Constructing a Trebuchet - Mythbusters - S10 EP01 - Science Documentary

This episode Confirms my theory that the last 2 seasons are no longer about specific myths, but just 2 dudes with a large budget and an excellent camera crew. Lets just build something cool, what can you think of? "well I've always wanted to build a trebuchet..." They knew the game was over, so they were just having fun with it. And I'm all for that!

I love when they write don't try this at home. What?! I shouldn't bankrupt myself buying duct tape to reenact a myth busters episode! Don't tell me what to do!

When i was a teenager a few of my cousins and I had the bright idea to utilize the tractor, an ungodly amount of rope, chain, lags, and a few retired old telephone poles to build a massive trebuchet. We got about 4 rounds off shooting 2.5lb concrete shot we cast and hit over 650ft on the fourth. On the fifth we scored an even more impressive ~150lbs 20ft vertical as one of the legs that was buried 6ft deep ripped out of the ground right under me and gave me a taste of my own medicine. spent the rest of that family reunion in a wheelchair.

28:02 "No plan survives first contact with implementation". It is said the German Field marshal, known as "Moltke the Elder" (Helmuth von Moltke) believed in a well developed, and flexible, series of courses of action for battle, would always be much superior, instead of a single rigid plan. He served in the Second Schleswig War, Franco-Prussian War, and Austro-Prussian War. He was aptly described as "an organized and tactical genius" fully demonstrated by his long service, in the Prussian military.

Thank you for the multiple episodes ❤

hey MythBusters , can you make a duct out of duct tape?

Yesssssss love watching this show!!!!

Wheels. I remember watching a challenge program years ago, might have been scrapheel challenge, or Brainiac, or something like that. Anyway, they had to build trebuchet to fire at a castle wall (which they also built). they couldnt get close. UNTIL, they took the brakes off the wheels. At that point, they didnt just hit the wall, they could fire over it. They worked out that in taking the wheels off, the trebuchet starts off moving back, but then shoots forward, adding loads of power to the throw.

Great episode

Nylon fibre tape is insanely strong under tension, they could've done so much with that over the years.

46:08 - You're Going to need a bigger Duct Tape Trebuchet !

Jaimie said: “applied in the right way”

29:48 you could use a variety of things, barbed wire for example would hold him in

Bring them back !!

Should have filled the bouncy shark with Gas, lolz!

46:07 OMG!! :) ... I 100% KNEW for sure!! .. That it was going to be an inflatable bouncy Castle !!... How wrong could I have been!! ??? :)

That got incredibly polluting at the end

look at that black smoke burning the slide. just before this episode, i watched the one about reducing a motorbike's pollution - what an irony... 🙄

How do you have so many episodes I haven’t seen?

i feel it would be stronger if theydrilled holes and put the ducttape ropes thru and tighten it w a squueze like they mentioned