A History of the Onager in Pictures - Page 1

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Birth of an Onager

My fascination with hurling things began very early. My interest in building a catapult really took off, however, when I witnessed my first Punkin Chunkin competition - "Wow!" I said,"I just gotta do that myself!" And so I set off to do some research and came up with a plan to build a torsion catapult.

The first step was to build a model - here is "Baby Onager". Cute little siege engine is'nt it? This little baby was throwing golf balls out of my back yard - about 125 feet.

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