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Baby treb is a short trebuchet useful for throwing golf-balls, and Duplo blocks. It is also my first trebuchet, built by my Dad when I was in high school. Baby treb is 1.5 ft tall, with a 2.5 ft throwing arm. The weight bucket is filled with bolts I found at a roadside construction site. I'm trying to teach my son Trevor about trebuchets. Here you can see the ratchet recycled from some other mysterious device my Dad had saved in his basement. Ready to fire a dreaded Duplo block! The trigger is a bit of cut metal. The chain link is wedged between a block of wood, and the trigger point. The credit cards prevent the trigger from turning and releasing the chain loop, and flinging the Duplo block. Awwww....

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