| Axtell BSA |
| Field Maintenance |
| It is the goal and responsibility of the Axtell Board, all coaches and parents to help maintain our complex to ensure a safe / desirable playing surface and enjoyable surroundings. We have received numerous compliments from surrounding communities about our fields and complex. |
| The 2010 Board is striving to provide all parents/coaches with proper tools and equipment to achieve this goal. As part of this process, the Board will host a maintenance orientation day scheduled for Sunday, March 14 ( 2-4 pm). We will go over how to operate and use the equipment. |
| We are in the process of constructing a maintenance building to house our equipment. Each field will have a designated equipment area in this building. |
| Tools/ equipment for each field (each in a separate green cart): |
| 1. Rakes |
| 2. Tamping Tool |
| 3. Hoses/ quick coupler valve/spray nozzles |
| 4. Base clean out tool |
| 5. Chalking tools (string, chalker, and PVC markers) |
| 6. 5 gal bucket for ball field dirt (Ball field dirt is located outside the right field corner of field 1-parking lot) |
| General Maintenance Equipment: |
| 1. Kawasaki Mule (used for field dragging and general maintenance) |
| 2. John Deere Field Groomer (used for field dragging only) |
| 3. Shovels |
| 4. Drag Mat |
| AXTELL BSA |
| Post Game /Practice Field Maintenance Procedures |
| Clean /Pick up Trash: Priority --Must be completed after every practice and game. (If Parents help out these tasks will go quickly and help keep our complex looking clean.) |
| 1. In both visitors and home dugouts |
| 2. Under both visitors and home bleachers |
| 3. Then empty trash barrels into the dumpster |
| 4. Repair mound and landing area ( wet, tamp, rake ) |
| 5. Repair batter’s box and catching box ( wet, tamp, rake ) |
| Field Maintenance: Based upon priority below and as time allows |
| 1. Repair and rake around bases - Pull bases - put in base stops - rake around bases (wet, tamp, rake if needed ) - put bases back down. |
| 2. Drag field. Pull bases (put in base stops) Begin with a slow drag around edge of dirt/ grass. Then begin dragging the field as needed. There is no one particular way to drag. Just ensure entire infield has been covered. |
| 3. Rake the infield grass edge. Rake the dirt that has accumulated in the grass edge back to the infield. |