Yankee Siege trebuchet

Greenfield, New Hampshire, United States

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Yankee Siege is a steel and red-oak trebuchet, about 55 feet tall per Yankee magazine, built to draw customers to a farm stand in Greenfield, New Hampshire. It won Punkin' Chunkin titles and was fired for a crowd in May 2024. It stands on private farmland and is not open to visitors.

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Approximate location · 42.951° N, 71.872° W

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A medieval siege engine built to sell pumpkins became a Punkin' Chunkin champion.

Yankee Siege is a trebuchet in Greenfield, built, according to the NH Business Review in 2004, as a promotion for a farm stand. The machine and a target castle on a hill stand on the opposite side of the road. The Business Review says it was built by trial and error with parts from all manner of junk, and that it was designed to throw up to 300 pounds, so it was geared down for the 8- to 10-pound pumpkins used in competition.

Sizes vary by source. The Business Review gave 50 feet high and about 40,000 pounds. Yankee magazine in 2008 described a 55-foot steel and red-oak timber frame on 10-foot wheels, hurling a pumpkin about 600 feet toward the castle. WOKQ in 2024, citing Roadside America, gave 55 feet and 26 tons.

In November 2004 it entered the World Championship Punkin' Chunkin in Delaware for the first time and finished first of nine teams in its category, with a throw of 1,394.29 feet. By 2008, Yankee magazine reported four straight titles and a record throw of 1,702 feet in 2005.

It has not been a regular public attraction in recent years. In May 2024 the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript reported that a crowd gathered on a Sunday to watch it launch flour barrels and a piano into the old pumpkin fields, for a British podcast. WOKQ reported that month that the owner said it is not as active as it once was. The machine stands on private farmland and is not open to visitors.

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A full-size trebuchet on private farmland in Greenfield. Treat it as closed to visitors. In May 2024 a crowd watched it fire flour barrels and a piano for a podcast crew.

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Private farmland in Greenfield, New Hampshire. Not open to visitors; please do not enter the property.

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