Private Field Fun!

[shartley]

Actually, even if you use a *low end* cam, the last thing you want is to get hit. I am just afraid that any *usable* idea would limit my movement, or get in the way of *ease of use* and the shots I want to take. I think that is why you don't usually see paintball photographers using any such devices. Again, I would be willing to try something if it is shown to not be more of a hastle than a help.


Another issue......

NOTICE

Enough with the PLUGS issue please. I already explained what happened and how I ran the field today. And all the *accidents* people keep talking about was when the SAFETY was not even ON. I stated a couple times that manual checks of all markers were made when leaving the field and safeties were ON.

Do people read?

We do not walk around the house with the markers gassed up and loaded. Any time the markers have tanks on them (even when being stored) they have barrel condoms on them. We do not even let the kids TOUCH the markers unsupervised. All examples of unsafe things said so far are nowhere close to what the conditions were today, or are EVER at my house.

Today was a special situation... read my previous posts.

[boomerfoxtrot]

oh come on now... you sound like a little kid.... no harm no foul...

I was telling you a store about a friend of mine.. I read the whole list... I know that the pix are good and that most are action shots.. and that if your on a feild by yourself target shooting or what not, you don't have to wear mask or use plugs....

it just brought up the story... .. didn't mean to set a trip mine off...

[shartley]

Originally posted by boomerfoxtrot
oh come on now... you sound like a little kid.... no harm no foul...

I was telling you a store about a friend of mine.. I read the whole list... I know that the pix are good and that most are action shots.. and that if your on a feild by yourself target shooting or what not, you don't have to wear mask or use plugs....

it just brought up the story... .. didn't mean to set a trip mine off...

little kid? Please....

[boomerfoxtrot]

whatever dude.... feild looks good... give us some more pix sometime....

[Clare]

I haven't read through the posts but I just noticed that you all don't have any barrel condoms on.

lol! kidding!

/me runs for cover

Great field! Looks like lots of fun

[shartley]

[subbeh]

Originally posted by shartley
Do people read?

Yes, they just disagree. Personally, I believe that if you are in charge of the field, you are in CHARGE of the field . It's your decision what to do, and it sounds like you have thought it out and definatly gave it more than a passing thought, so I'm fine with it. At our field, we do not use barrel plugs in between games because A. nobody has condoms, and with the size of our staging tables a barrel plug flying would be more dangerous than a paintball and B. we have had many discussions about safety and we all take it seriously.

To each his own, disagreements are healthy. SHartley asks that this not be the topic of discussion anymore, and it's his thread so I'll drop it.

Now that I finally have my digital camera working I will be taking pics of our field tomorrow.

In the mean time, nice field SHartley. Never had a chance to play on a field like yours, a kind of combination of speedball and woodsball (or so it looks). Looks like loads of fun. We kind of had an area like yours to work with when we built ours, but we found a small grassy field filled with tall rasberry plants. It took us two days of mowing and chainsawing berry bushs and small trees to clear it, but we are very happy with the results. How did you go about anchoring the bunkers? This has been a big problem with us, as thunderstorms took out two or three of our bunkers. For the wooden bunkers we used stakes that went down 2 feet, we also used barrels and tires. But we made it a point to keep our field completely symmetrical, and it seems to flow well.

Congrats on the creation. Sure it was a fun project with the kids. I wish my dad played paintball

[Scooter/Cootie]

Originally posted by shartley
... here is Jay shooting behind our *Bonny & Clyde Mobile*... LOL

Gotta love the Bonny & Clyde mobile!


Field looks good, you did a great job clearing the undergrowth. From the look of the pics, some of those trees look pretty young. Any plans in the future on removing some trees and opening it up a little bit more?

Good job!

[shartley]

Originally posted by subbeh
In the mean time, nice field SHartley. Never had a chance to play on a field like yours, a kind of combination of speedball and woodsball (or so it looks). Looks like loads of fun. We kind of had an area like yours to work with when we built ours, but we found a small grassy field filled with tall rasberry plants. It took us two days of mowing and chainsawing berry bushs and small trees to clear it, but we are very happy with the results. How did you go about anchoring the bunkers? This has been a big problem with us, as thunderstorms took out two or three of our bunkers. For the wooden bunkers we used stakes that went down 2 feet, we also used barrels and tires. But we made it a point to keep our field completely symmetrical, and it seems to flow well.

Congrats on the creation. Sure it was a fun project with the kids. I wish my dad played paintball

Yes, it is a combination of woods and speedball.. sort of. I like the combination of using trees AND bunkers and walls. It saves building AND provides great shade for the field!

If you look, all of the bunkers (and walls) are anchored to trees. We will be adding more to the bunkers and adding free standing bunkers and plan to anchor them to the ground in MANY places using Swing Set Anchors. You can buy them in several forms, and we will use the ones that are flexible metal straps with holes in them and a loop at the end containing a spike. The straps can then be screwed (or nailed) into the bunkers themselves at whatever angle works best.

Originally posted by Scooter/Cootie
Gotta love the Bonny & Clyde mobile!


Field looks good, you did a great job clearing the undergrowth. From the look of the pics, some of those trees look pretty young. Any plans in the future on removing some trees and opening it up a little bit more?

Good job!

[RusskiX]

My only question is when are you going to invite us NH AO'ers and how much is the field fee?

[j.t.]

WOW! that is alot of undergrowth that was cleared! good work!

From what i saw in the pictures it looks like you guys could use some tables to put your gear on in between games. (just a suggestion)

[shartley]

RusskiX-
It would be a bit before we could open it up for anyone but close friends.... I am sure you understand. And then, there would be no field fees.

Originally posted by j.t.
WOW! that is alot of undergrowth that was cleared! good work!

From what i saw in the pictures it looks like you guys could use some tables to put your gear on in between games. (just a suggestion)

Thanks.

Yes, we do need some tables to put our gear on. Today was the field's first day of games, so we did not get to picky with setup. It only gets better from here... Tables will be coming.

[j.t.]

Can i ask HOW you cleared that? The only thing i can think of is weedwacking, and that would take a LOOONG time!

[pumpamatic]

None of the private fields I play at use that barrel plug rule that so many complain about here, and I think it should be up to the field owner. Obviously Shartley feels like he has taken proper safety measures, and knows each player well enough to not need to enforce such strict rules. It's totally his decision, it's his field. Whenever I get done with a game I turn my p/f plug and shoot in a safe direction to make sure it's clear. Everyone else does the same or puts a safety on, but most of the time our guns each find their own spot in the shade and stay there until another game starts.

Anywho, off of that topic, I created a plywood box approximately 18 inches long by 12 wide, about 6 deep with one side along the width and bottom off, and the opposite side is quarter inch plexiglass. I drilled 2 holes in each side and tied some rope handles through there. Then I found some old foam( made good bedding on camping trips) and cut it to size and lined the whole inside and the outside edges. I use my left hand on one one rope handle inside the box to steady the box and the other holding both the camera and the other rope handle. Operator still has to wear goggles, but it's great to be able to walk behind people on the field and tape them without any fear of someone shooting a thousand dollars worth of electronics. It's kind of hard to run with, but as long as the plexiglass is clean it normally focuses right past it, only once has it not when the sun caught it just right. Still there's nothing cooler than looking at the same shooting lane an actual player is on replay that night.

[shartley]

Originally posted by j.t.
Can i ask HOW you cleared that? The only thing i can think of is weedwacking, and that would take a LOOONG time!

We used a simple hand weed/brush blade (you can get them at Home Depot for $14.96):

A couple garden rakes, 3 pairs of standard Brush Loppers (similar to these):

a small Bow Saw, and a lot of elbow grease.

Nope, NO power tools. I thought of firing up my chainsaw, but thought it would be great to do it all manually (as I have said before).