Restoring an Overgrown Baseball Field - Crazy 1 Day Transformation
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- Baseball Field Maintenance. Restoring an Overgrown Baseball Field - Crazy 1 Day Transformation
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We mowed and renovated a forgotten over grown baseball field. including turning the infield
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Kills me that grass grows so easily in the dirt and yet you'll do all you can to get it to grow in the grass areas. Nice work. The field looked great.
Exactly
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That's what I call investing in the community. For the future. Kudos to you Sir 👏
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You guys did an awesome job cleaning that up!
Thanks, I appreciate it
I'll probably never have to work on a baseball field, but watching it done was interesting. The end result must have been very satisfying for you. There is more to this world than money. Giving of ourselves is what makes this world a better place. I commend your efforts!
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It’s one of those things when you take your kids to play youth game you don’t realize amount of work that somebody put in that field.
The best case scenario is when you have a whole group of Involved parents and volunteers that split the work
God bless you. Volunteers like you are few and far between. What you do matters and affects many. Thank you.
Having played organized amateur baseball from about 10 years old into my early 50s, I really appreciate the work you did on this field. I am always saddened to see a neglected baseball field. A dream never fulfilled was to build and maintain a top quality baseball field for use by amateur leagues.
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Part of the reason I chose baseball fields to donate my time to is that my son loves baseball so much and is currently a high school catcher.
For the last few years I maintained a local field and ran a league on it.
I actually earn my living selling portable pitching mounds that I designed
www.playerschoicemounds.com
@@RockhillfarmYT While in the Navy and stationed in Japan back in the late 80s, I played in a Japanese amateur adult baseball league. I was the only American in the league and at 6' 4" stood out both literally and figuratively. Anyway, this one field we played on had a portable pitching mound. It was made from plywood and covered with a piece of green indoor/outdoor carpet. Not particularly easy to pitch from, especially wearing spikes. Nevertheless, I have some great memories from playing ball over there.
Dude wacking the bullpen was def regretting the shorts
looks good guys! now in another week it will have to be maintained again. most people do not realize how much time is invested in keeping a baseball field looking good. it is a year round project.
Very true. I maintained one for a few years, mostly by myself.
Bravo for all your hard work and efforts to create a field for the kids.
What a shame it was ever abandoned. It as a great set up with cages and a bullpen and shade for the fans! Awesome really!
Dang Brock! You and the boys did an awesome job. That was a lot of work you guys accomplished.
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lotta work there! Looked so much better when you were done. Good job
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Heros!
Pro tip: dont drag in outward circles. This forces the materials toward the edges of the playing field, creating a small gully in the baseline areas. You wanna go back and forth like your running the bases.
Exactly right. I have learned that over time, of course when a field is this far gone aim circling it in different direction for hours
Thanks for watching and sharing a tip
Not true‼️ You want and need to drag/cut infield dirt in both directions to achieve maximum flatness. Low areas will need to be periodically re-filled around bases where a lot of players slide into bases.
That field looks super awesome. Really good work. Thank you for sharing!
What a mess, grinders work. Labor of love!
Great work, Brock. The field looks great! Looks like a nice place for some 35 and over softball leagues. :)
We have two sets of fields in town for adult softball. This one is used for 13 to 16-year-old League baseball
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Impressive for a single days work!
Love the content and channel! Great Job!
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You in fact are a hero! To all the kids and fathers who want a place for their children to play the greatest sport this country has ever know.
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@@RockhillfarmYT no, thank YOU!
Awesome work! I may have a project coming up for my non profit and this has been extremely helpful!!!
Great Job Brock, That was a lot of work you all got accomplished, The end result looks great!
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Maintaining baseball fields is cool. Does your crew do other fields like football or soccer? I guess those would be pretty straight forward
Great job
This was more interesting than an actual game of baseball.
You guys put in some hard whipping that into shape.
Yes sir
That's a lot of hard work. Thank you for doing all of that. Too bad there isn't a travel ball team nearby who could rent the field to offset some costs.
Commend you for the work and end result. More videos would be helpful. From the Cayman Islands.
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Would like to do this to my old little league field, great job Brother.
I don’t know about your area but here it’s all volunteers and it’s hard to get the time, equipment, and money to properly maintain a field
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Great job!! That makes me tired just watching. 👍
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It was a long day but rewarding
Nice work.
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Would love to see baseball maintenance videos
Wow!
It kills me to see you putting down Kentucky 31 on a ball field😂😂
I do the samething man. My little town didn't have a league for close to 15 years and the city park got over grown (baseball fields looked like cow pastures) and I took things over in 2018 and I love seen the ball field come to life. I played baseball for 18 years and never thought when my coach taught us how to properly drag a field it would come back years later.
It’s hard to find people to help maintain these fields. It’s a lot of work but it was rewarding too
@@RockhillfarmYT Yes sir. I do it for the kids, a lot of people can't believe the time I spend a week on two ball fields to keep them up compared to a paid staff down the road with a major complex.
It’s soooooo much easier to stay on top of ball fields by cutting and weeding weekly. It takes me less than 10 minutes per week to rip out the weeds out of our dirt infields, home plate, and pitchers mound using a D-Ring shaped weed hoe that I bought at an Ace Hardware Store.
When I drag the infield the rear rake collects all the weeds for me. I never spray or use any chemicals for weed control in any areas whatsoever so there is zero cancer risk for the kids who put their dirty hands in their mouths after sliding and playing in the dirt during games and practices.
It’s all about WEEKLY maintenance. Don’t skip weeks and you’ll love yourself for it in the end not to mention all the compliments complete strangers will give you on such a well maintained field.
Need to get some type of advertisement/signs on the fences from local businesses.
Where I live, a sign costs $300 to make and $100 goes to the field owner=$400 total. It’s $100 a year to keep your business sign up. If you can get 20 companies to put signs up, that would be $2,000 a year for baseball field maintenance. A food stand is also a good idea to bring in money.
Thanks for the suggestion
What kind of seed do you use?
Hey I am in the process of getting a quote together for a youth baseball field that resembles this one. If you don’t mind would you share a roundabout amount you charged to do that??? And yes I’d definitely watch maintenance videos for baseball fields. I’m the owner of KEEP IT CUT in Anna TX. I would appreciate any direction you could give me…. Thanks for posting this!
I have done a lot of work on different baseball fields. We have another video where we re leveled all the base paths and cut sod and flatten everything everything Out
I’ve always done the baseball fields for free. These are league fields and the leagues don’t have any money
5:30 poor guy I bet his legs were scraped up wearing shorts haha… i know haha
How big was the field? Was it a Majors field or a regular high school sized field?
It was a high school field
What do you call the thing being pulled by the quad
We have a flat drag and a spike drag and I think we used each of them in the video
My allergies are flaring up just watching this
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What drag is this, and can we rent one?
If you’re talking about the steel frame spike drag I have no idea.
It was already at the field when I started managing it and I thought it was homemade but it actually says John Deere on the side of it
I’m looking at getting a three point harrow from agfolks.com that I can use behind my tractor for this work
We don’t have the budget to buy specialized baseball field grooming attachments so I kind of use what I have on my farm sometimes.
If you’re getting something specialized I think Abi attachments is the way to go
It’s not an area of expertise for me I just do the best I can with what I have
You can make homemade nail drags with 2x4’s and 60 Penny nails from Lowe’s for under a hundred dollars that work excellent.
@@simpleagain1 And some concrete blocks for weight.
How much does it cost to have a field done?
He did this for free, but assume this field took close to 25 "man hours". So a professional company charges at least $75/man hour. This field probably would have cost about $1,875 to "fix". Now if they paid some local kid $50 per week to use their parents mower and tools and take a few hours per week, the field could be maintained all growing season for the same rate. The kid would make about $20/hour and the field would always look good. Leagues don't typically figure the cost of maintenance. If there are 5 teams in a league using that field as their home field and each team has just 12 players, that's 60 players. If each player paid an extra $30/year in fees, the cost is covered. Or, each player donates 2 hours per year towards maintenance time.
@@shannonp4037 thank you so much ✊🏾
When do you sleep
Usually at night😉
Seriously though, I try to stay as busy as I can
@@RockhillfarmYT that’s good that you make fields like that and still get sleep
Spoiler alert, Nobody came to play again.
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STOP RIGHT THERE‼️‼️‼️ just use a D-Ring shaped weed hoe on the pitchers mound, home plate, and edges/lips where infield dirt meets grass. It’s much faster, cleaner, more efficient, and you’re not tilling the weeds back into your infield dirt and clay mound/home plate area. You’re only removing the root systems of the unwanted weeds.
Great job
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