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In 1999, we rebuilt Juggernaut to be larger, stronger, and more dangerous than before. We abandoned our traction technique and moved on to using a counterweight in a more traditional form. Juggernaut2 includes many more support triangles, a much heftier arm (build now with long two-by-sixes), a winch, and a trigger mechanism. Unlike the original, this was designed to fit into a full sized pickup instead of my little Ford Explorer. Here we are attempting to lift the original concrete counterweight (estimated at 600lbs) in the air with a fairly simple arm. Look at that bend. It broke soon. You can also see most of the old frame still in use. Next, we added more framework a bigger arm, and then created a draw-down mechanism. It's quite simple (thank goodness.) A boat winch into an 8 to 1 pulley hooked onto a slide-down cable. The sliding cable idea was taken from pictures found on the net of recreations of ancient machines. It also has the advantage of minimizing the amount of cable which is needed to draw the arm down. When the arm is up right, it doesn't take much to pull the arm a little. When more force is needed, the draw down rope slips farther out the length of the arm, increasing the leverage. And here is our 160ft toss using approximately 180 lbs of counter weight and a human-trigger. When we loaded up the counterweight to a full 550 lbs, however, we broke an eye screw holding our sliding cable! So we fixed it with a 10$ eye bolt with a 2200 lbs working load limit. Take that! The next order of business was a trigger mechanism. Since we could now draw down the 550 lbs, we needed a real trigger. This wheel trigger is described in detail for ballistas in "The Book of the Crossbow." The trigger line is looped over one tooth of the wheel while the wooden lever prevents the wheel from spinning. To fire, push down on the right side of the lever, the wheel spins, releasing the arm. We originally used a bit of clothesline for the trigger, but it stretched too much. Juggernaut2 ready to fling a milk jug. To see some more images of Juggernaut2, visit the How To build a Winch page. 1999 Punkin Chunk After all that preparation, check out my view of the 1999 Punkin Chunk which we attended. Contains images of our machine, and some competitors which I thought were interesting. Videos Google Video Service Juggernaut 2 low power testing Information: Two weeks before the 1999 Punkin Chunk we had Jug 2 together for some testing. There is only one 5 gallon bucket of rocks in the counterr weight box. 3 min - Jul 1, 2006 Google Video Service Juggernaut 2 low power testing part2 Information: More shots of Juggernaut2 2 weeks before the 1999 Punkin Chunk 48 sec - Jul 1, 2006 Google Video Service -- Juggernaut 2 - breaking it Information: You can\'t properly test your trebuchet unless you break it. Even if its 1 week before the 1999 Punkin Chunkin competition. 2 min - Jul 1, 2006 Google Video Service -- Juggernaut 2 - pull down Information: This shows how the pull down system worked on Juggernaut 2. 4 min - Jul 2, 2006 Google Video Service -- Juggernaut 2 - full power testing Information: We fixed up Juggernaut 2 after it broke and setup again for some full power testing. Now less than a week before the competition. 38 sec - Jul 2, 2006 Google Video Service -- Juggernaut 2 - end of testing Information: Got everthing right finally and we were ready to go to delaware. 1 min - Jul 2, 2006 Google Video Service -- Juggernaut 2 - arm tip view Information: Upangle shot of the pumpkin releasing out of the pouch. 20 sec - Jul 2, 2006

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