Don't pull-ey my leg....

That's right! Yesterday we learned about and built some basic pulley structures and systems using household items. We found a great book at the library that showed how to make a fixed pulley system, a moving pulley system, and a mutli-pulley system.

Here are some photos of our fixed pulley system.

Next we looked at using a multi-pulley system like on big sailing ships for pulling up the sails.

Here is a short video of what we did.




And finally, here is the moving pulley system that we built. Tony loved this one because it's the type of pulley system that he will get to try out when we go zip lining this summer!!!