Building The Piano Mover From Hell. A Modern Trebuchet.

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Trebuchet, Piano, Catapult, Fling, Toss, Nerds, Junkyard, Scrapheap, Cars, No, Drivers, Dirty, On, Purpose

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Time lapse video of the building of a large Trebuchet. The machine was built for the band "dirty on purpose"'s latest rock video, "Car No Driver"

The machine was designed and built by Jeff Del Papa, founder of the engineering competition team "The New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society; The NERDS", with the assistance of B&M Fabrication of Gilbertsville PA.

Built from steel, it weighs over 2.5 tons. (counterweight represented 1.5 tons of the total). The frame is 20 feet tall, the arm tip is another 18 feet at its highest point.

This was filmed at a rate of one frame every 4 seconds (two minutes of real time for every second of video).

Contact me if you would like a similar prop build for your organization, or my team building exercises based on "Junkyard Wars"

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  • bummer

    doesnt show anything happening to a piano

    By the usurper 1174354905
    • hoho

      oh my god!

      By alyson hannigan sex 1266586707
    • You can see the actual throw

      http://www.metacafe.com/watch/466975/the_piano_mover_from_hell_a_piano_tossing_catapult/

      Would have run past 6 minutes if I included the toss. Since the toss was already up on its own, I left it off.

      By rjnerd 1175576149
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