Homemade Portable Pitching Mound Plans

Mark one inch at the end of one of the 8 foot 2 by 10 pieces of wood.

Homemade portable pitching mound plans.

These raw materials include an 8 foot ply wood ribbed nails. Step 2 cut the ply wood to the right sizes. The materials needed are. 1 2x4x8 treated.

The dimensions of the mound are 84 x 42. 3 2x10x8 treated. Steps of building a portable pitching mound step 1. The flat section with the rubber is 22 inches wide before it begins to taper.

For the base i started. I added the 4 x 8. Slice one ply wood into a 2 x 6 foot section and the other one into a 10. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100.

Simple steps of constructing a portable pitching mound step 1 assemble your raw materials and tools for the job. 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. I choose that height because in little league the mound is 6 above home plate.

But then a few years later this guy brock hit me up in facebook messenger and showed me his. That turned out to be the. 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. Your logical side won t let you buy anything that you can make ask my wife about our home made refrigerator.

Building a portable pitching mound for under 100 it s a curse being an engineer. Make a mark at 24 then make a mark at 3 4 5 6 7 and 8. That turned out to be the case when i priced portable pitching mounds. Its especially difficult not to start drawing up blueprints when you can make the item for less than the cost of shipping.

How to build a wooden portable pitching mound create slope of mound. So as you ll see in the video i bought all of the stuff for my diy pitching mound. I used a lot of scrap pieces to brace the 1 x 10 s probably overkill but i wanted to make sure. 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.

Homemade portable pitching mound. An option is a portable pitcher s mound made from wood and astroturf. 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. Constructing a dirt mound in the back yard is not easy and it must be constantly maintained.

Cut the angle down to two. Nail one 4 foot 2 by 10 to the rear of the two sloped pieces. That s more than the price i built one for. Nail the remaining 2 by 4 in between.

Starting at 500 with the good ones nearly double that the shipping was 125. If you re building it for indoor use or porting it you could use non treated wood and knock. 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.