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    Kathy Seigars of Greenfield  starts to lead the crowd in a countdown as Steve Seigars demonstates the release line.
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    Steve Seigars, creator of the Yankee Siege, explains how the trebuchet works to British podcast crew on Sunday in Greenfield. 
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    The piano is moved into place to be launched by the The Yankee Siege. 
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    Steve Seigars of Greenfield, creator of the world famous Yankee Siege trebuchet, being interviewed for the British podcast “Abandoned America.”
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    Steve Seigars giving safety instructions to his grandchildren and other helpers before a launch of the Yankee Siege. 
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    A member of the “Yankee Siege Pit Crew” delivers the soon-to-be- airborne piano. 
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    Steve Seigars checking The Yankee Siege before launch. 
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    The doomed piano awaits death by trebuchet. 
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    A flour barrel flies above The Yankee Siege. 

A crowd gathered Sunday afternoon at the site of the Yankee Siege to see Greenfield’s world champion trebuchet launch flour barrels and a piano into the old pumpkin fields at Route 31 and New Boston Road. Steve and Kathy Seigars, creators of the Yankee Siege, fired the trebuchet for a British podcast “Abandoned America.” To learn more about the show or to see the upcoming episode, please go to: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abandoned-america/id1619808235.