Batting Cage/Tunnel Setup

I'm looking into the same thing. All I know so far is that a 70-foot screen costs about $700 at Baseball Express, and from there I'm actually going to look into a bamboo framework as bamboo can be found pretty inexpensively where I am. It's light and much more 'portable' that the steel tubing.

Now I just need to find out where I can build it as our basketball-centric high school would never think of letting us put it up in the gym, and the military allows no construction of any type on the base. Hmmmmmm......what to do.

Good luck, and I'll keep an eye on your thread hoping others chip in with some good advice.

Krak use air craft cable instead.
String it between the walls and use a turn buckle to get the right tension.
Then use rings to loop thru the top of the net in onto the cable.
That way you can slide the net out of the way when not in use.
Use three cables, 2 on the sides one in the middle.
1/8 inch aircraft cable is strong enough.
good luck.
EH

EH, that's a good tip! Can that stuff be ordered online somewhere?

http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6616002781/m/7881082803

Get this item as well or make it out of 4" PVC. It works great.

Sorry Krakatoa, I didn't notice you had commented on the item in the previous thread...

Should be able to get it at a hardware store, if they have such a thing in Korea??
Look up wire rope on the net.

Here's one site.

http://www.safelandindustrial.com/App/index.asp

Wire rope Stainless steel 1/8inch.
And the have the small spring snap hooks and turnbuckle's needed for the top of the net also.

EH

Eh, I visited that site and am a bit intrigued by some of their mega-ropes:
http://www.safelandindustrial.com/App/stx.productdetail.asp?did=128
That 3/4" thickness x 300 feet for 93 bucks looks pretty good.

I doubt the AD at our school would allow anything of any kind of permanent nature attached to the walls of the gym.....but things I could tie temporarily ()and quickly) and perhaps lock down with some kind of in-line ratchet or carabiner or something might work. I really need a set-up that can go up and be taken down in 15 minutes or less.

Waiting to see if we get any more funding so I can first buy that screening at BB Express.

i bought one of these about 6 or 7 years ago.it uses 3/4 emt. fairly easy up and down, though i left it up. used it indoors for 2 years ,with rubber tips on the end. outdoors since. i even leave it up in the winter,snow caved it in one year.the down side it was great animal trap.

it worked great for us.



http://cagesplus.com/

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Down side?

Did you read the directions that came with it 20dad?

We've got one made using EMT conduit tubing that you can get at any Lowe's or Home Depot. You need a kit of connectors and, of course, the net (don't forget to get the leaded rope that weighs down the bottom edges of the net - it keeps the baseballs inside). The kit I bought online also provided the rubber bottoms so the poles don't either scratch the floor or accumulate mud (indoors or outdoors). The whole thing goes up like an erector set. Once the skeleton of the EMT conduit and connectors are assembled, the netting is thrown over the top. The flimsiness of the EMT conduit is actually a good thing as the ricochets tend to stop once they hit the pole. It takes maybe 30 minutes or so to assemble with two working on it.
Also, don't skimp on the L-screen quality, especially if you are the one standing behind it. If you use a pitching machine consider raising it on some cinder blocks so the release point closely simulates that of the release point of a pitch off a mound.