Bringing Wood Across the Border

[pilleya]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

What's stopping you from just buying the lumber once you enter the US. I know the exchange rate is terrible but it's probably not worth the hassle to save a few dollars.

That's a good suggestion, but it will most likely be easier for them to build the robot add-on at their shop/home, rather than have the inconvenience of having to do it at the event with limited time and tools.

We did that with our robot cart, we didn't have enough weight in our crate as we were already at 400lbs( extra shipping is crazy expensive), with our pit and robot. Crates have to be stronger( thus heavier) for sending overseas, because they can get put on their side. so we just bought some extrusion and some lumber and built one in the carpark of our hotel before the Western Canada Regional and just put in our crate for transport to Champs. Fedex is less stringent, for moving the 400lb crates intercontinent as it is ground freight.