Homemade Portable Pitching Mound Plans

Steps of building a portable pitching mound step 1.

Homemade portable pitching mound plans.

I added the 4 x 8. Step 2 cut the ply wood to the right sizes. 3 2x10x8 treated. Mark one inch at the end of one of the 8 foot 2 by 10 pieces of wood.

The materials needed are. Nail one 4 foot 2 by 10 to the rear of the two sloped pieces. 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. That turned out to be the.

1 2x4x8 treated. Nail the remaining 2 by 4 in between. Cut the angle down to two. That s more than the price i built one for.

Its especially difficult not to start drawing up blueprints when you can make the item for less than the cost of shipping. Your logical side won t let you buy anything that you can make ask my wife about our home made refrigerator. That turned out to be the case when i priced portable pitching mounds. Simple steps of constructing a portable pitching mound step 1 assemble your raw materials and tools for the job.

For the base i started. I used a lot of scrap pieces to brace the 1 x 10 s probably overkill but i wanted to make sure. Homemade portable pitching mound. To start with first get your plywood which i am assuming an 8 foot ply sliced into a 2 and a 6 foot section.

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. An option is a portable pitcher s mound made from wood and astroturf. This mound can be built in just a few hours and the cost is around 125. Cut 4 off the 2 x 10 x 12 board as it will be used as the back support of the mound.

Diy pitching mound step 1. Constructing a dirt mound in the back yard is not easy and it must be constantly maintained. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100 it s a curse being an engineer. Slice one ply wood into a 2 x 6 foot section and the other one into a 10.

But then a few years later this guy brock hit me up in facebook messenger and showed me his. I decided to use a piece of 4 x 8 treated plywood as the main part of the mound. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100. These raw materials include an 8 foot ply wood ribbed nails.

Once you have the cut pieces of the ply you will have four pieces yielded of the two planks. How to build a wooden portable pitching mound create slope of mound. 1 2x10x12 treated. So as you ll see in the video i bought all of the stuff for my diy pitching mound.

Make a mark at 24 then make a mark at 3 4 5 6 7 and 8. The flat section with the rubber is 22 inches wide before it begins to taper. The dimensions of the mound are 84 x 42. 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.