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  • logicmag19
    rockin' the warp'd rt ule
    • Jun 2004
    • 141

    #1

    tips for my homemade field

    I am trying to put together a field in my backyard. I have an acre of land to work with. What are some good ideas for bunkers? So far I know of these...
    -Hyperball tubes (where can i get some?)
    -50 gallon drums
    -Old doors etc.
    -Tires
    -Old garbage cans etc.

    Anyone know of any good places to get any of these items?
    Anyone have a field they made with pics?
    Ideas on how to make or setup field?
    Anything else...
  • mag88888
    ULE MAG
    • Oct 2004
    • 983

    #2
    shovels, dig with them. pile dirt and stuff.
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    • Skoad
      Registered User
      • Feb 2002
      • 3265

      #3
      head over to local Lowes or some place like that, ask them if you can have some of their pallets.

      then bust off some of the pallet boards to fill the gaps in others. then either drive a fence post or something in the ground and slip the pallet over top or nail them to trees, etc.

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      • Snap Shooter
        Speed Kills (others)
        • May 2004
        • 258

        #4
        Phone and cable companies will sometimes give you their empty giant spools that they wrap cable on. Corrugated pipe is expensive to purchase and hard to get people to part with. Grocery stores like Foodlion, Shop-N-Save, Kroger, and even Wal-Mart get the solid plastic pallets (Leggo Feilds are made out of these) they stack them out back (ask before taking them though ) Food processing, especially juice making plants will give or sell you the 50 gallon plastic drums. I just replaced all of the cheap luan doors in my house (14 of them) and we wrapped them in cheap blue plastic tarps so they would last out doors longer, they make great bunkers.
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        • master_alexander
          im a gun pimp :D
          • Sep 2004
          • 2462

          #5
          invest in a chronograph...

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          • zazzoo
            Registered User

            • Jan 2005
            • 843

            #6
            do what skoad said i used to have those they worked
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            • gc82000
              LNIB just a few scratches
              • Mar 2004
              • 1346

              #7
              Check your local feilds and see if they can give you some old field netting. I have some friends who did this in their ranch and they have all net bunkers. They are hung really loose and have like three layers on o them so as not to have balls break on them. it is pretty cool but hard to bunker ppl.
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              • FireITup14
                Barney, Tonight we shower!
                • Jul 2004
                • 434

                #8
                couches, random peices of lawn furnature

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                • FreakBaller12
                  e-tough

                  • May 2003
                  • 3663

                  #9
                  pallets, barrels, tires and trees are what consist of my home made field.
                  I knew not what I did but am now edumacated

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                  • Athius
                    Registered User
                    • Apr 2003
                    • 533

                    #10
                    Originally posted by logicmag19
                    -Hyperball tubes (where can i get some?)

                    Believe it or not hypertubes are expensive. What u could do is go to a very big construction site and ask if they could give u the hyper tubes pieces that they throw out or just go to the trash of the construction site and get them.

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                    • SpitFire1299
                      :P
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 1765

                      #11
                      Tires are easy to get.. lol. If you know a big auto place they would love to give you some.

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                      • Snorkie
                        Snorkie Talk Man
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 45

                        #12
                        me and my friends have a field in a open field by my friends house. as of now we use plywood bunkers that we took when they were constucting his neighborhood. However in the latest PB2Xtremes there is a product called balliztics bunkers. After seeing these bunkers we thought of building our own. We took a trip down to lowes and found 10 feet of PVC pipe for under a buck and all the fittings we needed for dirt cheap. We just constucted our first bunker yesterday it is a stand up and we made it 7 ft high 3 ft wide and 2ft deep. Right now we only have the frame up but it only cost us $10 for the pipe and fittings. We are planning on streching painters plastic losley over the frame so paint will bounce off of it instead of break. we have designed four different types of bunkers, a stand, a low lay down for the snake, a baseball plate, and a small brick. we are planning on making four of each, so far we have calculated that the price for all 16 bunker frames will be about $124 and we will be splitting this cost at least 6 ways. We dont know how much painters plastic we will need but it is cheap at only 2 dollars for sheet big enough to cover at least one bunker. So we are estimating the cost of the entire 16 bunkers to be under 200 dollars which is much better than the 2000 for the balliztics field or 3000 for an airball field. We will hopfully have the entire field built by next week and ready for playing next weekend. I will let you know how it goes when we are done if you are interested. I will try to take pictures of it when we are done PM me later if you want the pics.

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                        • Enemy
                          aKa PROZAC
                          • Aug 2003
                          • 1245

                          #13
                          pallets work very well but some places reuse them so ask before you take!! Cable companies trash their cables after just one use so they are always happy to get rid of a few they will even sometimes drive a truck out to where you need em and the drivers will do doughnuts utill they get red of their load!! fun to watch

                          other than that you can make bunkers out of plywood and 2x4s and constuction companies have alot of unusable excess that they will give to you!!
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                          • MadPSIence
                            Innovation 101
                            • Mar 2005
                            • 969

                            #14
                            maybe some elevated terrain ... might add fun to it.

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                            • afultz075
                              Registered User
                              • May 2004
                              • 779

                              #15
                              Be careful with using tires, there is a very good chance that they will collect water on the inside and be a breeding ground for mosquitoes during the summer.

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