Punkin' Chunkin'!!!

[ZeroHour]

Its probably a good drive for us in the NE CEG, but I have hopefully found some good luck!

Our physics deparment at ESU (well 3 of us and one prof) will be taking a school vehicle down to the annual punkin' chunkin' contest in Delaware! And yes trebuchet's are physics related! :laugh:

Not sure if anyone is interested, but I will be there Saturday! And would be fun to maybe meet some of the Capitol CEG guys. I have already posted in the their forum.

The long and short:
Event goes Nov 2nd - 4th ~8am to ~11PM
7 dollars to get in, 2 dollars to park
The's a bunch of pumkin related events, and of course trebuchet and air cannon mayhem!

www.punkinchunkin.com for more info!

 

[ilive4sports]

Thats pretty cool, last year in my Applied Engineering class we made a small trebuchet. It worked rather well for its size. The biggest problem we had was getting the ball to launch out of the sling(for the lack of a better word). It was a good way to end the year by launching various gym class balls in the courtyard.

 

[getsum111]

My family was just down in Rehoboth Beach last week for the Sea Witch festival. They were talking about this contest, seeing a real working trebuchet would rock.

 

[ZeroHour]

Well i'm back home after the chunk! :laugh:

It was a long day, got up @ 6 am, was like a 4 hour ride down including a stop for breakfast. Spent the whole time walking around and watching pumkins flying. Then about a 4-4 1/2 hour ride home with dinner at the Dover waffle house. :laugh:

Good day overall. But I'm beat. Standing around in a field watching air cannons and trebuchets kicked my ass. Might not have helped that it was a little cold and windy. I'll post some pictures tomrrow hopefully. I need to get the Cavy waxed and the contour situation worked out first.

 

[LUCA]

Sounds like you had a pretty good day. Although it was a long day sounds like you had fun.

Can't wait to see your pictures.

 

[Buddy Palumbo]

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[ZeroHour]

This week of school is going terrible, and I found out that I have an exam next tuesday for my stats class. on top of the retake for my phys 4 class.

I'm also pretty sure I have a linear exam next week too :blackeye:

I just finally got to look through them last night. I didn't even upload them off the camera yet.

I'll see what I can do after rewriting my philosphy paper tonight.