Homemade Portable Pitching Mound Plans

To start with first get your plywood which i am assuming an 8 foot ply sliced into a 2 and a 6 foot section.

Homemade portable pitching mound plans.

Once you have the cut pieces of the ply you will have four pieces yielded of the two planks. Nail the remaining 2 by 4 in between. 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. How to build a wooden portable pitching mound create slope of mound.

If you re building it for indoor use or porting it you could use non treated wood and knock. Slice one ply wood into a 2 x 6 foot section and the other one into a 10. Homemade portable pitching mound. The dimensions of the mound are 84 x 42.

I added the 4 x 8. That s more than the price i built one for. The flat section with the rubber is 22 inches wide before it begins to taper. That turned out to be the.

Building a portable pitching mound for under 100. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100 it s a curse being an engineer. Cut 4 off the 2 x 10 x 12 board as it will be used as the back support of the mound. Starting at 500 with the good ones nearly double that the shipping was 125.

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. 1 2x4x8 treated. That turned out to be the case when i priced portable pitching mounds.

This mound can be built in just a few hours and the cost is around 125. Mark one inch at the end of one of the 8 foot 2 by 10 pieces of wood. An option is a portable pitcher s mound made from wood and astroturf. Diy pitching mound step 1.

Constructing a dirt mound in the back yard is not easy and it must be constantly maintained. I decided to use a piece of 4 x 8 treated plywood as the main part of the 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. 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. But then a few years later this guy brock hit me up in facebook messenger and showed me his. Nail one 4 foot 2 by 10 to the rear of the two sloped pieces. 3 2x10x8 treated.

Steps of building a portable pitching mound step 1. These raw materials include an 8 foot ply wood ribbed nails. So as you ll see in the video i bought all of the stuff for my diy pitching mound. 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. 1 2x10x12 treated. I choose that height because in little league the mound is 6 above home plate. Make a mark at 24 then make a mark at 3 4 5 6 7 and 8.