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Re: How can you pick up a hula hoop?

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Ya know, back when I was a kid and hula hoops were new on the block...A quick way to pick it up from the ground was to step on it, slide your foot back and the friction rotates it right into your hand. And you thought that was a hacky sack trick.

i used to to the same thing...so using this concept i would just take a powered wheel with a suspension system (gas spring pushing down, while the wheel is pivoted) and have a hook at the correct elevation to "catch the hoops"

with this concept you could literally drive around a field of hula hoops grabbing all of them as you drove.
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