$1000 how would you make a field?

[Berner9]

My family is buying about 10 acres and im going to build a paintball field on in. my dads a realtor and said he would help me make the field by giving me $1000 from his comission. so how would you make a field? what materails would you make it out of? i can get about 40 pallets from a store near by for free so what would you get for the field? I was think ing i could just buy 2x4's and stick on in the ground on each side of the pallets to make them stay up. also i think im going to get a nice chrono(one of those red), a scuba tank. so how would you make the field?

[Gitaroo Man]

well, use the hyper ball field stuff...i think you can get them from construction sites. also you can get those giant wheels from the electrical companies that don't want them anymore. one more thing are the plastic containers that hold soap from the car wash places i think.

[Automaggin]

make 2 fields. get some cheap *** 50 gallon drums and old crates and ****. just go to a warehouse adn be like "lemme buy some stuff" and theyll sell u cheap stuff. or u can just get those black tubes. and o yeah, another few hundred u can get an air field :)

[Berner9]

air ball field would be sweet

i did see that one air ball field in the classifieds but its out of the price range i think it was 2500 or so. also i remember some place, i think it was national paintball that had plastic bunkers that you filled with water so they stayed in place and you could combine them to gether to make them larger and make different shapes with them. but those i think were a little to much to.

[shockman]

I'm in new construction and if you have time during the week visit a new construction site. Many times the electricians in charge of setting up transformers will give you those spools for free as they are usually just piled up somewhere. It doesn't cost them anything, just buy them lunch or something.

Also we had some plastic 50 gallon jugs a few years ago on our field. We drilled some holes between them and secured them to each other with heavy duty zip ties. They held together for quite some time.

[Tron]

Get some sandbags and fill them with dirt which would be dirt cheap. =)

-Tron

[Sinnet]

why not leave the sand in the bags? lol

[Tron]

Usually you dont buy them with sand in them. Kinda heavy and sand costs money unlike the dirt around the field. They could dig trenches or small pits and use that to fill the bags.

-Tron

[FooTemps]

I don't even think you need to use that much money for a field. Just go to some sort of construction site and they usually have drums and tubes for really cheap.

[Tron]

Well he could set up a few picnic tables and tents for staging area and he said he had to buy a chrono and filling station so that costs. Maybe a couple of those simple bbqs that use charcol and are cemented into the ground would be cool.

-Tron

[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

i never was a big fan of those pallet bunkers,

I'd go with scrap wood/signs/hyperball

[Crazy]

rent a backhoe for the day and make a mounds field..

[dansim]

get you pallets, and build bunkers(try to get some plastic ones from a supermarket offer the night crew a few bucks to leave some outside) then get your chrono, tank and get one of those prebuilt sheds to put next to it or get some netting

[EsPo]

if i was in your spot.. i would buy lots and lots of hyperball stuff and make like 3 hyperball fields, cause thay are my favs. then buy a nice chrono and if you are going to make it like an organized field, you might want saftey netting.

[FooTemps]

Well, I think you can find a lot of bunker stuff like pallets and drums for really cheap because some places have so many they probably might even give them away. Then after you got all the bunker materials get an air station, large scuba tank, and a chrono because you probably would have a lot of money left to burn. Then just get a tent and a couple folding tables for rainy days... then you can charge your friends to play! lol, jk