How To Build A Pitching Mound In Your Backyard. Find a suitable spot in your backyard and make sure that the land is level. Attach a 2 x 4 x 4' to the front of the stringers.
You need to determine the exact distance from the home plate and mark it if you have not done it before. Use an electric garden edger to carefully cut two to three inches deep around the edge of the sticks creating the outline of the mound You should elevate it 10” above the rest of the playing field.
How to build a backyard pitcher's mound.
Square the rubber into position by taking a measuring tape and measure from the front left corner of home plate to the front left corner of the pitcher's rubber. Six inches from the front edge of the table is the pitcher’s plate (also called the rubber), which measures six inches deep by 24 inches wide. The pitcher’s mound the flat area atop the diamond, called the table, measures 5 feet wide by 34 inches deep. Use a tamp to compact each level as you build.