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Here are a few links to some of the world's best virtual trebuchets. There are some very good computer simulations out there that allow the would-be trebuchet builder to avoid many of the worst trial-and-error pitfalls. As other machines get finished, or at least photographed, they will join the existing rogues in the gallery.

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The Artillery pages cover our traction trebuchets, counter-weight trebuchets, slings plus the little models and prototypes. This collection of pages shows photos of our experiments, successes and, yes, our many embarrassing failures. Welcome to 'The Treb Files', the nearly-complete record of Grey Company's own little Artillery Section. Grey Company's Siege Engines Grey Company's Artillery Brief notes and opinions accompany each picture. The traction trebuchet is also known as perrier, petraria and petrobole (all meaning 'rock thrower').Īs above, these pictures are not modern reconstructions but drawings made when the machines were in use. This is a page of illustrations of traction trebuchets - the human-powered siege engines that appeared before the weight-powered ones.

Visit the 'Traction Trebuchet Spotters Page' - an introduction and guide to the various parts, workings and types of historical traction trebuchets. Traction Trebuchets Traction Trebuchet Spotting We look at some of the pictures from the Grey Co Trebuchet collection of trebuchet images - hunting for clues as to how the medieval siege engineers made machines weighing tens of tonnes loose their missiles on command. This page will be expanded soon to provide the more advanced trebuchet fan with a little 'real world' refinement to the original 'Getting Started' approximations.Ī look at a bit of a mystery - how were trebuchets triggered?. a little simplified information to give you an idea of how a trebuchet works and what the various parts are for. These are not modern reconstructions but drawings made when the machines were in use. This is a page of illustrations of trebuchets from 14th to 16th century sources. I hope you enjoy it all.Ĭounter-weight Trebuchets Traction Trebuchets Grey Co's Siege Engines Simulators Historical Reconstructions Tiny Siege Engines Historical Asides Cartoons Links 'Odds and Ends'Ĭounterweight Trebuchets Historical Counterweight Trebuchet Pictures

Some of the page is devoted to providing background information into how trebuchets were used 'in anger' in times past - while other parts of the page celebrate the joy of using them today as a wonderful sporting toy. Here you'll find a lot of pictures and a few words about these amazing pieces of 'leverage artillery' - strange machines referred to variously as trebuchets, traction trebuchets, perriers, petrarias, war wolves, coulliards, bricoles or even 'the witch from whose head the ropes hang like hair'. Welcome to The Grey Company Trebuchet page. The Grey Company Trebuchet Page The Grey Company