Flutterby™! : Squirrel Launcher

As I get a few more scraps out of the shop, one of the things I wanna build for the kids (probably, actually, a whole bunch of kits for several different sets of kids) is a trebuchet. Given some options for where to put the lever and how to do the release, there's a lot of physics to be learned in mucking about with such a mechanism.

But there's also been the fantasy, at least when we lived in raccoon country, of inflicting the pests on the next county over. Here's some video of a squirrel launcher.