Chris Timson Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 On ebay here. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirge Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 No, it doesn't work (so much for being an authentic replica) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Timson Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 (edited) No, it doesn't work (so much for being an authentic replica) It needs fixing, but it will work. I saw the programme on telly when they tried it out. Chris Edited October 3, 2008 by Chris Timson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirge Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Gaah I bet the originals came with a year's guarantee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 On ebay here. Sadly, I don't think I could get it through my front door! Yes; I remember the TV programme too. Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 No, it doesn't work (so much for being an authentic replica) It needs fixing, but it will work. I saw the programme on telly when they tried it out. Chris might be handy if you want to start a battle over the fence with a neighbour. lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 It could be the answer to the problem described in this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 It could be the answer to the problem described in this thread you'd have to be sure you could catch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 It could be the answer to the problem described in this thread Now I finally understand what seige engines were all about. The attacking force lobbed a few concertinas into the castle , and, within days, the defending force surrendered, unable to put up with the sound! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 It could be the answer to the problem described in this thread Now I finally understand what seige engines were all about. The attacking force lobbed a few concertinas into the castle , and, within days, the defending force surrendered, unable to put up with the sound! so maybe my scarlatti is a roman concertina? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Rogers Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 "The catapult was recreated by a team of experts, following all known records, as accurately as possible – and then successfully fired." A pedant writes: I do wish that descriptions of pre-gunpowder-period missile-launchers didn't always refer to the things being "fired". Just watch any film or TV programme that has archery in it - you can guarantee that the captain of archers will yell "Fire!!!" as soon as the enemy come into range... "Shoot" or "Loose", if you please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Irishman Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 No, it doesn't work (so much for being an authentic replica) I once saw a replica that did work! It was in a local museum in a part of Bonn, Germany, which had exhibits of local life and culture - starting, of course, with the Roman frontier outpost that later grew to a city. Their ballista was a small, more or less portable one. A sort of field artillery piece, I suppose. It was emplaced at an open window overlooking the garden, and the museum guide loaded it with a light plastic ball, and allowed my young son to loose (not fire!) the shot. So it was apparently used frequently. It really did look very Roman in its technology, and didn't have those post-Industrial-Revolition steel components that you can see in the Ebay photos. They did try it out with fist-sized stones when it was completed, and I think the guide said something about a range of 100 metres. Just as interesting in this museum was the recreation of a German working-class living-kitchen of the early 20th century. Furniture, cooking and washing utensils, dishes and cutlery - and, in a prominent position on a chair in the corner, a Konzertina! Probably a Carlsfelder. Not a replica - a real one! The guide let me try it out, and it still sounded OK. Apparently there was a time when there were more Konzertina societies than football clubs in Germany, and the Konzertina was at the centre of working-class cultural life. Happy days! Nice little museum, if you're ever in Bonn: "Heimatmuseum Bonn-Beuel", across the Rhine from the main city. Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik Müller Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 On ebay here. Chris Hmm - there have been times in my life where I wished I'd had one /Henrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Drinkwater Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 On ebay here. Chris Hmm - there have been times in my life where I wished I'd had one /Henrik Looks a bit ropey to me! Loved the Q&A section at the bottom of the listing. A rather expensive way of getting rid of mother-in-law, though. Chris PS Just think how many nice Jeffries anglos you could buy for that sort of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Just think how many nice Jeffries anglos you could buy for that sort of money. Now they would fit through my front door! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlerjoebob Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 I think the main desirable Characteristic of these siege engines is the relative ease in which they can fit though your front door. Knock knock.... fjb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 I think the main desirable Characteristic of these siege engines is the relative ease in which they can fit though your front door. Knock knock.... Who's there ..... ? Maybe if the siege engine had been branded "Jeffries", it could have been taken in as a latter day "Trojan Horse". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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