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Hi. I'm trying to think of a cheap way of making sure my son can't kick his football's over into the adjacent garden his goals are 5ft high and the fence is 7ft high so ideally I would like some kind of netting with 3 or 4 posts that are 10ft or 12ft high. I'm thinking of getting some scaffolding poles cut to length and concrete them into the ground. Then somehow attach the netting.
Anyone with ideas please?
Scaffold, drilled out and use eyelet bolts. Wouldn't need to be a high precision job to do what you need so should be easy enough but would your neighbours be cool with a 12 foot wall of scaffold and netting?
These sorts of things
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Yes that's exactly what I had in mind. Neighbours should be fine. Better them having to keep throwing balls back.
http://www.romida.co.uk/cages-nets-etc.html
Ex colleague of mine had a similar issue, but rather than something permanent and unsightly he got a couple of poles and a run of netting from a cricket supplier and then used metposts or similar buried in the shrubs behind the goal the posts could slot into and back out of so they didn't have to stay there permanently
or leave the posts in, but set the net up on a pulley system so it can be launched when in use?
Tubes not poles! Poles are made of wood, not been used in the UK for scaffolding for many decades.
Head down to your local scaffolding firm and ask for some tubing that they are thinking of getting rid of, it gets a hard life so there's a steady throughput of tubing.
Probably cheaper to teach your son to get his head over the ball 😛
Yetidave +1, obviously you want to ask for tubes not poles (otherwise you'll get either a helpful Eastern European or a glorified stick) it will have the profile / height of a washing line when down.
I'd mention to the neighbours first but I'm nice like that.
can you not just put the ball on a piece of bungie and tie it round his ankle. He'll soon learn not to kick it so hard 🙂
Move goal to other end of garden?
Move goal to other end of garden?
Next thread - 'Recommend me a glazier' 🙂
Our neighbour has put netting up on the fence.
Balls still come over.
Maybe they should switch to rugby.