Message Board - Cricket: Sight Screen Design
4 Aug 2009 by Shane Properjohn
Hi All
Down in AU, we are looking to build our own sight screens. Has anyone done this before? If so, wondering if anyone would be so kind to share their designs with us.
Can email at - shaneyyy@hotmail.com
Hopefully hear from you soon
Thanks
Shane
5 Aug 2009 by Kevla
would be interested to hear about this too as hopefully, this is one of our cricketforce projects for next year
kevgolightly@hotmail.com
5 Aug 2009 by GeoffP Last edited 5 Aug 2009
Hi Shane,
Here are a couple of pics of 1 of our screens. We made them three years ago in a tradional hit & miss style to let the wind through (could do with another coat of paint) for about £550 each. Basic construction of screen is tanalized decking, which the local timber merchant was selling off cheap, so it should last for years, painted 1 side only to let the wood breathe. Base is made from roof joists. They are 10'w x 12'h. You will notice a box type thing front and back. These were made so we could fill them with sand or similar to add extra weight though we've never needed to do this as the base is very wide.
Hope this is of use
Geoff
5 Aug 2009 by GeoffP Last edited 5 Aug 2009
And another.
Only slight problem with ours is the wheels.They aren't wide enough and tend to dig in when the ground is soft
5 Aug 2009 by Four Oaks
We have an exposed site and find that the screens are blown over most winters. During the latest reconstruction we made the top 4 feet or so hinged and this is 'lowered' during the winter or indeed if there is a high wind likely.
It's worked so far so we think it was a useful tweak.
Presentation is the name of the game.
6 Aug 2009 by Grassman2011
Make a frame similar as 12tths above, but strutts to one side only and affix white mesh to the other. The mesh can be ordered to any size, is cheap, light and the wind blows through. Can easily be removed for the winter and does not need regular painting.
7 Aug 2009 by ticky21
ours are as per 12tths but with beam axles off a couple of escort vans cut and stretched ...so they sit on ford escort wheel/tyres....when i mow i nudge them out the way with the front of tractor and in winter they are wheeled to the lock up and chained to the container...
Ticky supports British farmers...!!
7 Aug 2009 by Zippy
Have to agree with Bath, we commissioned a local metalworks fifteen years ago to build a pair of galvanised steel frames to which a eye-letted Tildenet Mesh is attached via heavy duty cable ties.
Our ground is open to the elements, and the screens really stand up to the wind amazingly well.
The mesh is removed and washed during the winter and gives many years service, where as the frames should last a life time. I will post some pics later.
Traditional wood screens are all well and good, but we had some and they lasted about six years before the winter weather took its toll.
7 Aug 2009 by widdywoo
They sound good, BJ.
Our old wooden screens are nearly past their sell by date, and, as Four Oaks said, they tend to blow over in the winter gales, so I think I'll be looking for something new next season.
What dimensions are they roughly?
"I'm cheap, and nought but fashion; fling me away."
9 Aug 2009 by Zippy
Here is a photo of one of our sightscreens designed to take a 3.66 x 5m tildenet eyeletted mesh.
The base measures 5.8 m x 3m and upright frame measures 5.8 x 4m and is attached by two large pins that allow it to be lowered to remove/attach the mesh one the side supports have been unbolted.
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