Little League Complex

[DLAWNS]

Originally Posted by jmoore16135

Try this link for the square footage.
http://www.fielderschoiceinc.com/Fie...seball-Fields/
Click on the table 11.1 link. That should give you an idea on your square footage.
Hope that helps.

Dude, you're my hero. lol Two more questions if you would know off hand, Would you measure to the outfield fence from the backstop or home plate? And would these numbers include the area outside of the foul line?

Any other input and opinions are welcomed as I'm trying to gain as much knowledge about this stuff as possible.

[DLAWNS]

Originally Posted by scagdude

do you have pics of the job? there is no way to get the sq. footage with out asking the customer. you should look at the job and try to estimate how much time and effort it will take then compare it to how much time and effort your normal residentials/commercials take just for a starting price then you can go from there.

Sorry about that, I posted pics in the athletic fields forum. I'm mostly worried about getting the square footage for fertilization prices. Check out the pics and let me know what you think.

[jmoore16135]

I believe the center field numbers in the link are measurements from the back of home plate. And the square footage numbers should be for the total area inside a fenced off baseball/softball field.
Glad I could help...

[DLAWNS]

Cool, thanks again, man.

[puppypaws]

Originally Posted by DLAWNS

I've been starting to run some rough numbers for this bid, but I'm stumped on how to get the square footage of the fields. I'm trying to get pretty accurate numbers. My question is: is there a method to determine square footage of fields? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can use this link and calculate very accurately any property you can see definite points from the aerial photograph. I have used this on my crop fields that I already know the acreage and it comes within a tenth of an acre on fields from 10 to 50 acres.

This is a wonderful way to calculate acreage quickly and easily by just marking points around the property you wish to know the acreage of. To convert to sq. ft. take the acreage shown by the calculation method, such as 1.4 acre and multiply times 43,560 sq. ft. in an acre. This tells your there is 60,984 sq. ft. in that area.

http://www.gravoplex.com/Planimeter/GMapPlanimeter.html

[DLAWNS]

That's awesome, man. Thanks for the awesome tool. I've already been playing with it and have 10 times of a better idea than when I started.

[puppypaws]

Originally Posted by DLAWNS

That's awesome, man. Thanks for the awesome tool. I've already been playing with it and have 10 times of a better idea than when I started.

An athletic field of any type would be very accurate because you can see the outline to follow very closely. The only thing you have to compensate for is where tree lines or overgrowth hangs out into the area you are attempting to calculate. You can allow for a small difference and still be very close area wise. You can also figure area on bodies of water very accurately.

[DLAWNS]

Definitely, if you think about you go a little bit conservative by the tree lines and you still have to account for the infield sand. Man, I wish I was biding football fields instead. It would be much easier. lol

[puppypaws]

Originally Posted by DLAWNS

Definitely, if you think about you go a little bit conservative by the tree lines and you still have to account for the infield sand. Man, I wish I was biding football fields instead. It would be much easier. lol

Run a separate calculation around anything such as infield areas and subtract them out. This is very simple, from the aerial photo run around the entire area to be mowed and then go around anything you want to subtract out and remove it from your calculation.

You could have a 50 acre tract with 3 lakes of 2 to 10 acres each, run around the entire boundary with your mouse putting more points in curves, because it is calculating from point to point. Then run around your lakes and subtract them out, this is your area left to maintain.

On a infield for instance run from the home plate area down the grass line to beyond first base where grass intersects grass then put your points around the arc about every 25' until you intersect back at third base. This will automatically calculate the area inside the infield back to the point at home plate where you started.

[DLAWNS]

Cool, I appreciate all of your help. I will use all of this advice for my bid. Thank you so much.