Presumably you have heard the story about the people lined up for execution and for the first people it doesn’t work and the next person is an engineer.
weylguysays
You have to supply the basket.
jrkrideausays
Oh! It is not a bird house!
Snarki, child of Lokisays
Guillotines are so 18th century and inefficient.
In these modern times, you should get a wood-chipper, widely available at reasonable prices at your local hardware store.
Pro tip: you can you it for wood also, too.
a_ray_in_dilbert_spacesays
Weylguy: “You have to supply the basket.”
Nah. Let it roll into the crowd and let them play footie with it.
EvoMonkeysays
The Swedish spelling is: Giljotin. I’m guessing that is the Ikea name for this product.
xohjoh2nsays
@6 Nope, “outdoor furniture” are named after Scandinavian islands.
If you want a nice damascus blade, I’m game. I just need a few pieces of cop-car and some Ibeams from a church that I can weld and twist and shape. It won’t be super sharp but it’ll be solid.
blfsays
The mildly deranged penguin, who is something of an expert on trébuchets, says that doesn’t look like a very effective model. Whilst the scale is hard-to-determine, it looks like, she says, a cardboard-cutout toy used by the children of nervous adults to lay siege to pillow forts. Very small payload, very short range, and probably incapable of launching incendiaries or even corpses, though she notes it does seem to appear capable of making the later if used unsupervised. She notes it appears to be gravity-assisted, but no counterweight is evident. (As others have noted, the “basket” is missing.)
(I suggest to her that perhaps it’s not a trébuchet. She suggests I go find a basket for a demonstration.)
christophsays
You know, this might get you put on an FBI watch list. : )
Check in their kitchen gadgets section — I know a modern-styled watermelon-slicer when I see one.
a_ray_in_dilbert_spacesays
I’ve been working on a design for a double-decker tumbrel–lot of folks needing transport.
davidc1says
Is it a desk top CIgar cutter ,like wot them bloated capitalist plutocrats have ?
@9 Down in deepest Shropshire a few miles away ,there is a bloke who built himself a trebucket ,the RSPCA were peeved at him because he used it to launch dead cows .
Presumably you have heard the story about the people lined up for execution and for the first people it doesn’t work and the next person is an engineer.
You have to supply the basket.
Oh! It is not a bird house!
Guillotines are so 18th century and inefficient.
In these modern times, you should get a wood-chipper, widely available at reasonable prices at your local hardware store.
Pro tip: you can you it for wood also, too.
Weylguy: “You have to supply the basket.”
Nah. Let it roll into the crowd and let them play footie with it.
The Swedish spelling is: Giljotin. I’m guessing that is the Ikea name for this product.
@6 Nope, “outdoor furniture” are named after Scandinavian islands.
If you want a nice damascus blade, I’m game. I just need a few pieces of cop-car and some Ibeams from a church that I can weld and twist and shape. It won’t be super sharp but it’ll be solid.
The mildly deranged penguin, who is something of an expert on trébuchets, says that doesn’t look like a very effective model. Whilst the scale is hard-to-determine, it looks like, she says, a cardboard-cutout toy used by the children of nervous adults to lay siege to pillow forts. Very small payload, very short range, and probably incapable of launching incendiaries or even corpses, though she notes it does seem to appear capable of making the later if used unsupervised. She notes it appears to be gravity-assisted, but no counterweight is evident. (As others have noted, the “basket” is missing.)
(I suggest to her that perhaps it’s not a trébuchet. She suggests I go find a basket for a demonstration.)
You know, this might get you put on an FBI watch list. : )
I bet Boots Riley is already on some FBI lists.
https://youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ
(The above link is the video for the song Guillotine by The Coup)
You won’t find it at Ikea, but I’m sure Roche Bobois has it in the best Loius XVI style furniture.
Check in their kitchen gadgets section — I know a modern-styled watermelon-slicer when I see one.
I’ve been working on a design for a double-decker tumbrel–lot of folks needing transport.
Is it a desk top CIgar cutter ,like wot them bloated capitalist plutocrats have ?
@9 Down in deepest Shropshire a few miles away ,there is a bloke who built himself a trebucket ,the RSPCA were peeved at him because he used it to launch dead cows .
I’ll just leave this here:
https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/1