Having been home now for a week or two I have been reflecting on the experience at Punkin Chunkin. First, it was a fun event. I know that I wasn't very enthusiastic during the event and those feelings still stand, but having done it it was fun. Second, it hardly seems worth it. With our greatest launch of 874 ft. it hardly seems worth all of the effort to walk away in 13th place. We might be back if we can get some longer distances. I have already sent out an E-mail to our fab guys to start the dialogue for creating some new parts which should, 1. make the machine more able to handle greater weight and 2. make the arm about half the weight.
Just an aside, I just found that our slow motion mini trebuchet video on Youtube is linked to on the Wikipedia page for trebuchets. That's pretty cool.
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