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Re: [BB] The wooden beams have started creaking

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Originally Posted by Bill's Blog
This is going to be a heavy field to set up when all is said and done. Our pallet jacks can handle up to 5,000lbs in a single load and the engineering staff tell me we’ve been pushing the jacks to their limit recently. At the moment we have an estimated 8,000lbs of polycarbonate sheets, four 1,000lb pallets of game specific steel elements, a pallet of aluminum, three 1,500lb pallets of a game specific item plus a fourth 1,000lb pallet of a different game specific item, two full pallets of gaffers tape, an entire pallet of carpet tape and multiple pallets of game pieces. None of which takes into account the existing field components we will be bolting, zip tying and otherwise attaching these items onto or the elements that have not been delivered yet.
Look at Bill's choice of words.

4x 1000lb pallets of game specific steel elements
3x 1500lb pallets of a game specific item + 1x 1000lb pallet of a different game specific item.
<multiple> pallets of game pieces

That means these heavy pallets are not the game PIECES, and there's some distinction between steel elements, and 'item'-s of which there are at least 2 unique things.

Based on the numbers, the 1500lb pallets could be a team specific item, and the 1000lb pallet could be an alliance specific item, assuming the same itemcount per pallet, which I'm fully aware is a totally unfair assumption.

4000lb of game-specific steel elements is likely to be some kind of field element. 4000/19 = 210 lbs/field. Its interesting that he specified the material as steel, since in years past, most of the field components have been aluminum. I would think that this is likely one central field element (a la 2004), or possibly 2 end-zone (a la 2006 ramps) elements, based on the weight, since anything much lighter than that is likely to be easily shoved by 150lb robots.

I'm not sure what to make of the term 'item'. We've had FIELD ELEMENTS, and GAME PIECES before, but 'item' seems to imply that its not part of the FIELD, but also not a GAME PIECE, and its not a KOP part, because those are being assembled in a separate facility.

Another thought:

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Originally Posted by Bill's Blog
None of which takes into account the existing field components we will be bolting, zip tying and otherwise attaching these items onto or the elements that have not been delivered yet.
Does this line mean that the 8000lbs of polycarb is NOT part of the ARENA which remains the same year-to-year (the alliance stations + the sidewalls + carpet)? If so, that could suggest up to 25m^2 of additional 1/4" polycarb on each field.

Last edited by Racer26 : 17-11-2011 at 16:26.
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