How to Make a Professional Batting Cage Net

Batting cage nets can be purchased through your local sporting goods store or custom ordered to fit the size of your batting cage. The cost of purchasing a batting cage, maintaining it or replacing it at a later time vary. Making your own professional batting cage net can range in style and complexity. Using a common knotting technique and the twine you find best suits your needs for strength, you can construct a temporary or extended-use batting cage net.

Things You'll Need

  • Craft yarn/thread
  • Nylon or polyethylene twine
  • Clips
  • Standard-size professional baseball
  • Scissors
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Instructions

    • 1

      Using spare thread, practice making a square not. This is a knotting technique used most for various types of netting. The types of knots you may use vary in their holding ability, but this is a standard knot that will be easier to repair from the wear and tear that will come.

    • 2

      Determine the size of net you will need for your batting cage. Using a standard baseball, gauge the best size for your loops. Cut and measure equal lengths of twine to make your first square/loop for your net.

    • 3

      Take hold of both ends of the twine and twist the right side over and under the left side. Tie the right side of the twine over the left. This your foundation loop and is the start of the first row of your net.

    • 4

      Thread another piece of twine through this first loop. Continue to repeat this process to make more loops and attach them, being sure to alternate tying left over right and right over left. Pull the knotted sections tight from both sides as you go.

    • 5

      Thread the loop onto a pole or pin it to a surface to keep it steady while you work.

    • 6

      Make another loop directly under these two loops, connecting them with the other loop bottoms at the center so the middle threads form a Y shape. Tie and continue to add loops in rows, expanding to the sides.

    • 7

      Increase the number of loops in each row gradually to make the net wider.

      Once you have made the net the desired width and length, decrease the number of loops until you taper the end of the bottom side to make the end of the net smaller again.

    • 8

      Test the knotted joints of the loops and ensure that the sections are all securely knotted and tightened.

    • 9

      To test the strength of the net, practice hitting the baseball into the net a few times. Check your net in the areas you hit to see that the net is holding and the loops are not too big.