Athletic-field grading · ballfields · infields · Trestle Junction & Wheelwright County
A field is level because somebody made it level.
Diamond Cut Grading builds and rebuilds ballfields, infields and warning tracks on laser machine control — cut and fill balanced so the outfield stops ponding, infield mix laid to spec depth, every surface drained to a plan instead of a hope. Twelve seasons of school boards and league committees who measure us with a straightedge.
Renovation season runs August to frost-up, construction April to July · fields walked free inside Wheelwright County · (555) 061-7734 · infield@diamondcutgrading.example
What we cut
Three surfaces, one tolerance
Everything with a foul line on it, from a Sunday-league skin to a four-field municipal complex — each surface with its own depth, its own mix, and the same laser on the machine.
Skinned infields, laser-cut
Infield mix laid at four to six inches over a laser-graded subgrade, cut to a half-percent fall so water leaves the skin instead of pooling at second base. Plate and rubber set to spec with the rover, not the eyeball.
Outfields that shed
Cut and fill balanced across the outfield, finish graded to ±0.25 in, and tied into perimeter drainage that moves the April melt off the grass before the first pitch of May.
Tracks, pads & paths
Warning tracks cut to width and depth, aggregate base in two compacted lifts at 95 percent standard Proctor, dugout pads and path systems crowned into the same drainage plan as the field.
Services & rates
The field card, printed
The same card every estimate is written from, school board or Sunday league. Cut and fill is counted from the drone survey, not guessed from the fence line — which is why our numbers survive the season they were quoted in.
The 2026 card
Infield rebuild, full skin$5.10–6.60 / sq ft
Subgrade laser-cut, 4–6 in mix placed and finished, plate and rubber set to spec
Outfield regrade & balance$0.38 / sq ft
Cut and fill balanced by drone count, finish to ±0.25 in, tied to perimeter drain
Warning track, cut & based$7.90 / lin ft
Track cut to width, 6 in of aggregate in two compacted lifts
Tile drainage, field grid$8.40 / lin ft
4-in perforated tile at pattern spacing, stone-blinded, outlets to the ditch
New field, built wholefrom $74,000 / field
Rough grade through finish, mixes, drainage, plate anchors — turnkey to chalk
Season renovation dayfrom $2,900
Skin cut, lip removed, top-dressed, plate reset — one machine day, one line on the card
The sequence
From fence line to first pitch
Five stages, the same on a single skin as on a complex. The tolerance is set by your specification; the sequence is set by us, and it never changes order.
Walk 1
Shoot the field
Drone up, rover out, and the existing field modelled to the tenth of a foot — every low spot that has ever held water is on the map before the quote is written.
The card
Balance & price
Cut and fill counted from the model, mix depths written to spec, and the card filled in on the tailgate. A field that balances its own earthwork saves the district a hundred truckloads.
Day 1
Strip & stockpile
Sod and topsoil peeled to their own piles at the fence line — the outfield’s best six inches goes back on at the end, not to somebody’s fill pit.
The cut
Laser to grade
Subgrade cut on machine control, mix placed to depth, each lift moisture-corrected and rolled. Plate anchors set to surveyed offsets while the grade is open.
Handover
Drain, topdress, chalk
Tile grid blown through and outlets checked, skin topdressed and dragged, and the rover report handed to the groundskeeper with the card.
2025 — 2026
Fields we cut
Six surfaces from the last two seasons, photographed at handover or at the first game played on them. Every one drains to a plan filed with the district.
Who shows up
The crew the straightedge finds
Rilla Voss — grades & finishes
Runs the laser dozer and the rover, played second base at Wheelwright high, and has cut more infields than the county has diamonds. If the skin ponds after her pass, it was raining.
Dell Amarakoon — drainage & anchors
Lays the pattern grid, sets the plate anchors, and reads a drainage plan the way an umpire reads a rulebook — nothing subjective, everything to the line.
Orie Bexley — machines & balances
Flies the drone, writes the cut-and-fill count, and can say to the yard what any field in the county is short of and long on before the truck is booked.
Twelve seasons, measured
Our varsity field held water in right field for eleven years — two groundskeepers, three contractors, one permanent puddle. Diamond Cut flew it, showed the board where the fill was missing, and balanced the outfield out of its own cut. The rover report went in the board minutes. Two full seasons since, and we have not lost a game to standing water.
Boards & committees
Questions from the fence line
The four every field estimate starts with. If yours is not here, the yard line runs seven to five and the person on it has cut a field in your district.
Can you work around our season?
Yes — that is most of the calendar. Renovation days (skin cut, lip out, topdress, plate reset) slot into a single off-day between series; full rebuilds run August to frost-up; new construction runs April to July. The card says which window your field needs, and the schedule is confirmed against your league calendar, not ours.
How much does a full infield rebuild disturb the season?
A full skin rebuild is one focused window — strip, subgrade, mix, finish — typically eight to twelve working days. Fences, irrigation heads and plate anchors are held to surveyed offsets, so the field comes back to the same dimensions it left at, and the groundskeeper gets the rover report that says so.
Why does the outfield need balancing if it looks flat?
Because a puddle is a survey instrument — water finds every tenth of a foot a straightedge forgives. The drone counts the cut and fill to the yard, the dozer walks the high ground into the low, and the outfield that used to pond sheds to the perimeter drain instead. It is the cheapest reconstruction a field can get.
Do you do the drainage or just the grade?
Both, together, because one without the other is half a field: pattern tile under the skin, perimeter drains at the fence line, stone-blinded outlets to the ditch — all on the same model the grader cuts to. The card prices the grid by the foot so a committee can see exactly what drains and what does not.
Put your field on the card
The field, the league, and what it does when it rains. The walk and the drone flight are free inside Wheelwright County, the card is the quote, and the rover report comes with the invoice. infield@diamondcutgrading.example
Renovation days book two weeks out · rebuilds book a season ahead