Homemade Portable Pitching Mound Plans

So as you ll see in the video i bought all of the stuff for my diy pitching mound.

Homemade portable pitching mound plans.

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. 3 2x10x8 treated. 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. Cut 4 off the 2 x 10 x 12 board as it will be used as the back support of the mound. Cut the angle down to two. These raw materials include an 8 foot ply wood ribbed nails.

Nail the remaining 2 by 4 in between. Building a portable pitching mound for under 100. 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.

If you re building it for indoor use or porting it you could use non treated wood and knock. I added the 4 x 8. This mound can be built in just a few hours and the cost is around 125. 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 it s a curse being an engineer. 1 2x4x8 treated. To start with first get your plywood which i am assuming an 8 foot ply sliced into a 2 and a 6 foot section. 1 2x10x12 treated.

But then a few years later this guy brock hit me up in facebook messenger and showed me his. Starting at 500 with the good ones nearly double that the shipping was 125. Make a mark at 24 then make a mark at 3 4 5 6 7 and 8. Simple steps of constructing a portable pitching mound step 1 assemble your raw materials and tools for the job.

Step 2 cut the ply wood to the right sizes. I choose that height because in little league the mound is 6 above home plate. For the base i started. 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.

The materials needed are. Steps of building a portable pitching mound step 1. Homemade portable pitching mound. The flat section with the rubber is 22 inches wide before it begins to taper.

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. That turned out to be the case when i priced portable pitching mounds. Constructing a dirt mound in the back yard is not easy and it must be constantly maintained.

The dimensions of the mound are 84 x 42. 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.