After that, the great moment approached, and we made our way outside the walls to view the trebuchet. These are wonderful instruments of war, and illustrate that boys never really grow up. Toss a Small Car
Our presenter described all the awful things one might do with this very device, from flinging large stones to batter down defences to hurling beehives or bags of lime.
The great moment arrived, and the firing engineer donned his tin(foil) helmet and released the beast.
This missile, a mere 15 kilograms in weight, flew about 300 metres downrange. In its heyday, this machine would have been capable of hurling projectiles 10 times that weight.
