The Form of Battering Ram

0.0 Abstract

The form of battering ram is a simple log of wood with a stone, iron or copper face. This siege weapons mechanics is simply suspended on ropes or carried by a band of men where the ram is swung and objectively, hit enemy castle walls. Two famous designs of the battering ram is the Testudos and the Roman ram: The Testudos was a battering ram with a roof protecting soldiers and the Roman ram was a battering ram on top of a siege tower. The manufacturing process starts off with men cutting and sanding wood to create the wooden beam, wooden ridges and wheels, then molds melted iron and tightly braid leather ropes, and then finishes with all the assortments becoming attached. The strengths of the battering ram were the direct attack the wooden beam has on the castle walls and the quick invasion that happens after the castle walls become destroyed. The flaws of the battering ram were that the ram doesn’t have enough protection for soldiers and the ram is slow and inefficient. The redesign consists of slaves working at the back of a battering ram with ropes and pullies and attacking a spiked iron head onto the face of the wooden beam. The redesign is less expensive from using less men and using slaves and is powerful from the effective swings from the spiked iron head.

1.0. Table of Contents

0.0 Abstract………………………………………………………..………………….PG1

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2.0: Product Description……………………………………..…………….………….PG3

2.1: Form

2.2 Mechanics

3.0: Design and Manufacturing…………………………………………….………….PG5

3.1: Design

3.2: Manufacturing Process

4.0 Strengths and Flaws……………………………………………………………….PG8

4.1 Strengths

4.2 Flaws

5.0 Redesign: …………………………………………………...…….……………….PG9

5.1 Description

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2.0. Product Description

2.1 Form

The battering ram, seen on Figure 1, is simply a beam of wood shaped like a log of wood. The beam is swung at poorly guarded castle walls for attackers to siege cities and populated areas. The battering ram’s size can be as small as handled by ten men. The size can also be as big as handled by hundreds of men. The battering ram can be handled by ten to battering ram designs. Usually, the battering ram has many upgrades to create the most critical impact on castle walls. Occasionally, there are wheels attached on the bottom of the ram to push to castle walls. Many modifications have battering rams regularly hung by rope or leather on sturdy wooden ridges. Even if the design has been modified, most rams have the same idea of using momentum to swing the wood and attack castle walls or gates. The materials used to make a ram is mostly wood. The battering ram regularly has an iron or copper point on ramming side of the wood to create easier cracks on the walls. Sometimes the objectives are not to only crash castle walls but, the rams also make heavy cracks for pickers to pick at the castle walls. The pickers try to hopefully weaken and destroy castle walls.

2.3 Mechanics

The battering ram, at its simplest version, is about twenty-two to thirty-three feet long. Mentioned previously, the ram has many modifications and the modifications have been historically used. During the siege of Barcelona in year 800, the Moors, Muslim inhabitants of Iberia, attacked Barcelona with a historically famous battering ram design, the Testudos. Built by the Moors, the Testudos, seen on Figure 2, was a battering ram that had a roof built on wooden frameworks. The objective of this ram’s design was to shield attackers and shield the ram. The siege weapon was named Testudos, otherwise coined as the Tortoise, because the ram’s roof resembled a turtle’s shell. The Tortoise also resembled a turtle’s head because the battering ram’s head swung in and out of the wooden roof, similar to a turtle’s head popping in and out of its shell. Moreover, the roof was