FTC 2011-2012 Kickoff "Bowled Over!"

[Tommy F.]

Originally Posted by aj4112b

my team's already's got an idea thats going to have a fork lift that goes at least 5 feet high we already got the basic concept down all it has to do is work. what we are going to do is we are gonna go on the ramp, stack all the crates up so they mesh which is only gonna be 3 feet, then were gonna shove the forklift under the crates, and lift it up as high as it can go. i will try to get a picture of it if it acually works.

In my head I thought of something like this, but instead of having forks go under the bottom crate of a stack, it would squeeze the crate from the sides.