All You Need To Know About The Baseball Backstop Nets!

For excellent and safe sporting practices, it is important to choose your netting material prudently. This not only makes your field more appealing but also adds an extra layer of safety to your gaming court, giving the audience another reason to visit!

Every sport is highly prone to accidents while the athletes have their fleeting moments. When a puck, baseball, or any other object flies into the stands, it can potentially hit and have dire consequences.

The simplest and cost-effective solution to prevent these injuries is to have a protective netting installed to avoid flying objects from injuring spectators, other players, and coaches. Outdoor sports applications for netting include practice nets, golf driving ranges, baseball batting cages, and tennis courts. Netting does not provide safety for outdoor sports fields only but to many indoor arenas.

Common Netting Types:

The most common netting materials popularly used are polyethene, polyester, and nylon. Poly netting is considered suitable for lighter applications like youth-baseball, whereas nylon netting is out of the most popular where durable and long-lasting is required.

Nylon netting is considered best to keep the fastest and heaviest objects from drifting out of the ground and into the stands.

Here are the Baseball Backstop Netting Border Options

There are many options available in the market, but here are the best baseball backstop nets:

Regular Rope Border: The most popular option, these nets are weaved in and out of each mesh and sewn in the corners. 

Sewn Rope Border: These nets are weaved in and out of each mesh, sewn in corners & every mesh.

Lead Core Rope Bottom: This rope is sewn to the bottom rope border of the net to keep the net weighed down against balls, hitting the net or the wind. The top and two sides of the net have regular rope borders.

Vinyl Border with Grommets: The 18-ounce vinyl is sewn into net around the perimeter of the net and grommets are then punched into the vinyl every 18 inches.

Vinyl and Lead Core Rope Bottom: Lead core rope is fixed into an 18-ounce vinyl piece that is sewn onto the net bottom to keep the net from flying while the wind blows or from balls hitting the net. The two sides and top will have regular rope borders.

Here are a few other advantages of Nylon Netting: 

• Breaking strength is an important feature of nylon netting; however, the intensity may vary depending upon the usage the net is put to. 
• Another critical factor to consider while purchasing a net is abrasion resistance. The spinning ball wears the netting down with heat and abrasion. Nylon nets have excellent abrasion-resistance. Thus, it is considered excellent material for nets.
• Nylon is a white fibre in its natural state. The most common treatment done for UV protection is dying the material black, and all the nylon nets are UV protected.
• High compressive and tensile strength with good toughness. The tensile and compressive strength of nylon netting is higher than that of a metal.
• The fatigue resistance of nylon is extraordinary, and the original mechanical strength is easy to maintain after repeated bending of the workpiece.
• Nylon nets are heat resistance and a high softening point.
• Nylon Netting is wear-resistant with a smoother surface and a small friction coefficient. The material is self-lubrication when used as a mechanical moving component. In the circumstances where the friction is not too high, nylon nets can be used without a lubricant.
• Nylon nettings are corrosion-resistant, very resistant to most salt liquids and alkali, also resistant to engine oils, gasoline, weak acids, aromatic hydrocarbon-resistant compounds, and other general solvents.
• As a material, Nylon has self-extinguishing property, is non-toxic, odourless, has excellent weather resistance, inert to biological erosion, and has good anti-mildew and antibacterial ability.
• The most significant advantage of nylon netting is that the parts are light-weighted, easy to dye, and easy to form.

These all features of nylon as material make it a better choice for netting in sports fields!

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Diane Smith Joined: November 27th, 2019