![]() ![]() On a serious note, are there any guardian animals that squirrels do take seriously? I mean, they disappear whenever the Red-Tailed Hawks soar by, and I know that they are preyed upon, as I have seen, on many occasions, Red-Tailed Hawks munching on squirrel perched atop electrical poles. ![]() Here’s a really cool article over at on how to build an office supplies trebuchet.Is it bad that I want to see video of the Squirrel Electric Slide? Those little fuckers just won't leave my bean seedlings alone. You have got to check out the Catapult page over at, they’ve got all sorts of various homemade siege devices and information about this sort of stuff. If you’d be interested in building a much larger backyard catapult that you can use to launch tennis balls and full soda cans a couple hundred yards, then have a look at my article on how to build a French counterweight trebuchet. If you’re really into this sort of stuff and would like to learn how to make various potato guns and tennis ball mortars and such, check out a book called Backyard Ballistics, it’s got all that and more, very cool stuff. Just saw this and thought I’d throw it in here for you guys who are browsing this at work and can’t be bother to go out and buy supplies but you’d still like to be able to harass your coworkers with some medieval weaponry–all you need is a binder clip, rubber band, pen, and a water/soda bottle cap: Here’s what to do:Īdded Bonus: REALLY Simple Catapult Made from Office Supplies A power drill isn’t required, but it is recommended. This one’s much nicer, plus it’s historically accurate since it’s a torsion catapult which is the type of design that was used for medieval catapults. The 35 devices include catapults, slingshots, minibombs, darts, and combustion shooters. Here’s the book that they refer to in that video if you’re amongst the majority of office workers and have nothing else better to do with most of your day : Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare. Right, now that you’ve got all that stuff, here’s what to do:
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