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That's really fun.
The science man himself!
thanks for giving this dude the attention he deserves
Destin! Funny seeing you down here, just finished your video about extinguishing fires onboard a submarine. You and Tom are both awesome - any chance for a collab?
Collab
Supersonic baseball trebuchet?
Alternate title: "Local man launches tennis balls into next village."
*lower earth orbit
*Hohmann Transfer Orbit
International post delivery. Fast, cheap, funny! All you have to do is to spin the handle. France for weak ones, China for strong ones.
@@jm56585 *Inter-Planetary Transfer
@@richardmillhousenixon *to Venus
I feel bad for the farmer that kept getting bombarded for several hours under Medieval Siege
The sheep remember.
The flywheel coming to a near deadstop left me speechless. such a good representation of the conservation of energy
Yes! Exciting ain't it, how most of that energy was apparently transferred into the projectile?
@@MRptwrench that one unlucky bird hit by the ball will experience all the energy it has stored
Péöp/M😊 7:22 die in peace and happiness comes out next year is over for the rest in 0000000
Does that mean good energy transfer , I suspect?
@@williamstephenson2550 It represents high efficiency.
Somewhere in the distance someone is getting constantly bombarded by tennis balls
*distant screaming*
or in the distance there is a very happy doggy
@@mirthenemrys what dog there was no dog, and I never ate any dog?!
baaa!
I can just imagine his neighbours.
*CRASH*
"STANTON!"
Dude. Well done on so many levels. Not sure how I’ve never seen your channel till now but i’m glad the algorithm made the suggestion.
Thanks man! Glad you found it!
He has done a lot of great stuff
Praise the algorithm!
Same man I watch you and smarter every day all the time, funny we found him on the same day
Collab ???????? 🥺😏
Imagine, you’re making yourself a morning cup of coffee, looking out the kitchen window hoping to see birds and deer, but instead you see your neighbor building a trebuchet. Thinking to yourself, I wonder if this house can withstand a siege? Also contemplating and calculating on when to return and how long to have borrowed a weed trimmer.
you are awesome and i love this
Exactly. Also, If you decided to leave before the siege I’d advise to still make yourself that cup of coffee but make it in a portable insulated cup, with a lid on it. You might get hungry during your escape from the siege; this is where some ham and cheese sandwiches would come in handy. If there’s time you could wrap the sandwiches in tinfoil or a similar product to keep them fresh, but ONLY if there’s time.
Or you chillin' with your morning coffee and you see random tennis balls flying past and thinking your neighbour's kids are playing backyard cricket. Then you start seeing flying random objects like apples, or even smallish heavy toys and then your curiosity is piqued. And then you hear "Ok that's good but now I must just tweak the string and release a little earlier".
"What the heck is going on?"
Battle of Neighbor Field. Result: tactical Stanton victory; Neighbor's sheep startled and routed from the battlefield. Casualties: 1 pulley
people 30km away from tom: "why are here so many tennis balls?"
LMAO
Gets smashed in the face by another one whilst wondering 😂
there was an old black and white photo.. of a golf ball landing near a crowd.. because it was so clear a picture you should see the faces of the surprised spectators... wonders if google has a copy.. should I look..
@@batchint dump!
according to the laws of physics, that ball could not fly more than 627 m, having an initial speed of 80 m / s
Your videos are consistently excellent, Tom - that high speed camera was an awesome investment!
Completely agree! Yours are too!
The high speed camera is honestly the best investments I've ever made! Thanks Joe, but how do I respond to such a compliment? Your work is always awesome!!
Hey Bernard! Nice to see you here taking an chill break from space stuff!)
Is it a Chronos?
I personally use my Sony cameras with HFR (1000fps) mode simply because it is build in :P
you need one to joe! your videos are also awesome
"That is gonna kill somebody when it lands in boston."
i was thinking 'man that'd be awesome if he put a motor on this thing" right when you said "perhaps i'll put a motor on the crankshaft". can't wait for THAT video lol, thanks for the great content
Exactly my thought, it would be fun to see this supersized, more weight on the flywheel and a motor.. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
"My old trebuchet hasn't aged very well...". As a conversation-opener, that takes some beating.
I took my old trebuchet apart to get the 4x4's back. :/
"my old trebuchet"
I dont even have a new one
Super clever concept.
Tru dat
Tom Stanton, Integza, NHIL, all at the same video?
Smart youtubers are the best.
@@-NGC-6302- COLAB WHEN
Super clever lad.
I think this is one of your best videos. It's just really interesting to see how flywheels can store energy like this.
I love the way nearly all the energy is transferred from flywheel to ball. Splendid!
Not going to lie, this was a brilliant demonstration of energy transfer. Hats off to you.
love your videos. ive been working in my own tesla coil for a while now. i was wondering if you could tell me what you think of it? i have vids on my channel!
Awesome! Now add a high-powered electric motor and replace the tennis ball with a Molotov Cocktail. Siege weapon complete!
Shockingly good?
No keep hat on
say this comment on a video sponsored by brilliant
You had me at Flywheel, awesome video
Gg
The marble machine could be a trebuchet, Martin!
Stop procrastinating. Lol jk. I love your videos and I want to see you in concert already
Oh my gosh, is Martin!!!!!! I love you, man! your marble machine X is very impressive!!!!!
I love the marble machine, i semi want it. I love music and marble machines, why not both
Excellent! Really. Especially impressed by the energy transfer with the heavier projectiles.
couple general trebuchet questions: 1) are launches/launch speeds consistent? 2) can you actually "aim" a trebuchet? (i guess these questions apply both historically and for this modern rendition)
Shame nobody answeared yet so I´ll do the honors. The lauch speed of clasic weight/lever trebuche should be as consistent as the weight of the projectile. And yes, siege engeneers would spent whole lot of time doing calculations to ensure the siege trebuche would hit it´s target. You dont want to spent month building one and realising it cant even hit the castle wall (you generally want to go over the wall and land inside). But its also good to know many sieges ended before you could build trebuche since people percieved then as we percieve H-bombs now. You simply lost your will to fight
he understands quality not quantity and that’s what makes him such a great youtuber
But also has pretty good quantity
@@adamhale6672 yes
thank you guys so much ive never gotten this many likes before
Almost like Will Osman, but with higher effort videos
Matt Dumbrill never heard of will osman before
That is one wicked uppercut machine
Uff great way to loose an eye, I just wonder what he'd do when he inevitably has to go over to his neighbour asking them to get it back
Maybe you should build a hot glue trebuchet? I want to see what velocity will be enough for hot glue as you seem to be exploring this question.
"I don't even know where that went..." It's going to orbit the earth and hit you in the back!
nope it somehow hit me
Thank you for the inspiration and absolutely incredible proof of concept, Tom. Over the last six months or so, I built a scaled-up flywheel trebuchet with an arm diameter of about 16 feet. It almost works and hopefully will be competing at the Rapid City Pumpkin Festival on September 25th. I'll make an actual video of it eventually. Keep up the fantastic work on your channel!
I was really wondering how this idea scales and compares to traditional trebuchets. Given normal material strengths like steel, just how fast could you get a projectile moving? Would love to know how your attempts panned out!
Hey man! I'm from the future, from a country which has a pumpkin festival with a pumpkin trebuchet competition. I wonder how the trebuchet turned out? Did it work and do you have a video?
how did it work? any vids?
❤@@Adam-gf2fg
"maybe I need to put a motor on it"
Yes, yes you do.
No. He needs to put a BICYCLE on it. Leg power over arm power. Also a finer balance on the flywheel.
No. He needs a motor. Nobody wants to sweat.
And make an even bigger one with an eight-spoke wheel and a heavier counterweight.
2 horse compressor Motor will out-drive most fit people at 3400rpm or so, I think I have a spare one in my Shed...
@@feldamar2 He needs a motor, no way I'd be anywhere near that if it were going faster!
Seeing it almost come to a complete stop when the projectile is released is just awesome and prob one of the neatest things I’ve seen pertaining to physics.
Exactly this,.... we get taught aboubt conservation of energy, but don't really grasp how spooky it can be. Pool balls stopping when they collide with another doesn't seem so spooky, but this? Physics is cool.
The forces on that arm... Yikes...
Kiromos , right! It’s so smooth though that, it looks as if the arm didn’t notice, but when you break it down and understand what is going on, it’s unreal on so many levels the forces on it are and yet so graceful.
This is actually a commonly used method of reducing angular velocity during rocket launches.
@@Kiromos yet human arms plus tennis racket can hit a tennis ball nearly just as fast... If thats crazy then the strength of our bodies is insane!
Make it leg powered like frome a bicycle sprocket you could even keep the adjustable gearing to REALLY get it moving :D
Really great stuff! Genius interpretation of a trebuchet and look forward to seeing more!
"Playing fetch with a friends dog in another Postal code."
“I run away to stop the high speed camera” has the same energy as “I move away from the mic to take a breath”
CHOCOLATE RAIN
oh lord I haven't watched that vid in years
The cameras run out of storage space very very fast so it makes sense.
I thought I was the only one xD
I love how I knew exactly where this comment was going as soon as I read “I run away to stop the”
love it, gratz for the design and effort man!
I like the way the wheel stops when you let it go. I considered using two train wheels and axle to launch pumpkins. I was going to leave the pumpkin still while the wheels spin up to 500 rpm and use a clutch to engage the swing arm. You have an advantage spinning the ball with the flywheel since it starts with a lot of speed before swinging out on the string.
I love the part where you try to drain the flywheel off all of its energy.
Yea, thats awesom to see!
looks a bit surreal.
Feels like the way he is going at it is flawed though.. Won't simply increasing the mass have diminishing returns and never truly siphon it all?
It’s like watching yo yo despin weights release on a rotating body. It’s almost un-natural, I believe the physics but at the same time my brain says no way.
Could you imagine launching a tennis ball several kilometers hearing a tennis racket and being domed by an even faster tennis ball XD
Then you hear the Wii Sports announcer say "Nice Throw!"
@@ENCHANTMEN_ I can't stop laughing at this
Tfw it flies right through the racket
Ball flew right to Stuff made here, it seems
*Roger Federer just walking down the street, sees a tennis ball come out of the Heavens, pulls a tennis racket out of nowhere and just CRAAACKS it right back*
*gets beaned in the head by the return*
"DOG, AGAIN!? HOW DOES HE ALWAYS RETURN IT!?? HE'S NOT EVEN FROM THIS COUNTRY."
i love your explanations. keep the good work tom
Fantastic project, communication of physics, editing, camera quality. Awesome.
"I run away to stop the highspeed camera" has the same energy as "I move away from the mic to breathe in"
Dude that was what I immediately thought about when I read that text lmao
"I run away to catch that ball, cause I'm Flash".
I mean, high speed cameras have a limited buffer, they only capture about the last 5 seconds of video. Depending on settings and such. So he probably has to run to catch the shot.
Amazing ref
🍫 🌧️
*heard intruder downstairs*
“Honey get me my trebuchet”
Awesome! Now add a high-powered electric motor and replace the tennis ball with a Molotov Cocktail. Siege weapon complete!
@@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593 This is how we kill Tigers in medieval times
That is amazing mate. Great job! Really fun to watch.
I love the noise it makes. It just sounds rapid the whip.
Imagine being this guy’s neighbor and wondering where your dog is getting so many tennis balls
Underrated comment
pretty sure it the neighbour from the other city then
imagin this guy living the other SIDE of the town and wondering your dog is getting so many tennis ball
@@krizsanbence6510 imagine there being a game of tennis going on on the other side of the town and random tennis balls keep appearing on the field
@@krizsanbence6510 It can be a form of communication, like attaching notes to pigeons.
Neighbors be like: “WHY IS A TENNIS BALL EMBEDDED IN MY TREE?!”
Next the first dong in space program starts.
Neighbor: “why is there a weenier in my tree??”
all jokes aside the neighbors reported an unusually high incidence of broken windows during the production of the video.
lol
@GD Magic Gaming u cant hear a doorbell in space lo
“Local wildlife researcher gets concussion by tennis ball”
Bruh, this guys smile makes me so happy. Love these vids
Your segways are so good… kudos. Im more than happy to hear ads from you given how smooth your segways are
Can you please lend me that beast so I can throw tomatoes at a Nickelback concert?
Integza!!! How are the turbines going?
You both are an inspiration
@@ivorcelini2039 Very good Sir! Thank you for asking!
Need to launch pictures inside frames. "Take a look at this photograph!"
Whats next on your bucket list?
Quick Summary: Red-headed menace slaughters a field of sheep with some aluminum and a physics textbook.
LOL , so funny
2:49 I'd say he had it coming.
Poor sheeps
The balls and apples launched at so high speed is like a bullet and can hit a squirrel, a sheep, any animal or even a person too.
This guy has no thinked about animal or human safety.
I reported it by clicking on the appropriate UA-cam button (3 dots menu, then "Report", then "Harmful or dagerous acts").
@@AndreaMinosu Thanks Andrea, I reported your comment on the appropriate UA-cam button (3 dots menu, then "Report", then "Unwanted content"). I am SURE that he is not just launching tennis balls at a child's playground as has thought about this issue before starting.
Using the slots in the frame to help adjust the belt tension was an absolute genius move.
Brilliant engineering and machining!
Burglar: sneaks into a shed full of cnc and other expensive machinery.
"jackpot! What is that sound?"
*trebuchet revving up*
Trebuchet goes brrrt.
LLOOLLLLLLLL
Crouched in the corner Tom laughs maniacally, yet somehow also in excitement, rapidly winding up his flywheels and running calculations on his Casio to mathematically impact you with some serious Joules.
@@braytonlarson1860 and he aims it JUST RIGHT to hit the male intruder in the crotch. Thats right. he hits the guy's jewels with some seirous Joules.
@@temseti0 aaah you almost brought it.. Should've been.. "And he aims it JUST RIGHT to hit the male intruder in those Joules." or.. "And he aims it JUST RIGHT to hit the male intruder in the jewels with those Joules!!" ; )
The intro: A big heavy fast-spinning metal wheel right in front of his face. "This video is sponsored by SimpliSafe"
Me: "That didn't look very safe to me"
Yeah, where is his safety tie? Kids these days, I tell you...
"SimpliSafe, do you have an insurance from a siege with a flywheel trebuchet? I gave one...good neighbour and a lawn full of tennis balls"
I was worried about the rope whipping him in the eyes or something!
But no one is going to steal it without detection while simplysafe is in the case.
User beware, this is Simply Not Safe.
Flywheel Trebuchet is sick name for a band
You guy,s go all in on these experiments and I love it,awesome vid
If only you had some old ebike motors you could stick on it.
worlds only "defense" trebuchet, for when some one builds an attack-castle next to your castle with out you noticing
"attack-castle" I think they call that a siege engine
You need to watch some T-90 for the castle wall
He only popped out to the shop to get some milk.
Haha that's nostalgia for me. I used to build my own castle near enemy bases and it would attack them. Literally an attack castle
Or you put a trebuchet on top of your keep to destroy the attackers siege engines and trebuchets.
Love all the content, Keep up the great work.
Always been fascinated in the Trebuchet. To think man came up with this so long ago. Devastating war machine in it's day. Well done.
8:45 Destin Sandlin: "Did someone just talk about accelerating baseballs?"
"What have we done?" You know damn well what you've done destin!
Destin needs to come visit Tom
And Destin needs to bring some of his baseballs!
"A crank handle" NO MOUNT A BIKE THERE
Legs are better than arms.
EDIT: You in the replies are all missing the point - this is cool because it's human-powered. If you can get more power out of the human, it will shoot further and be cooler. "Put an engine on there lmao" is no longer cool, you may as well just make a vaccuum cannon or something (which is also cool, but for very different reasons).
LIKE THAT EVERYONE THATS RARE
Nice
Yea a motor and a free casting hub
Add a lawn mover motor, and it turns into a Colin Furze video xD
Jet turbine?...
Bro, can't believe I've not seen your videos before today; especially since I'm such an avid fan of davincis mechanical innovations. Superb video: it provides entertainment, scientific data, means of invention and operation, and so much more in a manner that an average person (no in depth education or study) can comprehend. Instant subscriber
Fantastic. Did anybody else also catch the build by David Eade of his supersonic trebuchet? Really fun and even more of the engineering side. Love your channel. Scott
Next video: Breaking the sound barrier with an electric flywheel """trebuchet"""
Love it
then upscale to 200kg projectile
Breaking news. Man builds KKV launcher in his yard
@@mr.pineapple7620 dont be giving DARPA anymore ideas
@@aviator2252 yea prolly better not to do that 😅
Though flywheel powered railguns the have been considered.
@@mr.pineapple7620 DARP produces ai operated flywheel kkv trebuchet capable of firing ai guided projectiles 50km
Lets just whip up a machine that tosses tennis balls at 180 MPH. You are my kind of neighbor. Nicely fabricated and presented. Thumbs up from me.
Somewhere there is a dog controlling this man's actions, getting ready for the most intense game of fetch ever played.
Me at the intro: "That doesn't look very safe..."
Intro: "This video is sponsored by SimpliSafe!"
How did I miss this for two years? Well done video. I really liked it.
This was officially the smoothest segway to an ad ever on youtube. Hats off to you sir!
I prefer a trubuchet to Simplisafe. More fun, costs less.
You mean segue. Sounds the same, spelled different.
Wow, watching the arm just STOP because of how perfectly the energy transfer being "optimal" was really unsettling!
They actually use a similar technique to stop spinning spacecraft
I wonder if he could go just a smidge heavier and make the flywheel be rotating slightly BACKWARD after launching? That would be really weird to watch.
Great job. I love trebuchet designs.
It's amazing seeing the deceleration of the fly wheel when it transfers the energy-efficient into the projectile.
>minor adjustment to the release timing and angle
+40 mph
w h a t
Thats physics for you
99% of other DIY/tinkerer UA-camrs would have taken three times as long to make this video half as informative. Mad respect - you seem like a genuine and humble dude.
@無名賢者 if he's an engineer by trade that still doesn't make this an engineering UA-cam channel - if it were this would be like AutoCAD tutorials and MathCAD demos. Nah, this is thoroughbred YT Tinker/DIY genre and there is *nothing* inferior or lesser about that. I oughta know - I'm an engineer ;) and we're 99% just total losers, trust me, can't make a riveting second of fillm to save our lives. This guy is doing something non-engineer here.
@@bpm9295 I have to agree with you. I am not an engineer but spend lots of happy hours with lots of mechanical every week lots of wrenching fetching and humor, but never could we make a video like this. It would take 10 hours just for them to show the math lol then the hours spent with cad to get the parts then all the "Babdaids" so meney bandiads
It would have been 2 30 minute videos
Yes, it seems like a lot of UA-camrs do talk a lot, maybe they have ADHD ?
I think the ideas are fine they could be more concise
Yeah man exactly, the dude deserves respect
That's why Engineering knowledge is needed. Cheers and thanks for sharing!
I love your vids and experiments! Just brilliant!
Tom: "... but nowadays there's a more effective solution..."
Me: "GUNS?"
Tom: "... from SimpliSafe."
Me: 😞😅
I was looking for a comment like this. Thanks
Had the same thought! Expected a kJ calculation of a 8mm Parabellum bullet compared to a Trebuchet apple... Maybe next time.
Yeah, my first thought was guns too. But considering his location, I knew it couldn't be.
Isn't this the system that can be defeated with a random garage door opener?
@@marvindebot3264 @LockPickingLawyer has a video demonstrating that.
Seeing the flywheel almost stop was really impressive. Definitely a bit of physics that doesn't look intuitive straight away.
The weird part is that the whole thing doesn't shake. You could easily put a break on it to force it to a sudden stop, but in that case the whole thing would probably flip itself over, like breaking the front wheel of a bike at high speed.
@@Yora21 all that energy is carried by the projectile. It's amazing, isn't it?
@@traugdor What I am surprised by is how much energy gets transferred. The ball obviously has a lot of kinetic energy already while it's spinning around the axle, but I don't see how it "sucks" the energy from the wheel into itself. Intuitively, the ball should go in a straight line with the same energy it had before separation, and the flywheel continue spinning with the same energy it had.
@@Yora21 that's the effect of the sling section.
Amazing! Another design could be to have both a high-rev flywheel and the standard trebuchet release. The trebuchet is released, and it gains a massive thrust of energy from the flywheel. Could provide an easier way to load the trebuchet and charge the flywheel.
Great video! Motors and flywheels thats a lot of energy to be messing around with
6:18 Intense Trebuchet Warrior Face
He looks like he is experiencing severe pain...
Him standing next to a massive pole spinning fast enough to (probably) kill him is making me nervous.
Yeah his method of securing didn't look too fantastic given that if the apparatus fell laterally the arm would surely break some shit
@@mrbouncelol However the flywheel would have likely a decent amount of gyroscopic motion that would want to keep itself spinning in the same access of rotation. The faster it spins, the harder the machine is to tip over, assuming his cranking isn't rocking it back and forth.
Hah ! You said "massive pole"
yeah i was thinking for gods sake add some cement blocks to a frame at the bottom man the entire video
@@JakeShuf My main concern is the fact that if he trips over or something while spinning it up, he's kinda fucked. Big heavy spinning things scare the shit out of me.
What a great experiment!
Congratulations.
8:50 I love how smoothly you segued into this ad
There is a very happy golden retriever hiding in those woods chasing every tennis ball and really enjoying himself
The mutton counterattack was as swift as it was terrible.
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream ...... [entirely stolen form Pink Floyd: 'Sheep' / Animals album]
@@Kaptain13Gonzo Pink Floyd knew, they knew.
Vastly superior to Spinlaunch, with only modest changes and a powered drive it could provide a supersonic launch to a streamlined dart. Awesome!
Such an elegant design. No more complex then it needs to be and does what its deigned to do happily. Nothing superfluous and arbitrary. There’s something special about something that isn’t designed to be beautiful but is beautiful as a result of its necessary design elements.
Someone’s going to end up with all of their windows shattered and all their dogs satisfied
Yeah but that's somewhere in the next county, nothing to worry about.
Tom: "Maybe I need to get some baseballs and stick a motor on this thing!"
Me: *checks time left*
Me: Ahhhhh
smarter everyday colab incoming!
Wow, this is a really brilliant design. So beautifully simple in its construction. This would be right at home as some sort of Renaissance age light artillery piece.
Crazy it just disappears instantly! Fantastic engineering on this man!
I've seen this video so many times, it's so satisfying to see the flywheel stop, there's something of beautiful in seeing an almost perfect transfer of energy, like you are operating in the border of what the rules of the universe allow you to
Tom looks over the fence at the sheep with rage in his eyes.
Tom, "soon"
Tom takes out a sheep: "He disrupted the infrastructure..... attacked the food supply..."
That transition to the ad was quite good. I didn't see it coming...
Also very cool trebuchet !
Just happened to see your thumbnail and it looked interesting. Just subscribed from the United States near Chicago, Illinois, USA. Fantastic details. Excellent video structure also. to the point, with no extra video shoved in. Brilliant!
Imagine you’re breaking into this mans house, and all you hear is “now where’d I put my trebuchet?”.
"I'm warning you. I have a trebuchet, and I'm not afraid to use it."
all you hear is:
"at seven kilograms once the ball is
released it leaves a sling with a kinetic energy of 132 joules meaning the usable energy efficiency is just 31 percent"
This is about the coolest thing I've ever seen
This is one of my new favorite channels... Can't believe I only just found you!
Dude. This just gave me the best idea ever. Thank you.
Imagine being a sheep in a field then getting hit by a tennis ball going as fast as a pro tennis serve.
Would be pretty baaaad
thatPingu ha
Have you considered putting tracking devices into the trebuchet projectiles and convert that into a visualization? It would be neat to see 10 shots done and to see its accuracy/grouping.
u got 2k USD? that would be the estimate cost of your request
@@brian9829 a youtuber with 1.12M subs does
@@brian9829 $2000!?
You can get trackers for well below $50 each.
@@Sierra-Whisky are those capable of polling accurately enough and at a high enough rate for a projectile? I'd think that would require pretty expensive hardware, if it's even available given the restrictions on GPS.
@@Sierra-Whisky will it survive a trebuchet impact tho? u could even make one yourself using some microcontrollers but durability is an issue
Blown away by the commitment and skill you have
To increase velocity and distance, with only a minor modification to that rig, think fishing rod. The dynamics of casting a fishing rod is similar to the combination of a trebuchet with the stored energy of a catapult. A well made casting rod is designed to deflect and load up stored energy on the forward swing, and release that energy into the momentum of the cast weight at the end of the forward swing. The line is released precisely as the stored energy in the rod is released as it recovers to its original straight state. Casting distance is a result of not only the swing, but also the "fling" at the end of the casting cycle. A properly made 12' tournament casting rod is capable of sending a 3oz lead sinker well north of 200 yards, while towing line off of the reel behind it with far less moment energy demonstrated with that trebuchet. Ive had the line break during casts and the sinker, without the drag of line behind it, will fly several hundred yards beyond line if sight at lethal velocity. If the rigid arm on that trebuchet was replaced with a high modulus tapered carbon rod blank (or a recurve bow arm or similar) rated to deflect and load up with the weight being launched, when the ball is released, the rod will load and store energy, and release that energy rapidly just before the sling releases from the pin. The combination if the immense moment velocity of that trebuchet and the sudden rapid release of the stored energy should amount to a longer acceleration time imparted on the ball, creating higher speed and longer distance. Up the anty with an additional flywheel geared 3:1 to eliminate the momentum stall as the ball swings outward and loads the carbon rod blank, you will have a cannon on your hands.