Could A Bent Tree Work As A Catapult In Medieval Warfare? | MythBusters

Medieval accounts describe besieging armies bending large conifer trees down to the ground, attaching a body to the trunk, and releasing it to fling the corpse over the castle wall as a form of biological warfare, and Tory, Grant and Jessi headed to a tree plantation to find out whether any of that is physically possible, first measuring how much force a Gray Pine can withstand before breaking, then loading Buster into a Douglas-fir bent with 2,400 pounds of force and releasing it toward a bouncy castle 100 feet away, because MythBusters never tests a siege weapon myth without an appropriate target at the other end, and the gap between what medieval accounts claimed and what the physics actually delivered is the most entertaining part of the entire experiment.

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