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Re: Carpet Solutions

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Originally Posted by Hallry View Post
How big is your garage? Is there anyway you could practice in there instead? It must be a pain having to use the parking lot with weather and all.
I wish Our garage is just a standard two-car garage attached to a house adjacent to school property (the school owns all the homes along one edge of the school property to allow for future expansion).

Fortunately, with SoCal weather it's not too bad! It does get a little cold and wet (trying to practice balancing on a wet bridge last year was not fun) but I don't want to complain too much

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
I didn't know you practiced outside. That perhaps changes things. Our team also doesn't have a permanent practice field but we do have the space to set up a half field. As far as we've been a team, short of Overdrive, we've never really found the need to set up a full field. Usually the games are "simple" enough that you can get some solid practice in on just a half, or even quarter, field. The driving practice will be about the same because usually games don't warrant full field crossing.
More often than not we end up working with a half-field. Still plenty of annoyance to be had.

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
I don't know if you've seen them, but SCRRF built two rather hefty dollies specifically for handling carpet rolls some time ago. Each one has 6 casters and was built with 2x4. They're about 3' long and 23" wide, with 2 long pieces on top and 3 crossbars underneath. 6 people can load carpet onto them, working one end at a time, and move the carpet to where it needs to go--I've seen a 6-7 person crew load carpet onto a pickup truck using just their combined strength and one of the dollies (after moving the other one out of the way).
I haven't seen them - but a few 3309 members helped set up at the Fall Classic and might have gotten a glimpse. Sounds like it might be exactly what we're looking for. Do you happen to have or know of any pictures?
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