[Wayne TenBrink]

Totes generally (but not always) land flat from our chute.

For what its worth, our chute has an HDPE base with aluminum angle for the guides. The enclosure is plywood. The height and angle are reportedly correct, but I have not personally measured/verified them. At the moment, it does not have a regulation gate/door - we are using a hand-held piece of wood. We will have a real gate soon. We plan to raise/lower our chute to see how that affects the way the tote lands.

It seems to me that the chute design puts performance right on the cusp between totes landing on end vs. flat. Small variations in chute height, base material, carpet, etc., may have a big effect on results. Has anyone done any reasearch/testing to determine what factors affect results any why? There seems to be a lot of variation between teams' results. Can we expect similar variation on the real fields?

If you have responded to this poll/thread, please describe your chute construction, etc., along with your results.

(Bottom line, don't count on totes landing consistently)