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How to Build a Catapult

Step 15Throw Some Freaking Awesome Stuff!

Throw Some Freaking Awesome Stuff!
You've gotta throw some cool stuff at this point, which led us to throw items such as:

  • Metal pipes
  • Tomatoes
  • Apples
  • Oranges
  • Frozen cantaloupe
  • Pseudo-flaming metal pipes
  • Champagne bottles
  • Scrap wood

Our personal record was somewhere around 100 yards, with a metal pipe, which isn't too shabby. In the video, you can see those 18-wheelers in the background... yeah, we hit those =).
Oh man - those were such good times!
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Aug 17, 2009. 5:02 PM0087adam says:
did you consider using timber-framing joints and all 4x4. I got some old pallets to cut up and have tons of 4x4 so i think im going to try that.

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