cheapest field materials

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What would be the cheapest material to make a paintball field?

[Paintchucker]

What would be the cheapest material to make a paintball field?


I know all you supair/speedball players hate to hear it, but the answer is:


the WOODS ...


:dance:


But seriously, wooden palletes, 50 gallon drums, AT&T wire spools work pretty good too.

[trains are bad]

The electric company here gives away cable spools.

Pallets are cheap, and can be 'appropriated' for free quite easily.

Tires can be good if done right.

An old marina had a metric assload of old dock floats and leaky drums they gave away.

[sbpyro]

Scrapped furniture.
Don't know where you are but if it is close enough to a craigslist location you can get almost anything. Free

For example
http://boston.craigslist.org/zip/73627065.html
http://boston.craigslist.org/zip/73590157.html

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I saw somebody made a field with tarp and pvc piping. How do you do something like that?

[Link44]

I saw somebody made a field with tarp and pvc piping. How do you do something like that?

you make a frame out of the PVC pipe and then drill the tarp to the PVC frame.

idk for sure but thats what i'd do...

[slade]

the cheapest thing you can make a paintball field with is...

whatever you can find cheap!

a while ago my friends and i had a great paintball field we made ourselves in the woods (although it was sorta between a speedball and woodsball field) and we just used anything we could get free. it was in the woods behind some company that shipped stuff a lot, and they gave us pallets that we could use, so we took them apart to fill the gaps. we piled logs and used rope to wrap them, and dirt to fill any gaps. we found an old steel barrel in the woods and a section of a tree. at school we built bunkers with scrap wood. heck, i even used a sink counter that my dad pulled out of our bathroom.

:( but then the conservation commission kicked us out... :mad:

also as someone mentioned you can use spools from electric companies, or find some place willing to give away old tires.

[CKY_Alliance]

I saw somebody made a field with tarp and pvc piping. How do you do something like that?

Theres a company that actualy sell those bunkers (im sure people make them at home as well) i saw them in a magazine i guess if you need a portable field and dont mind spending the money its a pretty good idea.

[Rick-USA]

Most tarps won't stand up long to getting shot a lot.

Tires, unless you fill them in with dirt can become a pest problem. Mosquito's love the water to breed in.

Pallets are very good for building bunkers. Spools make excellent bunkers. Stacked up limbs/sticks make decent bunkers in a woods type field.

Construction sites can be a good source of cheap/free building materials. As long as you have a way to get the material. Just go up and ask to see the foreman on a job site and ask him about getting the left over materials.

[slade]

Tires, unless you fill them in with dirt can become a pest problem. Mosquito's love the water to breed in.
take a knife to the bottom tire and you wont have water in it. either that or use mosquito killers or (the enviromentalist in me is crying :( ) a bit of bleach.

i know enough to build a paintball field, my problem is getting the land to build it on :(

[coastalkid]

I made a field on my 25 by 100 lot on the side of my house once and it was great. All you need to do is go around the neighbor hood on garbage nights and look for ply wood, pallets, wheel barrows, tables or any thing kind of bulky. go to your local grocery store and ask if you can take some pallets or plastic pallets of their hands. If you live near trees go and get some branches. You can make a good field with out even buying anything. Just find junk. especially hit up scrap piles at job sights.

Hope you make a good field!!!

:shooting: :bounce: :eek:

[coastalkid]

What would be the cheapest material to make a paintball field?
dont spend any money!!!!! find it all

[tony3]

I know all you supair/speedball players hate to hear it, but the answer is:


the WOODS ...


:dance:


But seriously, wooden palletes, 50 gallon drums, AT&T wire spools work pretty good too.


Trees are expensive as hell.

[Bad_Dog]

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[Deathshadow9k]

sandbags, plain and simple. plus it gives the field a world war 2esque type of feel to it.

[jenarelJAM]

wow! gotta love that sup'ply ball. how many ppl is that for? 2? 3 at the most? thats awesome. i do have to say though that lumber costs alot, and its a LOT of work building all those structures. It gives me an idea though. my dad's in construction sorta. I think i'll talk to him about building a few things like that sometime. someone i know has a pb course in his backyard(never been there, but i hear its big) i might put some of those up there.

i think going around on trash day is your best bet. Honestly, what you could do is fill trash bags with newspapers or something else soft, then make piles of trash bags. As long as what you put in them doesn't stink up the place, it seems like a great idea for really cheap.
roll of trash bags $5
scrap paper $free
work $several hours

[Speedballer666]

Honestly, what you could do is fill trash bags with newspapers or something else soft, then make piles of trash bags. As long as what you put in them doesn't stink up the place, it seems like a great idea for really cheap.
roll of trash bags $5
scrap paper $free
work $several hours

Yea but how many streams of paintballs u think a trash bag can handle before its ripped to shreds and u got paper flying everywhere?

Pallets are good to use if u have a truck u can just go to the back of a grocery store and take them, thers usually alot of good stuff to use behind grocery stores, sometimes old display racks. OOh i just had an idea.. i wonder if you could go around to grocery stores and see if u could buy or have some old inflatable product ads for a ghetto air ball field!. That would be sweet.