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Re: 2363 prototype pickup arm

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Originally Posted by JCharlton View Post
Looks great! Hard to tell, will you be inside the 54" cylinder with your bumpers? We were finding it's pretty restrictive.
Our first prototype (over the front bumper) exceeded the cylinder by quite a bit. This one fits the cylinder exactly with the arm horizontal (maximum extent of the arm) and is a little within the cylinder when down on the floor.

The width of the scooper matches the width of our frame, for maximum disk gathering. The length of the arm is the maximum allowable by the cylinder.

Restrictive is an understatement.
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