Wednesday, February 24, 2016

#LifeOnTheRoad - Dugout Storage Design

This is another post in a periodic series entitled #LifeOnTheRoad.  The background is simple. During my travels I  encounter many grounds managers/coaches doing great things.  Because of this, I have started this series.  The goal - expose more grounds managers, coaches, architects, etc to areas of facility and sports turf maintenance that may be implemented to their facility/design.

This past week I was in Ada, Ohio.  A quick site visit at Northern Ohio University lead me to a great dugout storage design.  


 
The design incorporated a paved path to the dugout storage where a sliding door was located.  The design allowed for a pallet of material to be placed in the dugout.  A simple, yet effective design.  A piece of the design that was not incorporated but would be nice in the future is another sliding door on the field side.  Simply mount a shelf to hold water/Gatorade when in season.  When needed the door could then slide open.

Go to j-dturf.com to learn more about J&D Turf

Play on!
--Jamie
@JamieMehringer

2 comments:

  1. There is nothing worse than an adult size baseball field not having men playing there instead of boys that are twelve years old who are not strong enough to send fly balls over the fence. It is called sending in boys to do a man's job.

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  2. That is playing baseball the wrong way when boys who are not strong enough to be playing on an adult size field are playing there anyway when they are not supposed to be doing that, but their coach is a brainless moron who does not discipline them with enough batting practice to instantaneously hit baseballs over the fence by swinging the bats once without having to swing those bats multiple times just to do that.

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