With out prototype finished, my two friends and I went to Home Depot to buy some wood. As we walked throughout the store, all the wood looked fantastic, a little bit too fantastic. We were beginning to wonder if we were getting ahead of ourselves and wonder if we could really pull this trebuchet off. Nonetheless, we were already far into our project and was too late to turn back.
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When we were picking out wood, the wood looked even bigger than we had planned. At that moment, we realized this trebuchet was really, really going to be huge. So were bought fifty dollars worth of various wood and headed out to checkout. With three teenagers full of wood, the look was just suspicious. We received many questions from adults on what we were building. We couldn’t help but laugh a little and told them we were building a trebuchet for our project. Now it was time to go home.
Stacking the wood in my backyard, we began to cut the wood using a table saw. This was the first time I had ever used one and my friends were nervous at the whole cutting procedure. Everything went according to plan until we realized our prototype design was too complicated. The base of our trebuchet was going to be triangular but then we decided to make a square base to simplify the matter. After three hours of thinking and cutting, it was time to call it a day before the mosquitoes came out.
Next step, put the trebuchet together!
