The quest for the perfect disc golf basket for my home course begins.
I've got enough land around our house to install a functional 9 hole disc golf course on with decent-length fairways and what ought to be some fun holes. The catch is how incredibly expensive disc golf baskets are. The kinds you see at municipal courses run between $300 and $450 each, plus the cost of a permanent sleeve in a concrete base to set them in. For the nine-hole course with multiple tee locations I have in mind, that would run at least $3000.…
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26 - Zeb
Thanks for the article, good read. I just bought the Instep basket at Sam's for $65. Seems like a good deal to me.
27 - Dave Nalle
If baskets are now selling at Sams that may be a sign that DG has become pretty mainstream.
Dave
28 - Bill VanGee
I recently purchased the advertised plans, on sale for $9.99. To date I have built four baskets and they seem to work fairly well. The plans call for 6 inner chains, but I have decided to go without them so that I can use that extra chain for an additional basket. I have just ordered 3 of the InStep baskets so as to have enough goals for my own 9 hole course. While I think that the home built baskets look and work really well, I was able to buy the InSteps for around what it was costing me to build my own. I'll report back on how it all works out.
Bill
29 - Bill VanGee
I forgot on my last blog to note how I was getting around my stand up base. The ones in the plans didn't really light my fire so instead I have taken a standard masonry building block and cemented a regular chain link fence rail sleeve haft way into the block. This fits the post used in the plans and allows for easy removal for transport. It provides a nice stable base for practice, and also allows me to simply dig a hole and bury the block with the sleeve sticking out for easy target removal if I desire something a little more permanent
30 - Brenton E.
I, too, had been looking for a "cheap" basket or plans to build one. Like everyone else, I searched the interwebs and the big-box home improvement stores without find much inspiration. After getting a 55 gal. plastic drum and having a broken market umbrella turn up, the epiphany happened. I'm very pleased with the result - incredibly sturdy, grabs discs well and is very near regulation. I'm happy to share my method with those who are interested.
31 - wolfc
check out my basket.