typical Polish Hussar: Mieczysław, put wings on a horses... 😑

[@hatter3555]

@@10hawell Forget horse! *THEY GOT PANZERS*

[@10hawell]

@@hatter3555 In WWII, Poland also had tanks, and the Germans also had cavalry. So just let Bolesław mount wings on tanks...

[@WranglerSlim]

The Poles aren’t worried about a German invasion. Germany is too busy getting invaded by the same Islamist invaders that they were launching crusades against in medieval times. With as good as they are at surrendering nowadays, even the French are starting to look braver.

[@10hawell]

@@WranglerSlim That's bullshit, we don't care about muslim invasion it's not our problem our borders are closed. Poland has never participated in the crusades, we fought the Ottomans as equals. And every time when people die in terrorist attacks in Germany, we think "oh that's a poo poo, it's a pity they're such morons, their problem, they shouldn't support Nord Stream 2, maybe than we would care". Also France is worse than Germany.

[@johncote2776]

At the start of this video i thought....."They should light the stone on fire" They delivered! Pretty cool!

[@FingerAngle]

The hanger axle shifted on my big treb one time. It caused some damage, but I fixed it and installed axle locks.

[@raymondo162]

jolly well done, you

[@FingerAngle]

@@raymondo162 Here's my big one. Half the size of the one above. I'm building a 5 story one too, but a Whipper Trebuchet. It will have over a 1,500 meter range, and set a new world distance record.

[@FingerAngle]

@@raymondo162 The one in my video is the largest wooden one of its kind ever built, and the second largest Whipper of any kind ever built, by a few feet. I also built the largest, most powerful Inswinger Ballista in the world.

[@alexsamaniego9061]

Thats Awesome. Medieval times has always fascinated me. Thanks for the video.

[@k9uominiecani59]

Good job. However, we remember that that trebuchet would be one of the small ones, because some could throw stone balls weighing 1500 kg (15 quintals), as the Venetians did in the fifteenth century by besieging Gorizia.

[@andreinita1367]

damn, wish I had this kind of a friends activities in the weekend..

[@timtravasos2742]

Great build. Good testing and adjustment.

[@davisx2002]

no archers taking shots at them... come on

[@MsSomeonenew]

If you built your trebuchet properly then archers should be out of range.

[@kooroshrostami27]

archers won't be able to shoot you from a castle that's 300m away.

[@johannesneumann5987]

@@kooroshrostami27 xD u seriously have no clue of bows obviously.

[@kooroshrostami27]

@@johannesneumann5987 accuracy at 300m is very low it's about the maximum range that long bows can shoot

[@johannesneumann5987]

@@kooroshrostami27 you really think you care about accuracy in that type of battle? You just fire salves of many many arrows....nobody cares about accuracy there.

[@garyjames2931]

Had a dispute with a neighbour who put up a new fence which encroached 2cm into my garden, so I built one of these.

[@_.Mike.__]

Thanks to Colin Furze, KZbin thinks I like trebuchets now! I guess its not wrong haha

[@ardalla535]

The trebuchet "Warwolf"at the siege of Stirling Castle: "The Warwolf could reportedly accurately hurl rocks weighing as much as three hundred pounds (140 kg) from distance of 200 meters and level a large section of the curtain wall." When the Scots saw the machine they tried to surrender. It was refused. The siege continued.

[@rafekinder6376]

youtube knows what's up Superior siege engine gang rise up

[@peteraugust5295]

crazy how little damage that 75kg rock does after flying 100meters thru the air.

[@FLATSTONE]

bruh if that shit hits a castle then the castles done.

[@peteraugust5295]

@@FLATSTONE definitely not. Not even close.

[@atmos5569]

@@peteraugust5295 You would imagine that the shots would be aimed for a weak point, wood, or other trebuchets. that 75kg rock would destroy most things it touches including castle walls, it doesn't look like it does much because it's hitting the dirt in a very anticlimactic fashion and the dirt is absorbing the majority of the impact... you know... except for the massive hole it created. o7

[@peteraugust5295]

@@atmos5569 It is straight out hitting a beam and really doesnt do to much damage. If a Trebuche would take down a wall easily, sieges wouldnt have gone on for weeks or even month.

[@Venca8787]

When they invented walls under build under degree not straight, those walls even survived canon fire... :)

[@mysteryman2219]

Nice Trebuchet. You must be Imperial Age.

[@DhruvinBusa]

Crazy how even a 1000 years later we find it hard to replicate medieval / ancient tech.

[@ixxxxxxx]

and it was much harder for the people who invented the tech all those years ago without the tools and resources we have today

[@HammocksRule]

Modern day health and safety has a lot to do with this. Throwing caution to the wind it would be quite easy to double the machine power, how many "gun crew do you mind losing?

[@raphoperleche5401]

0:11 We live in a time where we can see a recently built medieval super weapon and a flying aircraft behind it. At least in Germany.

[@leone.6190]

"Also gut,we are ready to shoot" Netter Reim/nice rhyme :D

[@Fabio4408]

Incredible and very interesting video. My sincere compliments from an Italian Archer. Without any doubt, one of the most beautiful video made on this particular machine ciao Fabio

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

Bella

[@Vikingr4Jesus5919]

Can I join please? This lifestyle definitely had its charms! I mean, seriously, these guys combine a modern-day lifestyle with a Medieval, outdoor lifestyle. No nonsense like Social Media and such, but real proper team work. And 5:47 just proves how satisfying that really can be!

[@bombasticbushkin4985]

Lot of ingenuity, lot of work but not a lot of damage. But great work team. The recreation is amazing.

[@fares3651]

TL;DR: lube makes everything better

[@simon6157]

French: building castle. Germany: 5:48

[@BruneSixtine]

Trébuchet is a French invention sir.

[@simon6157]

But in france they're building a castle using only medival methods rn. And this trebuchet was built by germans in Germany.

[@chipdale2571]

@@BruneSixtineNo it is not. It first appeared in Asia. I found it in several sources. There it was invented long before France so...

[@BruneSixtine]

@@simon6157 Ah yes you're right

[@BruneSixtine]

@@chipdale2571 Ok that's a cool story, but trébuchet still has a French name, and was first introduced by France from Bretagne to the Etats Chrétiens d'Orient in the holy land.

[@hallstuart6604]

And here I am sitting in an office for a living....

[@peterlustig6888]

They do this in their free time

[@gregorkerka1235]

This is my dream job, try working at a construction.

[@binbows2258]

Somebody should recreate Warwolf and bust down some walls with it

[@redbarret123]

This is just one machine. Imagine being on a wall of a castle and watching 200 of these fire stones at you all at once... Truly terrifying!

[@chanakya6735]

On all the sides of castle 🏰

[@georgewrathall5950]

How does it compare to Colin furze’s?

[@MidzOne]

Wooden Trebuchet **fires** Modern artillery tank: Am i a joke to you?

[@kairinase]

No, you're the punchline!

[@timesthree5757]

it would be, "release!"

[@bluefalconssuck5881]

Medieval Enthusiasts: [Build Trebuchet] EU Government _"Am I a joke to you?"_ *Laughs in flaming stone*

[@IlGonfaloniere]

Fuck EU tbh

[@paramed2026]

The KebabRemover28 why? The EU is awesome apart from them passively murdering refugees which is terrible...

[@gubbikiller]

@@paramed2026 nope nope nope, the refugees are not refugees after crossing the first land in peace, then they become immigrants. And EU have yurned into a monster akin to what hiyler envisioned in mein kampf. I say, use the trebuche at the parliament and teach those greasy politicians that mother europe does not tolerate political greed and self Interest. Making rich countries pay for other countries failures are not acceptable. If a nation is mismanaged and close to fall, let it fall and rise by it's own power, if it can not. Then it was doomed to history in its first place.

[@paramed2026]

Commissar Ankerstjerne ehh what the fuck

[@gubbikiller]

@@paramed2026 if you bail someone out each time they fail, they never learn. If things like the eu are suffered to exist then they will be the doom of more than good is. I do think they have brought a lot of good, but they have become too big and too influential. And the time to say no is already past for some. The institution have become power hungry and are undermining national sovereignty, and if someone tries to say no they gets busted by various means, freely given by inept politicians. In a few decades there will be no more nations left, all assimilated I to a United states of Europe, a federation of unimaginable horrors. As they can do whatever they please in Brussels

[@tardwrangler]

I'd love to see a trebuchet competition between two teams rushing to destroy their target the fastest

[@stevemcelmury4618]

Two words... BAD ASS! Jeez Louise... Respeckt, yo!

[@snippykeegan]

back in my day, we called this the crusades.

[@Francois_Dupont]

do you even know what a crusade is? since when does the islamic state had any castle?

[@snippykeegan]

@@Francois_Dupont c'mon, man. its a2-month-old joke. of course, I know the crusades weren't a bunch of medieval guys playing with trebuchets. also its "sense when did the Islamic state have any castles" bad grammar. and... Islam did have fortified castle-like buildings.

[@Francois_Dupont]

@@snippykeegan if you are going to lecture a French person about english grammar first start using correct words not contraction like "c'mon" and its not "sense" its since. *click* screensaved into my fringe folder.

[@aidenhynds4154]

Really cool how I get this after watching colin furzes video

[@marksmithwas12]

Colin Furze fans: fascinating…

[@kkarnik03]

0:43 “there was no Facebook or playing with your iPhone”. No shit, this guy deserves the noble prize for history.

[@rolfbowinkler4189]

I Love that people do these project! Good on ya!

[@toraguchitoraguchi9154]

I don't know what they were celebrating about because the range was pathetic. The medieval trebuchets had a range that at least put them out of range of bowshot, for obvious reasons. Did not optimize the angle of release, did not allow for maximum acceleration and finally they did not grease the machine. Are they even engineers????

[@kovona]

Often the crew worked during the night when the defenders couldn't see them. The first shot will be incendiary, which served to light up the enemy's fortification.

[@toraguchitoraguchi9154]

@@kovona This trebuchet is not the same as the types used in medieval times. Obviously a redesign is necessary to get the angles right. I doubt somebody who doesn't know how to grease a machine can achieve it.

[@thewaterdrop123]

@@toraguchitoraguchi9154 They surely could fire further but that would be to dangerous and not needed. The people wont really see an impact in 800m and the wind would influence the projectile to much.

[@toraguchitoraguchi9154]

@@thewaterdrop123 It hardly hit the target 50 meters away!

[@thewaterdrop123]

@@toraguchitoraguchi9154 the target is 136m away

[@Iceyyyyylol]

a guy named collin furze on yt built a way more impressive trebuchet that can fire larger objects and farther that is easier to re load in a week or 2

[@Retro-Future-Land]

True, but his release mechanism and slings are weak compared to the German ones. He needs to get leather slings and copy their release mech.

[@sbeyer17]

This trebutchet isn't build for any YT video, it's just for a festival for a few hundred people each year. And for that it's impressive

[@Purpylon]

Anyone here because of Age of Empires II?

[@eroproman101]

I guess in medieval sieges, the damage of flame is more psychological than physical.

[@burakayan3360]

Eğer yapılar tahtadansa, şehirde yangın çıkartmak içinde kullanıyorlardır

[@daos3300]

excellent condensed version. watching an hour of this would have been painful.

[@kaspernielsen9149]

That looked freaking amazing :D

[@jamiemeier4743]

"There was no facebook, or playing with your Iphone". You could have gone back 20 years for that man....

[@brdyyt6702]

God, how fun is this?

[@johnnichols8553]

That's a lot of potential energy stored up with the arm back and the bucket up. I think I would put something under the bucket so that it absolutely cannot drop while they are loading the rock, stepping back and forth over the ropes. If that trigger broke, someone could be killed. Still, an amazing device.

[@billy-pb4yp]

Colin Furze sent me here

[@harrisonford-townly5473]

same 😂😂

[@jetpackpony]

1:45 loading up the counterweight. Girl does most heavy lifting 😂

[@elonmush4793]

gender equality

[@tishimself126]

Not "Fire!" - "Loose!" or "Fly!" "Fire" only applied to "Firearms" - when they eventually became a thing.

[@igorvoloshin3406]

Well, for that last burning projectile it was the case 😏

[@macroplexx]

Asombroso, de como algo parecido a un juguete puede desarrollar un arma temible. Agradecería algunos calculos de la fuerza del impacto de la piedra, el peso de la piedra y un poco de geometria del Trebuchet (largo del brazo, peso de lanzamiento, longitud esperada y obtenida, etc) Felicitaciones!!

[@sharynhughes1061]

WOW THAT WAS SOOOH AWESOME & INTERESTING!!!! GOOD LUCK TO YOUR FURTHER TRAILS. WOW!! I Love the Histories too.. THANKU!!!!

[@debeerpaul]

1 Point for the Holy Roman Empire!

[@LycmaMilTech]

Bad Neighbour

[@LukeSeeleygamertagisV3XChintzy]

And their cheerful war cry afterwards

[@sanglasakna8959]

Mantap

[@fairongaming9347]

5:40 - Nilfgaardians trying out their new tribuchets against Redania. The power of Nilfgaardian Engineering. 🧐

[@tanith117]

@Mograine You beat me And I'll have a rare card for your collection.

[@dwaipayanroychowdhury7035]

Remember the Nilfgardian armor?

[@cnon.]

For more distance they could change the angle of the peg, it was releasing slightly late. But they made a good fiery shot eventually.

[@maxdecphoenix]

If i'm not mistaken what he said in German is actually "all good things come in threes" in english, a modestly different concept than "third time's a charm." which is typically used in as a more pessimistic optimism.

[@MightyJustas]

1:36 well thats one way to measure weight. Have you heard of metric system, eh?