Well, if I'm going to be making a battering ram, I need to make some sort of stand for it to rest on inbetween uses. Probably not necessary, but it's likely going to be heavy. Don't want to risk dropping something like that on your feet if you get too tired of holding it up.

[He explains, looking over the parts that Angus has brought back to him.]

The battering ram will be mostly metal after all, with wooden parts to hold it together.