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Re: Crate Help

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
We add eyelets to the sides around the bottom and midway up the crate to use as tiedown points. Then use wide straps wrapped around the robot bag mid to top points of the robot superstructure that gets tied to the mid-level eyelets. Same around the bottom.
I think I understand the bottom, I'm not exactly sure how you tie it down in the mid. Do you wrap it around the robot and basically tighten it enough so that the robot would be hitting the wrap either way it went?

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
We reinforce the walls of the lower foot or so of the crate on the two forklift ends to better sustain incidental forklift misses. I'd suggest putting the door, especially if it's hinged, on a side the forklift won't use. We've lost a couple of doors to near misses by forklift operators over the years.
How do you reinforce the lower foot? I'm planning on building a frame and mounting the 1/2" plywood to the frame. So there's a 2x2 at the bottom of all four sides, do you recommend throwing another 12" piece of 1/2" plywood at the bottom?
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