I promise that next time I'll camp in National Forest Service dispersal camping. The rules there require a shovel (hence the auto pack entrenching tool) an axe (mine is more of a hatchet sort of axe-they'll cut you some slack on a motorcycle) and a bucket. I've always gotten by with a couple of gallon jugs of water.
NFS doesn't have any restrictions on trebuchets so long as you don't cut any living trees to make it. I do carry a couple of lengths of para cord that would probably do to lash the thing together...
It's really good to be back, brother.
I'd say you're well on the way to being able to lay seige to a castle or two. When the seige happens give me a holler, I'll help storm the drawbridge berserker style, just because I can.