Show us your roll-off pit areas!

[Billfred]

4901's is not quite as grand, but if I ever get transported to some faraway land and have to start another team it's the model I'm going to. To go from that to transporting, just pop off and roll the banner, detach and retract the holder behind it, lift the workbench off, then lock the toolboxes shut and roll them away.

We supplemented this with two sets of plastic shelves, which go up and down with a few whacks of a mallet and store larger items (kit totes and the like) neatly. Those shelves are actually sitting in our (short) robot crate right now somewhere between Columbia and St. Louis.

We transported this pit setup, our robot, 1772's robot, 1772's (knocked-down) crate, 1772's (travel-friendly) pit structure, some extra miscellany, and two suitcases* in the back of a standard Ford E-Series cargo van, and it should fit just fine under the bus to go to St. Louis.

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By now 4451's pit setup is the stuff of legend, but I don't have good pictures on hand of their transport structure. There's a large cart (made of Bosch FMS extruded aluminum profile, natch) that holds all the panels of their pit for easy and safe transporting from their trailer to the pit, along with a few stepladders. Once they're done setting up, they roll this cart back to the trailer (I assume) until it's time to tear down. The garage was standing when we rolled back into the pits after the Orlando finals, and they beat us out of the arena. They must be doing something right.**

*Everyone complains about kids needing to use deodorant, and I'm not about to be part of the problem!

**That's understatement--I know they're doing something right!