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How to build a Catapult
Let me start off by saying, "HAPPY NEW YEAR".
I don't know about all y'all out there but I get a little restless during holidays when yo suppose to be eating and setting on the couch I prefer to be productive. This year my heart is set on a catapult. I don't really know if that is the correct way to spell it but if not i'm sorry. Since I have received so much good information about so many things I know several ideas are out here and I hope willing to be shared.
Catapult: [my definition] a device with it"s sole purpose of moving or projecting an object from one place to another very quickly and with a janky out of the norm kinda style. Another thing they are called around here is a "punkin'chunker".
I have checked out a few and the kind that I am going to more than likely build is the one with a car front coil spring. That being attached some how to a ratchet something maybe like on my old boat trailer. I have never seen one built in quiet this manner though it has potential . . I think?.!?.
If anyone has any good advice on how to or what not to do, it will be greatly appreciated or considered at the least.
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i am planning on chunkin' pumpkins mostly but i am pretty much open to all larger produce. i have several tater guns and other than potatoes, i have learned how to shoot playdoh and something similiar to carp bait. sounds crazy but it is really fun.
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i willcheck it out either later tonight or tomorrow. i have been working on my rover, and wasn't able to get in til late and then too tired to get on computer. had a short in my winch. long story, melt down etc. a different topic for later. thanks for the infoot sounds interesting. i have never got anything to go close to a 1/3 of a mile but i have sent a tater off the back porch and it travel about 250 yards but we live down 5 mile dirt road so nothing nut a cow maybe to hit and i wouldn't try to be near them though i don't have that much info yet as to where anything i may chunk will land.
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i had no clue they could be made hydraulically. i guess i have never considered it on that level. i have seen some awesome tater guns but i appreciate the link and i am looking forward to checking it out. i am using a [retty basic design. i think it is more on the lines of beginners series. i would have done got it put together but i had some truck maintenance to attend to that was pretty time consuming. i have located all my parts that i have thought i might need so far and right after lunch tomorrow, rain or shine [ as long as it is not lightening] assembly begins! thanks again.
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i dont know of any contest right off for projecting anything but it should be huh?i do enjoy a good pow when done in allfun of course.i will post some pictures as soon as i can. i havent been able to locate your tree yet not even with my telescope. but as soon as i do locate it i will take care of that standing on the hill problem you're having with it. 
maybe we should just come up with our own chunkin contest!
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