How to Build a Travelling Frame
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All of our larger machines have been designed and built to facilitate travel to Punkin' Chunk events. This has led us to build machine frames unlike those from history. We have a few simple tricks for this.
We built our machines to use these static frames. Starting with Juggernaut, whose small triangular frames were sized to fit in the back of a ford explorer. When we built Juggernaut 2, pictured here, we created even larger static frames. Because they are static, the joints can be made sturdier via gussets than a standard bolt together system which has opportunity to skew. We found these static frames sturdy and useful enough that we continued to use both sets of frames in the Pumpkin Putter. The major drawback to making a machine in so many parts is that it takes much longer to set up and shoot stuff.
Our combination of static frames and stays keep the machine quite sturdy, even when the 'putter was off balance after launching a pumpkin.
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It is important to first figure out how much room you have when
traveling with your machine. You can then design the parts to fit
into your vehicle or trailer. We built our early machines in
different sections. Some sections (Like the triangles on the left)
were made as large as possible to fit in 
In order to make even taller frames, we needed to add in longer
stays. In this picture, they travel front to back, and attach at the
foot and top of the machine. These stays travel on the roof of our
vehicle.
To prevent a machine from falling over, it is important to make
sure that the base of the machine is long or wide enough to overcome
any overbalancing forces. In the 
Our machine