Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
It is a simple thing - I have a trebuchet that throws bowling balls, so sooner or later I had to actually go 10 pin bowling!
Clearly we needed suitable targets for the pins, so the 'running knight' target was born.
This film was supposed to show the knights being obliterated, but clearly my trebuchet is misbehaving, so the quest will go on to sort it out and one day I am sure I can take down the vanguard with ease.....(just not this day).
The arm of the machine will be extended and we will start the whole process again, but whilst I struggle on with this, visiting my websites and going shopping helps and while you are there don't forget to sign up to the news letters and my running knight T shirt is available from the Merch shelf below the video.
As well as the T shirt, I will be making the "Running Knight" target available on my website directly so you will be able to buy digital artwork and posters of it, but it will take a little time for me to organise, so not quite yet......
Production replica weapons are available here https://todcutler.com
And T shirts and Merch todsworkshop.creator-spring.com
Custom pieces are available here todsworkshop.com
By the way....Although it appears I must be on some pretty fast drugs, as my editor pointed out "when you turn 5 hours of filming into 5 minutes you get pretty full on" - apologies, I may try to be calmer next time.
It is a simple thing - I have a trebuchet that throws bowling balls, so sooner or later I had to actually go 10 pin bowling!
Clearly we needed suitable targets for the pins, so the 'running knight' target was born.
This film was supposed to show the knights being obliterated, but clearly my trebuchet is misbehaving, so the quest will go on to sort it out and one day I am sure I can take down the vanguard with ease.....(just not this day).
The arm of the machine will be extended and we will start the whole process again, but whilst I struggle on with this, visiting my websites and going shopping helps and while you are there don't forget to sign up to the news letters and my running knight T shirt is available from the Merch shelf below the video.
As well as the T shirt, I will be making the "Running Knight" target available on my website directly so you will be able to buy digital artwork and posters of it, but it will take a little time for me to organise, so not quite yet......
Production replica weapons are available here https://todcutler.com
And T shirts and Merch todsworkshop.creator-spring.com
Custom pieces are available here todsworkshop.com
By the way....Although it appears I must be on some pretty fast drugs, as my editor pointed out "when you turn 5 hours of filming into 5 minutes you get pretty full on" - apologies, I may try to be calmer next time.



![Flaming Trebuchet darts!!!
Incendiary trebuchet darts were real!!!!! (or at least I believe they were).
Trebuchets were the pinnacle of siege weapons in the 13thC and 14thC but we usually think of them as shooting rocks, baskets of rocks, rotting sheep etc, but the Islamic nations also shot darts. I have tried it before but with mixed success. But I have been sent a translation of a Mameluke text where they say where the hook should be placed and that they threw inflammable mixtures attached to the darts.
Time to revisit - with very mixed and somewhat dangerous results...........
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Black Camels and Blazing Bolts: The Bolt-Projecting Trebuchet
in the Mamluk Army pp235-7
If you want to shoot bolts (nushsha_b)—some of which are filled with inflammable material (al-na_r) and sticky gums (or resins) (liza_qa_t) and others are not—from a trebuchet (manjan|q) [do as follows]. If you want that [i.e., to shoot bolts], put a hook (kulla_b)14 at the center of gravity (‘idl) of the bolt (al-nushsha_b). Flaming Trebuchet darts!!!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ohq3a5bShR0/mqdefault.jpg)






