Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice) the
sleigh was built on Tuesday.

http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...idlang_photos/

6' long x 4' high x 3'6" wide, made from 2 sheets of 18mm ply. Seat, back &
cross supports made from 18mm ply with 47 x 18 softwood frames screwed &
glued. 22 x 6mm bolts into tee nuts hold it together - or allow it to come
apart for storage.

Painting & tinsel courtesy of club manager.

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying ads on
photobucket?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Medway Handyman wrote:

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying
ads on photobucket?

Firefox & Adblock, it's all gone.

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:32:56 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice) the
sleigh was built on Tuesday.

Good stuff! I'm messing around making model siege weapons at the mo...

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying ads on
photobucket?

Google's picasa (picasaweb.google.com) works well for me (when I don't
just use the dumping ground I've got at a friend's ISP). Flickr's probably
pretty good too, although there was something that drove me nuts about
the interface when I tried it a few years ago (but I forget what and
it's probably been fixed now anyway!)

I second Steve though, Firefox and Adblock sort out a *lot* of evils -
for the first time in yonks I saw the other day what the web's like
without it, and it's flippin' horrible :-(

cheers

Jules

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:12:46 -0600, Jules wrote:

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly
annoying
ads on photobucket?

flickr it's quick to display images when clicking through an album
and simple to use.

Google's picasa (picasaweb.google.com) works well for me

IIRC that needs a plugin (flash) to display a still image that 99.9%
of known browsers can display natively. Either that and/or is
'orribly slow to load a page with all the fancy scripting and
******** that are not required.

--
Cheers
Dave.

Jules wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:32:56 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice)
the sleigh was built on Tuesday.

Good stuff! I'm messing around making model siege weapons at the mo...

Wow! I'm into that!

I bought a kit Trebuchet a while ago, about 8" high. I'd love to build a
bigger one. Got any pics?


--
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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Dec 17, 9:32*pm, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice) the
sleigh was built on Tuesday.

http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...idlang_photos/

6' long x 4' high x 3'6" wide, made from 2 sheets of 18mm ply. *Seat, back &
cross supports made from 18mm ply with 47 x 18 softwood frames screwed &
glued. *22 x 6mm bolts into tee nuts hold it together - or allow it to come
apart for storage.

Painting & tinsel courtesy of club manager.

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying ads on
photobucket?

There's a pic or 2 there could be handy on the wiki. Care to let em go
up there?


NT

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:32:56 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice) the
sleigh was built on Tuesday.

http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...idlang_photos/

6' long x 4' high x 3'6" wide, made from 2 sheets of 18mm ply. Seat, back &
cross supports made from 18mm ply with 47 x 18 softwood frames screwed &
glued. 22 x 6mm bolts into tee nuts hold it together - or allow it to come
apart for storage.

Painting & tinsel courtesy of club manager.

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying ads on
photobucket?


flickr?
--
http://www.Christmasfreebies.co.uk
http://www.holidayunder100.co.uk

mogga gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying
ads on photobucket?

flickr?

Or photobucket viewed through Firefox & AdBlockPlus...

NT wrote:
On Dec 17, 9:32 pm, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice)
the sleigh was built on Tuesday.

http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...idlang_photos/

6' long x 4' high x 3'6" wide, made from 2 sheets of 18mm ply. Seat,
back & cross supports made from 18mm ply with 47 x 18 softwood
frames screwed & glued. 22 x 6mm bolts into tee nuts hold it
together - or allow it to come apart for storage.

Painting & tinsel courtesy of club manager.

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly
annoying ads on photobucket?

There's a pic or 2 there could be handy on the wiki. Care to let em go
up there?

Help yourself to any of them metey.

Which ones are handy?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 17 Dec, 23:37, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Good stuff! I'm messing around making model siege weapons at the mo...

Wow! *I'm into that!

AOLMe too!/AOL

8" beam / 30 brick weight trebuchet in the garage (breaks down for car
transport)

I've also been known to make tiny onagers (12" arm)
http://jarkman.co.uk/catalog/random/onager.htm

Andy Dingley wrote:
On 17 Dec, 23:37, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Good stuff! I'm messing around making model siege weapons at the
mo...

Wow! I'm into that!

AOLMe too!/AOL

8" beam / 30 brick weight trebuchet in the garage (breaks down for car
transport)

How cool is that? Wow!

I've also been known to make tiny onagers (12" arm)
http://jarkman.co.uk/catalog/random/onager.htm

Always wanted to build one like that, never had time.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman"
saying something like:

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying ads on
photobucket?

Simply open a flickr account - no such ******** on it and you can block
any of it with noscript, if you're using FF.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Jules
saying something like:

I second Steve though, Firefox and Adblock sort out a *lot* of evils -
for the first time in yonks I saw the other day what the web's like
without it, and it's flippin' horrible :-(

That happened to me recently - I was impressed by how much ****
FF/noscript/adblock had been shielding me from.

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
...
On 17 Dec, 23:37, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Good stuff! I'm messing around making model siege weapons at the mo...

Wow! I'm into that!

AOLMe too!/AOL

8" beam / 30 brick weight trebuchet in the garage (breaks down for car
transport)

I've also been known to make tiny onagers (12" arm)
http://jarkman.co.uk/catalog/random/onager.htm

Technik lego is good for stuff like that.
You can automate it with a mindstorms kit. 8-)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Owain
saying something like:

On 17 Dec, 21:32, "The Medway Handyman" wrote:
Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice) the
sleigh was built on Tuesday.

Very nice, but you forgot the personalised number plate (SAN 7 A) and
if it's a commercial vehicle it needs no-smoking signs on it!

And if Santie's giving away any electrical goods, he'll have to take the
old ones in exchange and for that he'll need a Waste Transport Licence.
It's for everybody's own good, you know.

"NT" wrote in message
...


There's a pic or 2 there could be handy on the wiki. Care to let em go
up there?

Is that the entry.. "how to focus a camera"?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian
saying something like:

mogga gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying
ads on photobucket?

flickr?

Or photobucket viewed through Firefox & AdBlockPlus...

I find photobucket still annoyingly slow most of the time even with all
that enabled. Perhaps it's due to the popularity of the site, but flickr
is Xtimes faster.

On 18 Dec, 12:04, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

8" beam / 30 brick weight trebuchet in the garage (breaks down for car
transport)

How cool is that? *Wow!

I think you mean "How crude is that" 8-)
http://codesmiths.com/siege/build/photos/fire_post.jpg

It's shockingly badly made and was thrown together in an afternoon or
so. Everyone should have one.

Andy Dingley wrote:
On 18 Dec, 12:04, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

8" beam / 30 brick weight trebuchet in the garage (breaks down for
car transport)

How cool is that? Wow!

I think you mean "How crude is that" 8-)
http://codesmiths.com/siege/build/photos/fire_post.jpg

It's shockingly badly made and was thrown together in an afternoon or
so. Everyone should have one.

Never mind how badly made, how does it function?

Did you ever see this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:37:44 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Jules wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:32:56 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice)
the sleigh was built on Tuesday.

Good stuff! I'm messing around making model siege weapons at the mo...

Wow! I'm into that!

I bought a kit Trebuchet a while ago, about 8" high.

Which kit, JOOI? I was just looking at a few the other week.

My boy's got a science project thing coming up at school and is doing
stuff with catapults (seeing how varying the throwing arm affects the
distance of the projectile or somesuch), so he wanted to buy a kit. But
then there's no fun in that for me ;-)

I'd love to build a bigger one.

There's nothing but fields and trees behind our house for miles. If any
telegraph poles ever fall into my lap... :-) Ever seen the "full-size"
one at Warwick castle? Pretty impressive.

Got any pics?

I'll see what I can do when I'm nearer finishing - I was just
prototyping yesterday and trying to see which of the rope (for the onager)
I had handy was workable. It's only going to be about 5" high and 10"
long, but seems to be able to deliver a heck of a kick even then (I
wouldn't fancy getting a finger in the way of the arm!)

I'm keeping it pretty simple (the frame's all 1/2"x1/2" stock) because I
want to take it to bits afterwards and copy the parts so I can make a
'kit' that the lad can then build - but I'm very tempted to make a more
"period" (and slightly larger, maybe 12" high) one afterwards.

cheers

Jules

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:48:19 -0800, Andy Dingley wrote:
I've also been known to make tiny onagers (12" arm)
http://jarkman.co.uk/catalog/random/onager.htm

That's the sort of thing I'm aiming at (albeit simpler - see other post).
I've got no padding on the prototype's cross-bar at the moment and the
arm's making a heck of a dent in it.

I like the ratchet mechanism on the winding drum :-) The winding drum
and trigger's the next thing I need to mess with - will have to see what I
have in my junk pile.

Oh, I found there's currently a lot of lateral movement in the arm on mine
- as much as 1/2" either way against the cross-bar. I've only got a bit of
3/8"x3/8" square stock in there right now though which will get swapped
for round, and I think that might improve things a lot (the torsion rope
will 'cup' it a little better and hopefully keep it more in line)

As per other post I'd like to build a better one afterwards - a little
larger and more in-keeping with an original like yours (rather than
something that looks "kit-like"). That probably means wooden pegs and
tied joints for the frame and all the rest of it...

Shame there's no "siege weapon olympics" :-)

cheers

Jules

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:03:40 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:
Google's picasa (picasaweb.google.com) works well for me

IIRC that needs a plugin (flash) to display a still image that 99.9%
of known browsers can display natively.

Eek - I'll have to look into that. I can't stand Flash stuff (and even
worse I can't get anything past Flash v9 on this box without some major OS
tweaks, and a lot of stuff insists o v10 these days before it'll
work, even when it's not doing anything fancy)

I think I was looking specifically for an online photo album type thing a
few years ago, but I wanted one that supported captions below the
thumbnail photos, and there really wasn't a lot to choose from - at the
time Picasa seemed like the best of the bunch (maybe flickr didn't do
captions on the thumbnail page at the time and that was why I ruled it
out, dunno for sure though)

cheers

Jules

Jules wrote:

There's nothing but fields and trees behind our house for miles. If any
telegraph poles ever fall into my lap... :-) Ever seen the "full-size"
one at Warwick castle? Pretty impressive.


There's one on Loch Ness at Urquhart Castle too.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l1...hartcastle.jpg

(talking of different photo sites!)

Andy

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:12:09 +0000, Andy Champ wrote:
Jules wrote:

There's nothing but fields and trees behind our house for miles. If any
telegraph poles ever fall into my lap... :-) Ever seen the "full-size"
one at Warwick castle? Pretty impressive.

There's one on Loch Ness at Urquhart Castle too.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l1...hartcastle.jpg

Nice! That's a little bit smaller than Warwick's:

http://www.patooie.com/temp/warwick_trebuchet.jpg

.... but also a little bit more portable! (I'm actually not sure how
faithful Warwick's is to any historical design - whilst I know they had
engineering cranes back in the day with "hamster-wheel" winding gear like
that, I don't know if that was true of trebuchets)

cheers

Jules

In message , John
Rumm writes
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Owain
saying something like:

On 17 Dec, 21:32, "The Medway Handyman" wrote:
Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice) the
sleigh was built on Tuesday.
Very nice, but you forgot the personalised number plate (SAN 7 A) and
if it's a commercial vehicle it needs no-smoking signs on it!
And if Santie's giving away any electrical goods, he'll have to take
the
old ones in exchange and for that he'll need a Waste Transport Licence.
It's for everybody's own good, you know.

unless they second hand... then he will need to PAT them...


Unless the posties are all on strike ...


--
geoff

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:08:57 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Did you ever see this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

(More of the same guy without the grating Merkinism)

Did that pre- or post-date the piano fling on Northern Exposure?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppShcRlJeZI

--
John Stumbles

A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text.
Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?