Basketball ring with your own hands

Soon there will come a summer season, and many parents with their restless children will leave the city. Adults, as usual, will dig in the beds, but what do bored children do at this time? In this article we have prepared for you information on how to make a basketball ring with your own hands, and with it a playground.

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We choose the location of the site

This question should be approached very responsibly, because many factors need to be taken into account. It is desirable that the playground is located away from home and from the garden.

So, here are the places that are in no way suitable for placing the basketball court:

• On an uneven terrain. Any sports ground means a perfectly flat playing surface.
• Near the ponds. Next to any ponds, especially if you have children, play is contraindicated. It is possible that the ball will fall into the water and restless, wanting to show parents their independence, they themselves will go to get it. Most likely, as a result, they will get into trouble.
• In the lowlands. There, the site will dry very long after precipitation of various precipitation, which means that it will be used very rarely and will soon be abandoned.
• On the site where groundwater is nearby, it is also not possible to play. Each year, the landscape will change, so that the fixation of the shield with the ring will warp.

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Create the

pad surface In order to cover our future site with an even cement surface, on which a self-made basketball ring will soon be standing, the following should be done:

1. Remove the fertile soil layer from the surface. For this, about 50 cm of land is dug. This procedure is necessary in order to further lay the drain cushion, which is laid before the main coating.
2. Lay geotextile on the soil. To do this, it is cut into separate pieces, because it goes whole cloth. Such pieces can be stacked in any position. The main thing to consider is that they cover each other by about 20-30 cm, which excludes the subsidence of the upper layer.
3. After that, the geotextile is sprinkled with sand and leveled, the thickness of this layer should be approximately 15 cm.
4. Lay the geogrid, which will further strengthen the entire structure. The lattice is filled up to half with sand, and the second half with gravel. The thickness of the layer also remains 15 cm.
5. Fill with cement to form expansion joints. This is necessary to ensure that the top coating is well fixed for a long time. In addition, after various precipitation, water will quickly seep through all layers, which will facilitate the rapid drying of the playing place.
6. After all the steps taken, the top layer is laid on the machined surface. They can be any cover: a sports lawn, a special mixture of sand and clay, roll coating and others.

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We equip the basketball corner

Even when the foundation was only being installed, it was necessary to think about where our ring would hang. For convenience, the rack with the rings is set at the edges of the platform, as in the real gym. Here are the dimensions that must be met:

• The minimum distance between the posts is 3 meters.
• The field should be approximately 20 × 35 m.
• The ring itself should be located approximately 2 m from the ground.

Master Shield

It's not difficult to make a basketball ring with your own hands, just like a shield for it. For a self-made shield, we only need to follow the following algorithm:

1. Make a frame from metal corners, which need to be welded together according to the specified dimensions.
2. Pick up the necessary boards in order to make a wall. When they will be sealed, there may be some gaps, but they will not interfere with the game at all. Take into account only that the boards are flat.
3. Next, the manufactured shield needs to be painted to your liking. This procedure can attract children, because they are known to be the best designers.

We make the main component of

Here we will consider a classic woven version and learn how to make a basketball ring with our own hands. In general, it is not so difficult to make, the main thing is to show a little accuracy and desire.

To create woven rings, the truckers will need only two things:

• The base of the ring. Usually it should be made of iron.
• Strong threads. They can be noticed: a thin rope, cords, thick yarn, any rope.

So, what you need to do to ensure that your main component has appeared on your site:

1. At the very beginning it is necessary to make an iron workpiece in the form of a ring and to allocate in it a small ledge. The diameter of the circle should be such that the ball passes freely into it. It's better to entrust such work to a stronger sex.
2. Then comes the work of women. To do this, we take the rope and cut it into 8 equal parts. Then it is necessary to tie them at the previously planned distance so that two ends of one thread hang down downward.
3. After that it's time to start mesh netting. To do this, the neighboring ends of the thick thread segments are tied into knots, obtaining different grid cells. Here all the ends of the ropes are compulsorily involved. Thus, it is necessary to make several layers of cells, until the threads run out.

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Which ring is better?

After making a basketball ring, you can not help wondering what is best: a store ring or what we made ourselves?

Of course, a thing made by own hands always remains the most pleasant eye. That's just to make it much longer than the ring, which can be bought in a store in a couple of minutes. But still, if there is no time for independent production of this thing, it is better to buy it in a special store with sports goods.

So, in this article you learned how to properly install the site, as well as how to make a basketball ring with your own hands for your favorite children, who will use it for a long time. Most likely, and you yourself will be interested to be active and participate in the game.