Sorry. This guy (Link) beat him to it.

Yeah, there's been a couple guys like this over the years.

Speaking as a former member of the SCA, I am jealous.

Who the hell builds castles out of bricks?

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Sounds like something my dad would end up doing.

I wonder how long it will be before the scrap collectors swoop onto the jobsite and steal everything.

DeathByGeekSquad: I wonder how long it will be before the scrap collectors swoop onto the jobsite and steal everything.

Or the County Assessor's office.

Coronach: Who the hell builds castles out of bricks?

What else would you use?

Surprised that no one's complained to the city about noise and forced him to stop.

A castle is one thing, but if he tries to build a trebuchet I bet his HOA will have a fit.

MNguy

Coronach: Who the hell builds castles out of bricks?

What else would you use?


I think he meant that castles are traditionally built of stone.

That's true, of course, but I doubt Joe Average has a quarry and the necessary equipment handy to do it himself; bricks are much easier to acquire and to use.

All this talk of castles and trebuchets... sounds like its time to play some civ!

There's also the Bishop Castle outside Canon City, Colorado. I walked through that one a few months ago. That one is made out of stone.

I have tossed around the idea of building a castle for years, but then I remember that I have no idea how to do it...or any money. Perhaps someday!

Very Nice

Lots of folks do this.

This guy built his from stones on his land and discarded crap from the area (northeast of Poughkeepsie)

CarcinogenCrunchies: A castle is one thing, but if he tries to build a trebuchet I bet his HOA will have a fit.



i'm sure they have a size and color requirment, or is that like the pink flamingo of the suburban world?



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I would bet he has more than 500 hours ot this job. I wish they would have included more pic's of his work. From what they did shoe looks like this guy has skills as a bricklayer.
People like this make the World a more colorfull place.

walnuts55: People like this make the World a more colorfull place.

Or, at least, more fortified.

"This guy built his from stones on his land and discarded crap from the area (northeast of Poughkeepsie)"

That looks like discarded crap.

I respect a man with a solid zombie defense plan.

This many posts and no mention of Monty Python? People are slipping. I fully expected to read references to swamps and huge tracts of land!

Nobody expects to read references about huge tracts of land! Our chief weapon is fear and surprise. Our chief weapons are no fewer than fear, surprise and a fanatical devotion to stealing other peoples jokes in order to seem interesting and or funny!

Mofo_Jones: This many posts and no mention of Monty Python? People are slipping. I fully expected to read references to swamps and huge tracts of land!


'Lets not argue and bicker about who posted what? This is supposed to be a happy occaison'.

Tofu: I respect a man with a solid zombie defense plan.

Damn, that's just what I was thinking.

I think a castle would be the best defense against the zombie apocalypse: it's meant to withstand constant attack by unarmed thousands, the walls are high enough to prevent anyone (or anything) from climbing over them, and there's that nice big courtyard to grow your food in.

And those parapets? Add some 50 cal machine guns and you're solid gold, baby!

walnuts55 said "I would bet he has more than 500 hours ot this job."

And you'd be correct. The article says '500 hours a year'. The man is dedicated (or obsessive).

The Damned: Damn, that's just what I was thinking.

I think a castle would be the best defense against the zombie apocalypse: it's meant to withstand constant attack by unarmed thousands, the walls are high enough to prevent anyone (or anything) from climbing over them, and there's that nice big courtyard to grow your food in.

And those parapets? Add some 50 cal machine guns and you're solid gold, baby!

Intrigued, newsletter, etc.

/no 50s but I can provide an AK

The Damned
Add some 50 cal machine guns and you're solid gold, baby!

Yeah, but who can get .50 cals? For groups I'd recommend some kind of incendiary - the propane trick from Dawn of the Dead is god. For individuals, they run up to the wall and then just stand there moaning in their primitive zombie language, so you can pick them off with any old weapon. I'd recommend a very accurate rife so you save ammo - something like a mauser.

In some zombie movies, animals may become infected. If that's the case, you're screwed. But if animals aren't affected, a pack of german shepherds might actually be all the defense you need.

ergyth: All this talk of castles and trebuchets... sounds like its time to play some civ!

Remember, it's not the thing you fling...

What is with all the trebuchet love recently?

Trebuchets suck ass in almost every aspect except ease of construction. Now, a repeating Scorpion, that's farkin' hardcore.

doglover: What is with all the trebuchet love recently?

Trebuchets suck ass in almost every aspect except ease of construction. Now, a repeating Scorpion, that's farkin' hardcore.

not if you're using the barbarian mod, cos then treb's are teh shiznit.

/jus sayin.
//has no idea wtf a repeating scorpion is and google was no help.

Back when I was growing up in the 1970's in my little home town of Eunice, Louisiana there was a house that looked like a castle. And it even had a moat.

But it looked like a normal house inside. it was just a facade in the front made of wood with one layer of big gray bricks.

It still looked cool.

Not far from it was one of those "futuristic" homes from the early 1960's It looked like a big chicken coop.

I was looking up the cock goblin from Code Monkeys, and all i got was this lousy wallpaper

He forges his own bolts?

Here's to you, Mr. I-have-a-massive-schlong Castle-builder-guy.

The Sybarite: walnuts55 said "I would bet he has more than 500 hours ot this job."

And you'd be correct. The article says '500 hours a year'. The man is dedicated (or obsessive).

Well, that's only like 9.5 hours a week, or one day on the weekend.

Yet another castle: http://www.dupontcastle.com/castles/gwynn.htm

This dude is smart enough to hold a renaissance festival every weekend in May and rake in the dough from it.

skwerl: There's also the Bishop Castle outside Canon City, Colorado. I walked through that one a few months ago. That one is made out of stone.

Next time you're there talk to the guy.
He's the nicest guy in the world, but for sheer lunacy and anti-government sentiment, he'd be tough to beat.

Tofu: The Damned
Add some 50 cal machine guns and you're solid gold, baby!

Yeah, but who can get .50 cals? For groups I'd recommend some kind of incendiary - the propane trick from Dawn of the Dead is god. For individuals, they run up to the wall and then just stand there moaning in their primitive zombie language, so you can pick them off with any old weapon. I'd recommend a very accurate rife so you save ammo - something like a mauser.

In some zombie movies, animals may become infected. If that's the case, you're screwed. But if animals aren't affected, a pack of german shepherds might actually be all the defense you need.


there are two for sale at my local gun shop, one is a browning I belive the other is an AR-50, which is creepy since the gun shop shows how ghetto it is by selling gold plated desert eagels as well. last I saw the brwoning was a few grand

"Farnsworth: Damn straight! Today, the mad scientist can't get a doomsday device, tomorrow it's the mad grad student. Where will it end?

N.R.A. Man: Amen, brother. I don't go anywhere without my mutated anthrax ... [He takes a vial of the stuff out of his pocket.] ... for duck hunting."

Coronach: Who the hell builds castles out of bricks?
Many 15th-16th century castles were made of brick. Such as Herstmonceux Castle (pictured here) or Avonberg Castle in Germany.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/214208767_ef081cc31f.jpg?v=0

Castle Gwynn outside of Franklin, TN. The roof of the second tower has since been added. You can see it from SR 840, south of Nashville. A Renaissance festival is held there every year, and I met the owner of the castle there one year. He's a really nice guy and this was his lifelong dream.
/no, I didn't dress up for the festival

I have 2 neighbos wh built castles.
one is for sale in northern VT.

This one's (new window)for sale.
The fello who bult it died of CO poisoning from his generator.
The widow is selling it. It had a private air strip, too.

FTFA: Mr. Noz, a father of three, has been known to throw an occasional flaming arrow from the top of the castle into a fire pit as a celebratory gesture during birthday parties.

There are plenty of castles in the US.

I grew up near this one:

http://www.dupontcastle.com/castles/laroche.htm (new window)

That's not a castle. This is a castle...



Bamburgh castle, just up the road from where I live. Fits into the home-made castle category because it's a Victorian fantasy castle, built by the industrialist Lord Armstrong in the last 19th century. Still a hella impressive thing though. It's huuuuge.

Pocket Ninja: walnuts55: People like this make the World a more colorfull place.

Or, at least, more fortified.

Yeah, this guy is going to be well set for the zombie apocalypse.

When I was a cub scout, living in the rural wastelands outside of Cincinnati, our den went to visit some crazy old guy who had been building a castle out of rough limestone for years.

I have no doubt that he is dead now. That was in the late 70s and he was already pretty old.

It wasn't the sort of castle I would have thought of as a kid, but after visiting Ireland, and seeing Blarney and others, I think he was doing a pretty good job.

Probably gone now. Can't find anything about it online.

Lord Summerisle: That's not a castle. This is a castle...



Bamburgh castle, just up the road from where I live. Fits into the home-made castle category because it's a Victorian fantasy castle, built by the industrialist Lord Armstrong in the last 19th century. Still a hella impressive thing though. It's huuuuge.

If 19th century 'fantasy' castles fit into the category, let me present the mother of all home-made castles:



Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, built 1869-1884.

Oh, why doesn't he just buy a used one like the rest of us?

7th Son of a 7th Son: Surprised that no one's complained to the city about noise and forced him to stop.

You ever been out that way? There is a whole lot of nothing by Denair, the closest town. The central valley in California has miles and miles of crops, and then a little town here and there.

5 minutes from my house: