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Ben and I built an Onager today...our first siege machine!
All told, took about 6 hours from start to finish, look at the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfKvw0BS-xM
Yay us!
Not bad, but I thought an onager was a device that utilised a heavy weight at the end of an arm to fling a weight on the other end? From what I can see there, thats a catapult or mangonel
(yes, I know that with the Greeks the definition of catapult and ballista was the other way around, but I don't want to confuse anyone)
Anyway, good shot. What was it you fired?
Heavy weight on the end of the bar = Trebuchet, IIRC...
What's with the videos of bathing cats?
Isn't an onager an ass? 
Anyway, nicely done!
Although you should have used Ditto for target practice... that would have been funner.
perhaps I should explain a little better,
the onager was roman for kicking ass
we used nothing but twine and 5/8" dowels to make it.
we designed it using a picture of an onager found on the internet.
it was our first siege engine.
Ben is 13.
a catapult is anything that throws stuff, a trebuchet is a heavyweight with an arm and very difficult to use, I built one out of cardstock and use it at work, I'll take a picture of it and post.
That's it I think, the cat bath video is funny if you can hear me saying ow as the cat digs his claws into my back and arms.
um, I like cheese.
perhaps I should explain a little better, the onager was roman for kicking ass
I'm betting that's a Callahanisim.....or apocryphal.
we used nothing but twine and 5/8" dowels to make it. we designed it using a picture of an onager found on the internet. it was our first siege engine. Ben is 13.
I think that it's a good little toy - nice work on that....
a catapult is anything that throws stuff, a trebuchet is a heavyweight with an arm and very difficult to use, I built one out of cardstock and use it at work, I'll take a picture of it and post.
I remember reading about siege engines and such back in the happy days we lived in Mesquite, prior to my parents divorcing. I was 12 or 13 years old. I could have spouted all the then-current classifications of all of them back then - just as I was able to give a 45 minute long lecture on Dinosaur classifications back in fourth grade - yes, I got an "A"...
Point being - the archaeological sorts declared different classifications at different times. What you call something varies depending on how old the book is.
..but a Trebuchet is still a B**** to load, but a big one does monsterous damage. Minas Tirith had them - and they were damn cool.
That's it I think, the cat bath video is funny if you can hear me saying ow as the cat digs his claws into my back and arms.
Are those Welders Gloves?
um, I like cheese.
Yes, we always come back to that....
;/
yes, welder's gloves, and scotch, the two absolutely necessary items if you're gonna bathe a cat
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