Homemade Portable Pitching Mound Plans

If you re building it for indoor use or porting it you could use non treated wood and knock.

Homemade portable pitching mound plans.

Starting at 500 with the good ones nearly double that the shipping was 125. Your logical side won t let you buy anything that you can make ask my wife about our home made refrigerator. Slice one ply wood into a 2 x 6 foot section and the other one into a 10. To start with first get your plywood which i am assuming an 8 foot ply sliced into a 2 and a 6 foot section.

Once you have the cut pieces of the ply you will have four pieces yielded of the two planks. This mound can be built in just a few hours and the cost is around 125. Step 2 cut the ply wood to the right sizes. The dimensions of the mound are 84 x 42.

Cut the angle down to two. 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. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100 it s a curse being an engineer.

That s more than the price i built one for. Homemade portable pitching mound. 1 2x10x12 treated. Make a mark at 24 then make a mark at 3 4 5 6 7 and 8.

Cut 4 off the 2 x 10 x 12 board as it will be used as the back support of the mound. I decided to use a piece of 4 x 8 treated plywood as the main part of the mound. An option is a portable pitcher s mound made from wood and astroturf. Diy pitching mound step 1.

Nail one 4 foot 2 by 10 to the rear of the two sloped pieces. These raw materials include an 8 foot ply wood ribbed nails. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100. 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.

The flat section with the rubber is 22 inches wide before it begins to taper. Simple steps of constructing a portable pitching mound step 1 assemble your raw materials and tools for the job. So as you ll see in the video i bought all of the stuff for my diy pitching mound. For the base i started.

That turned out to be the. The end with the pitching rubber is the full width of a 2x6 5 1 2 and it tapers down to 2 at the bottom. 3 2x10x8 treated. How to build a wooden portable pitching mound create slope of mound.

Nail the remaining 2 by 4 in between. That turned out to be the case when i priced portable pitching mounds. The materials needed are. I choose that height because in little league the mound is 6 above home plate.

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. Its especially difficult not to start drawing up blueprints when you can make the item for less than the cost of shipping. I used a lot of scrap pieces to brace the 1 x 10 s probably overkill but i wanted to make sure. 1 2x4x8 treated.