QUAD Field Painting

1. Knife

2. 2 - Rolls of 800-ft line

3. 18 - Large spikes

4. 100-yd tape measure

Stretch out 100-yd tape

Place a cone (or paint cans) at each end of the tape.

Just look at your field lay out

Are there any problem areas on the field? Holes, dirt patches.

Where do you want the throwing line to be (both ends)?

Adjust cones to good areas of the field for throwing line locations.

Get the big picture of what is going on with that field before doing anything else.

Lines are painted 80-ft across the field.

20-ft buffer zone on each sideline (empty open space).

Field size is 120-ft across.

Paint lines 80-ft across field

20-ft buffer zones on sidelines

120-ft total across the field

With cones at each end of field… you stretch two lines (very tight) the full length of the field.

Tie a loop at each end of string.

Push one spike good and deep into the ground with your foot.

It’s very important to make sure the spikes are in good !!

The string must be pulled very tight like a bow string.

If you did a poor job with the spike, they can fly out of the ground and disappear on the field. NOT GOOD !!

Top priority is to not lose any spikes on the field where our dogs will be running.

With two lines stretched 80-ft apart

One end line needs to be squared.

80-ft 80-ft

The method is called 3 - 4 - 5.

In our case we will be using 30 - 40 - 50 ft.

Stretch out an end line, and measure 30-ft up the sideline.

Mark 30-ft with a nail or spike in the ground by the sideline string.

Measure 40-ft from the corner and mark the middle of the endline.

Use nails or spikes in the ground to mark 40-ft. Do not mark the line itself because the line stretches when adjustments are made.

Now measure from the 30-ft mark on the sideline toward the 40-ft mark on the endline.

If the lines are square it’s 50-ft

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If it’s not 50-ft… you have to adjust your endline until it is 50-ft.

This is a two person job.30

4050

This does not have to be your throwing line

The throwing line can be moved forward or backwards.

But it should be based off of this squared line.

Now measure 40-ft to the middle of the other end of the field.

Then stretch the mid-field line, tight like a bow string.

Now run the 100-yd tape from the throwing line down the field.

Every 3-ft mark a small paint tick inside the line on the grass

Every 5-yds make a “T” with the small paint tick.

This is done the full length of the field… 100-yds

Paint a “T” every 5-yds the full length of the field… 100-yds

Roll up the tape, and repeat a tick of paint every 3-feet down the middle line.

Paint a “T” every 5-yds the full length of the field… 100-yds

Roll up the tape, and repeat a tick of paint every 3-feet down the last sideline.

Every 5-yds a line is stretched like a bow string across the field.

Roll up the tape, and cut the rest of your lines to go across the field.

Every 10-yd line is a solid painted line.

Every 5-yds a dashed line is painted.

Do not go past 80-yds yet. Save your paint and if enough is left… go farther.

These lines are painted out to 80-yds

Repeat the same at the other end of the field. This will be the potential throwing lines.

Go to the throwing line middle line, measure and mark out 10-ft in both directions.

Measure out 20-ft on each side line and pull a string.

Fill in all of your lines across the field.

Nobody gets to put a tent up inside this area.

Paint a dashed line, this is your 20-ft buffer zone.

The direction you think they might throw from.

Fill in all of the hash marks out to 80-yds.

There is no out of bounds with The QUAD.

Remember not to paint sidelines, just hash marks.

80-ft lines, with 20-ft buffers, a total of 120-ft wide.

This is what you end up with.

Still with a 20-ft buffer zone on each sideline.

Last Chance Field is only painted lines 70-ft wide.

I’ve been able to paint 2 fields with 1-dozen cans of white, and half a dozen cans of orange paint.

The secret is painting hash marks last as much as possible, and seeing how much paint you have left before making the field longer.

More than 2 or 3 people helping makes it hard to keep mistakes from happening with accuracy.

Dogs running loose while painting is beyond difficult.

White is the best color of paint to use, and Orange.

Yellow and Red paints do not work very well.

Start as early in the day as possible to avoid any extra suffering beyond what your going to get anyhow.

Painting 2 fields and competing the same day is a recipe for great pain and suffering.

Painting a day or two ahead of the competition makes life so much more pleasant.