Well after about a month of work, a few sheets of OSB, and some good 'ole elbow grease, we've finally finished our Sup' Ply Ball field... (yeay!)
All of the bunkers are constructed out of either 1/2" or 3/4" OSB construction plywood, except the obvious Hyperball tubes and the center piece which is made of exterior grade plywood. The best part is that all of the materials are 100% legally obtained, which are leftovers and cutoffs from when Scott (BeaverEater) had his house built last spring.
The advantage to the way we designed and built these bunkers is that they're all foldable. The doritos fold into one flat triangular piece which is about 3 inches in thickness. The Pop cans all fold into flat squares which are only about 2 inches thick (with an additional octagonal pieces used for the tops) and arr easily moveable by a single person. The large pop cans (7ft tall!) are too tall to have a top, so for support we use threaded rods going through like a diameter to strengthen the shape. When rods are put through from all sides the shape is solid and cant be deformed or tipped when leaned against, kicked or run into.
The key to the success of our bunkers is the hinges that we utalized. We were on a very very strict budget, so actual hinges were out of the question (too expesive). We were stumped for a while untill it was "big garbage day" in the neighborhood (when you can throw away couches ect.) and someone had new carpeting installed... thus throwing away rolls of the old carpet. By screwing carpet to the seems of the bunkers gave us a very sturdy yet flexable method of allowing our bunkers to be held together solid, yet folded without the worry of ripping the hinges off if they were folded the wrong way.
Overall were pretty impressed with the outcome of the field, seeing as of how it only cost us about $50 total... and well see how it works out this Thursday when we have our End of School Year game and test it out.
Untill then, here are some pictures of what the field looks like and...heh the appropriate name for such a field considering that all the shapes are the same as [Sup'Air Ball...
All considerations go to: Scott (BeaverEater) and his parents for the effort in cunstructing the bunkers and allowing us to use thier yard for the location of the field (even though we have to fold and move everything after each time we play
), Matt (Silentdeath55) for assisting in the construction (a little bit 
), Kyle (Chubbs101) for donating some OSB, and Myself, for doing a hella lot of construction work (way tooo much 
)
All of the bunkers are constructed out of either 1/2" or 3/4" OSB construction plywood, except the obvious Hyperball tubes and the center piece which is made of exterior grade plywood. The best part is that all of the materials are 100% legally obtained, which are leftovers and cutoffs from when Scott (BeaverEater) had his house built last spring.
The advantage to the way we designed and built these bunkers is that they're all foldable. The doritos fold into one flat triangular piece which is about 3 inches in thickness. The Pop cans all fold into flat squares which are only about 2 inches thick (with an additional octagonal pieces used for the tops) and arr easily moveable by a single person. The large pop cans (7ft tall!) are too tall to have a top, so for support we use threaded rods going through like a diameter to strengthen the shape. When rods are put through from all sides the shape is solid and cant be deformed or tipped when leaned against, kicked or run into.
The key to the success of our bunkers is the hinges that we utalized. We were on a very very strict budget, so actual hinges were out of the question (too expesive). We were stumped for a while untill it was "big garbage day" in the neighborhood (when you can throw away couches ect.) and someone had new carpeting installed... thus throwing away rolls of the old carpet. By screwing carpet to the seems of the bunkers gave us a very sturdy yet flexable method of allowing our bunkers to be held together solid, yet folded without the worry of ripping the hinges off if they were folded the wrong way.
Overall were pretty impressed with the outcome of the field, seeing as of how it only cost us about $50 total... and well see how it works out this Thursday when we have our End of School Year game and test it out.
Untill then, here are some pictures of what the field looks like and...heh the appropriate name for such a field considering that all the shapes are the same as [Sup'Air Ball...
All considerations go to: Scott (BeaverEater) and his parents for the effort in cunstructing the bunkers and allowing us to use thier yard for the location of the field (even though we have to fold and move everything after each time we play
), Matt (Silentdeath55) for assisting in the construction (a little bit ), Kyle (Chubbs101) for donating some OSB, and Myself, for doing a hella lot of construction work (way tooo much )
sweet!
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