Team Tormentum brought Mista Ballista, our torsion machine to the chunk this year.
Mista Ballista prepares to fire a pumpkin 953 feet on Saturday. We did even better on Sunday!
Torsion Rules! Two people per arm being held up with nothing but a twisted rope bundle on one end. The power of torsion is really amazing!
Team Tormentum - Left to right: Karl Hamm, Dave Shepard, Jeff DelPapa (top), Trevor Ludlam (bottom), Kevin Cheney, Eric Ludlam
Additional Pages for Punkin Chunk 2011
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World Championship Chunk 2011
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Team Tormentum brought Mista Ballista, our torsion machine to the chunk this year.
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World Championship Chunk 2011: Mista Ballista
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Mista Ballista returned to Delaware for the 2011 Punkin Chunk. With our big success with bundle pretensioning, we opted to unwind and pretension the bundles a second time just before the contest to optimize our bundle performance.
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World Championship Chunk 2011: Torsion Class
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The torsion class had a fabulous year with multiple machines breaking 3000 ft and setting a new world record, with new distance records for every machine in the division.
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