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Re: Hopper?

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Originally Posted by PARhodes
I was just wondering how many teams are going to expand out to the 5 sq ft max for a hopper to human load. A couple of mentors from our team feel it is essential to have a hopper instead of picking up balls off the floor. Any suggestions?
Load from the floor. If your HP has nothing in the corral, not being able to load from the floor is not a good thing. It shouldn't be too hard to interface that with a hopper (famous last words ).
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