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Has anyone suspended their hitting net and screen. We're re-doing ours to make it a little bigger. Currently we have a metal frame built out of 1/2" square tubing. We have padded it but occasionally get a wild ricochet. This is in a barn with 16' side walls. We are considering making a square frame and hanging it from the ceiling, then hanging the netting from that. This would eliminate any hard surfaces for the ball to hit. We are wondering if anyone had taken this approach. We're also trying to figure out how to do the impact screen. We want it to be flat. The one we have now is hanging off a bar from the top and has wrinkles in it. Not a huge deal, but we want the new one to be better.
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You can pad out your frame (tubing) with foam (bumpers they are called). Or make your own with Gutter Foam from Home Depot.
As for the screen hanging, you want a bar at the bottom as well, and you want the floor to drop lower (from the screen to the back wall) so you can insert a weight into a pocket at the bottom of the screen and it will pull it down as well as protect any balls from hitting that bar/weight at the bottom of the screen. Others have built ramps where the screen is, which does the same thing, and also rolls the ball back to you for the next shot. I've considered that, but I plan on having actual putting practice cups up near my screen and if I do a ramp, it will be in the middle part of the screen only.
You should be able to find detailed posts on these ideas up here if you search hard enough... If you can't let us know.-
curious. Why do you need a bar at the bottom of the screen? and what did you mean by the floor dropping lower from the screen to back wall? Wouldnt the screen be fine just hanging with padding behind and around the screen? -
Anagn1cc - some people use a weight to pull the screen flatter and get the wrinkles out, also to keep the screen tight to the floor, so no balls get underneath it. I did like you said though and hung my screen loose, so extra down at bottom stops balls - I only have 8" from screen to back wall.
What I mean by floor dropping lower, is that you stop your turf/padding at the screen so that the screen can hang loosely (or the weighted bar can pull it) down below the level of the turf. That way balls never hit the metal/weighted bar pulling screen down and causing a ricochet that can injure anyone that hits a wormburner! Some do it that way. You can see how mine turned out on my 'Build Post' here:
(look at the last picture)
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Thanks so much! I'll keep searching the history here too!Comment
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