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Pie in the Sky

By Sam Eifling
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, November 12, 2007

Photo galleries A CORNFIELD EAST OF BRIDGEVILLE, Del. — If you did not know a machine such as the Yankee Siege existed, you would have no reason to believe it would. The 52,000-pound trebuchet made of steel and red oak traveled here, to the First State, on the bed of a tractor trailer. Its wheels, weighing more than a ton apiece, are cut from an oil drum 10 feet in diameter. Hanging above its base is a swinging counterweight freighted with several tons of railroad track. When the machin ...

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