Heater Baseball Pitching Machine with 12 Ball Automatic Feeder
Posted by: Mr.BaseBall in Balls
Heater Baseball Pitching Machine with 12 Ball Automatic Feeder The Heater baseball pitching machine from Trend Sports provides a high quality pitching machine at a low price. The powerful 1/4 horsepower motor throws baseballs at variable speeds up to 50 miles per hour. Includes automatic feeder that holds 12 baseballs. Just turn on the feeder and each ball is dropped into the Heater pitching machine every 15 seconds. Take batting practice without the need for another player
Customer Review: Lightweight, accurate and fun
We bought the heater combo and couldn’t be happier. It throws very accurate at various speeds. My 5 year daughter likes to swing using the lowest settings, and my 12 year old daughter uses it to practice swinging at 40 to 50mph 12 inch softballs. It is great for adults as well. Get the ball feeder, but make sure you purchase the correct size dimple balls. Some oversized 12inch balls sold on ebay will not work. Go with brand name dimple balls and you won’t be disappointed.
One of the screws did not initially tighten easily on one of the legs (same issue as described by another rater), but I did not find this to be a big issue. We use the heater almost every day and the legs go in and out easily.
I did purchase a 2300W pramac honda generator to run the heater pitching machine, and have no issues with power shutdown issues. I am told it will run on much less wattage.
Customer Review: The Heat Not So Hot
Our “Heat” softball pitching machine “stripped” a layer of the softball off and jammed the machine. It eventually threw it out the front of the machine. Also the nut that holds the screw to tighten the leg just fell off. The welding was not well done at all. We rate it a 2 because once it was unjammed and up to speed, it did pitch the ball, but again it stripped the ball and jammed.
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