The Grey Company Trebuchet Page

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Welcome to The Grey Company Trebuchet page. Here you'll find a lot of pictures and a few words about these amazing pieces of "leverage artillery" - strange machines referred to variously as trebuchets, traction trebuchets, perriers, petrarias, war wolves, coulliards, bricoles or even "the witch from whose head the ropes hang like hair".…

This is definitely not intended to be an in-depth study of the counter-weight trebuchet (you can find people on the web who can give you the heavy-duty mathematics.. see the Virtual Hurling page for some links). Instead, it is a simple look at a few points that would-be trebuchet builders are likely to encounter first.…

This web page is a simple pictorial history of the traction trebuchet but the are plans afoot to improve it in the near future. Thankyou to Russell Miner and John Southall of the Grey Company for all their helpful advice and encouragement.…

This is a page of Grey Company's own artillery - traction trebuchets, weight-powered trebuchets, onagers, springals, slings and bows - with photographs and descriptions of each. The Grey Company ……

The Grey Company Trebuchet Page quotes a book (Bernal Diaz, "The Conquest of New Mexico" from Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-044123-9 Translated and introduced by J M Cohen) that has a first-person accccount of Cortes's treb.…

Trebuchets are subtle and tricky things. The information above is not sufficient to enable you to make your own trebuchet. To do that you must first do the research and the place to start is the Grey Company Trebuchet Page web page in Western Australia. And here are some paper things to read: Scientific American July 1995. 'The Trebuchet' ...…

There are other quality trebuchet simulators out there, and I'll add them to this specialised links page when I can. If you know of one that you think that other trebuchet fans ……

The Grey Company Trebuchet Page is a comprehensive site with histories, explanations and plenty of pictures of the Grey Company's trebs. Ron Toms's Trebuchet.com has several great stories and is probably the best site to visit if you want to stay hip to the state of the art.…

The trebuchet was set up on an end line, facing out towards the field. We began by firing the trebuchet with no weight added to the counterweight. Our procedure for each trial was the following: 1. Place ball in pouch 2. Prepare to fire by cocking the arm and placing sling as far under and back on trebuchet as possible (like in Diagram 2). 3.…

Sadly, we did not complete the project in time, however the chance to play with Grey Company's engine only enspired us more. The following is an on going report on the results and conclusions drawn from the operation of Vlachernai's traction trebuchet.…