Homemade Portable Pitching Mound Plans

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Homemade portable pitching mound plans. Cut 4 off the 2 x 10 x 12 board as it will be used as the back support of the mound. Your logical side won t let you buy anything that you can make ask my wife about our home made refrigerator. Make a mark at 24 then make a mark at 3 4 5 6 7 and 8. Nail one 4 foot 2 by 10 to the rear of the two sloped pieces.

Step 2 cut the ply wood to the right sizes. How to build a wooden portable pitching mound create slope of mound. 1 2x10x12 treated. For the base i started.

This mound can be built in just a few hours and the cost is around 125. Constructing a dirt mound in the back yard is not easy and it must be constantly maintained. I used a lot of scrap pieces to brace the 1 x 10 s probably overkill but i wanted to make sure. These raw materials include an 8 foot ply wood ribbed nails.

I choose that height because in little league the mound is 6 above home plate. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100. The dimensions of the mound are 84 x 42. The materials needed are.

Steps of building a portable pitching mound step 1. To start with first get your plywood which i am assuming an 8 foot ply sliced into a 2 and a 6 foot section. That s more than the price i built one for. If you re building it for indoor use or porting it you could use non treated wood and knock.

Building a portable pitching mound for under 100 it s a curse being an engineer. Homemade portable pitching mound. 3 2x10x8 treated. That turned out to be the.

Nail the remaining 2 by 4 in between. Its especially difficult not to start drawing up blueprints when you can make the item for less than the cost of shipping. So as you ll see in the video i bought all of the stuff for my diy pitching mound. I had hinges wheels a rubber the wood but i never did anything with it after cutting the slope of the mound of the frame pieces.

Mark one inch at the end of one of the 8 foot 2 by 10 pieces of wood. That turned out to be the case when i priced portable pitching mounds. The flat section with the rubber is 22 inches wide before it begins to taper. The portable pitching mound requires a 1 slope for every 1 of mound so we need to lay this out on our 2 x 10 x 8 boards one at a time.

Cut the angle down to two. Slice one ply wood into a 2 x 6 foot section and the other one into a 10. Diy pitching mound step 1. I added the 4 x 8.

But then a few years later this guy brock hit me up in facebook messenger and showed me his. Once you have the cut pieces of the ply you will have four pieces yielded of the two planks. An option is a portable pitcher s mound made from wood and astroturf. Starting at 500 with the good ones nearly double that the shipping was 125.