Homemade Portable Pitching Mound Plans

Its especially difficult not to start drawing up blueprints when you can make the item for less than the cost of shipping.

Homemade portable pitching mound plans. If you re building it for indoor use or porting it you could use non treated wood and knock. 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. Your logical side won t let you buy anything that you can make ask my wife about our home made refrigerator. Steps of building a portable pitching mound step 1.

I choose that height because in little league the mound is 6 above home plate. An option is a portable pitcher s mound made from wood and astroturf. The dimensions of the mound are 84 x 42. Constructing a dirt mound in the back yard is not easy and it must be constantly maintained.

Cut the angle down to two. Simple steps of constructing a portable pitching mound step 1 assemble your raw materials and tools for the job. This mound can be built in just a few hours and the cost is around 125. That turned out to be the case when i priced portable pitching mounds.

That s more than the price i built one for. 1 2x4x8 treated. That turned out to be the. For the base i started.

The materials needed are. Make a mark at 24 then make a mark at 3 4 5 6 7 and 8. Nail the remaining 2 by 4 in between. I added the 4 x 8.

1 2x10x12 treated. Homemade portable pitching mound. Nail one 4 foot 2 by 10 to the rear of the two sloped pieces. Diy 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. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100 it s a curse being an engineer. So as you ll see in the video i bought all of the stuff for my diy pitching mound. Starting at 500 with the good ones nearly double that the shipping was 125.

Once you have the cut pieces of the ply you will have four pieces yielded of the two planks. 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. How to build a wooden portable pitching mound create slope of mound. I decided to use a piece of 4 x 8 treated plywood as the main part of the mound.

These raw materials include an 8 foot ply wood ribbed nails. I used a lot of scrap pieces to brace the 1 x 10 s probably overkill but i wanted to make sure. 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. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100.

But then a few years later this guy brock hit me up in facebook messenger and showed me his. The flat section with the rubber is 22 inches wide before it begins to taper. Mark one inch at the end of one of the 8 foot 2 by 10 pieces of wood. Slice one ply wood into a 2 x 6 foot section and the other one into a 10.