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Thomas's Projects Whatever I'm currently working on, with ruminations and maybe some recollections.  06/09/2009 02:22 pm   39 
I need Pumpkin Chuckers!  11/21/2008 11:13 am   0 
Pumpkin Launching I want help. I want a simple way to launch pumpkins oh about the size of footballs, a couple of pounds. I the most simple plans so I can launch about a 3 or 4 pound pumkin 50ft?  09/02/2008 10:01 am   1 
Greg's Catapult Projects My various catapult related ideas and projects.  08/29/2008 02:11 am   20 
  How do I list a competition on The Hurl? We have 4th Annual Hedgball CHuckin Contest in Eureka, KS and want more competitors. Thanks for your help!  08/18/2008 10:24 pm   0 
Higher and Lower are better My opinions on the affect of beam ratio on Whippers  01/18/2008 08:08 pm   1 
Proj. Umm.....I'm looking for like an expert on trebuchets so i could interview with..  10/19/2007 08:28 pm   1 
Fishy Siege A list of all of my hurling related events.  07/31/2007 05:38 pm   29 
Piman's hurl anything I feel like posting, but not putting on the message board  05/20/2007 09:12 pm   9 
Atomic Sling Theory The unraveling of a fevered mind  05/09/2007 06:48 am   1 
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LiangJieming, 09:21 am, 06/29/2009: LOL! Ok walker. We're have to agree to disagree on this one. :D
RIPCORD, 07:58 am, 06/28/2009: "Slings" posting made on too little coffee or sleep but there it is.
SpringTreb, 08:03 am, 06/26/2009: Beam ratio PDFs. Hopefully these will be helpful to someone. :)
RIPCORD, 11:21 am, 06/19/2009: Morgana, the Kissing Bandit, is easy to find, albeit retired now. "Team Morgana" though...still searching.
Walker, 07:14 am, 06/19/2009: Anyone know how to get a hold of Morgana?
Walker, 06:54 am, 06/19/2009: Read the context, Liang. Arrows and great rocks were hurled. It takes more faith to fight it than to accept it as record.
RIPCORD, 09:51 am, 06/18/2009: I'd buy it too, if only to take aim on the 'boomer' cars that pass my home.
Murray, 04:48 pm, 06/16/2009: I'd buy it of I could afford it. I'll just have to settle for building one.
DARIVS_ARCHITECTVS, 01:12 am, 06/15/2009: 3/4 ton AUTHENTIC BALLISTA FOR SALE. See DARIVS ARCHITECTVS' post for details.
LiangJieming, 11:42 am, 06/11/2009: Didn't we have like this discussion already years ago? I think one conclusion was that those "machines" may have been simple rock slides, projectiles "rammed" down a chute shooting thru snd off the towers walls.
Thomas, 02:25 pm, 06/10/2009: Matters of faith are a touchy subject. Not many people see the Bible as an accurate historical record. It's doubtful that much in the way of "machines" existed at that time.
Walker, 08:04 am, 06/09/2009: All I'm saying is that the Persians got the idea from somewhere and Israel had the machines. invaded
Walker, 08:01 am, 06/09/2009: The same "researchers" who put the DOW later also interpret the unknown hebrew word as battering ram. Who puts battering rams on the towers to hurl great stones?
Walker, 07:42 am, 06/09/2009: I know skeptics place the date of writing much later than 791-739 BC where my conservative Biblical studies place the date. The Uzziah record from 2nd Chron 26:15 predates most any other treb record.
Walker, 07:39 am, 06/09/2009: Uzziah's "Machines" were placed on the battlements and hurled large stones and arrows. The concept could be stolen and reapplied.
LiangJieming, 12:13 pm, 06/08/2009: lol good point. Still, the evidence is intriguing. Hundreds of round 5-40lb stone balls, strong fortifications...
RIPCORD, 11:16 pm, 06/07/2009: Okay but, were the walls built in response to the catapults or the other way around? (Chicken or egg first?)
LiangJieming, 01:13 pm, 06/07/2009: Amélie Kuhrt argues in her 2002 paper on the excavations of the Tash-K’irman Oasis that 5th century BC Persian fortifications already show solid curtain walls of the type usually attributed to those introduced into Asia only AFTER Alexander's catapults