To protect your playing field from the elements and improve player safety, consider investing in good quality protection. With daily use, your field can suffer significant damage over time that is difficult to contain. Winter rain and precipitation are especially harsh on baseball and softball turf. Facilities managers using these specially designed field covers to cover play areas spend much less time and money on maintenance. Let’s take a closer look at some of the short-term and long-term benefits.
Benefits of Using a Softball Field Cover
• Protects your grounds from rain, hail, sleet, ice, occasional snowfall, wind, and UV exposure.
• Reinforced polyethylene fabric prevents waterlogging when it rains
• Avoids avoidable rains and rain delays between games
• Protects bases, home plate, and pitcher’s mound when not in use.
• Reduces damage caused by weather in winter months
• Protects your inner frame from excessive foot traffic
• It gives your turf a chance to recover from the game.
• Helps maintain ideal playing conditions and reduces the risk of player injury
• Reduces maintenance effort and cost while maintaining high value
Having the right type of equipment can save you a considerable amount of time, money, and stress in terms of maintenance tasks. In addition to this, you should also consider mound and stain covers and plates for added protection.
When shopping, it is highly recommended that you purchase quality products made from a single piece of material. Reinforced polyethylene fabric or vinyl works best. Having weighted stitching on the edges helps keep the cover in place. You can also use sandbags or stakes to keep it from moving. Make sure the seams are heat sealed and double stitched (to prevent splitting) and that they have sturdy grommets (preferably brass) for the stakes.
Since they come in many sizes, it is important to know the dimensions of the floor before going out to make a purchase. It may be worth investing in canvas rollers that reduce the time it takes to unfold the covers and limit product damage as well as make storage easier.
Where can you buy these field covers for your facilities? Buy from an established sports equipment dealer that offers quality products and consistent service. Cheap and poor quality field covers will not last for many seasons.
Help outfielders keep bases, batting boxes, and pitching mound protected with quality softball field coverage.
