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Janis1

18/6/2010 at 2:29pm
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Please be careful with your little one though. I spent the whole evening in A&E last night due to a little one getting too close to a bat while it was being used in a game of swingball. Unfortunately because of the delay in the hospital treating him he will have a lifelong scar because of it.

firestorm1

18/6/2010 at 3:18pm
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The hammer in ones are a lot sturdier, I have both but we use the water one for taking out unless you have a very good lump hammer.

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nands

18/6/2010 at 7:22pm
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I'm sorry to hear about your little one Janis. I hope he's not too sore and recovers soon. Maybe I would be safer with the football swingball. I have been looking at those too. But they seem expensive for what they are.

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mattv

19/6/2010 at 12:04am
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We have the one that you spike into the ground, small and works really well - lives in the garden and doesn't kill a patch of grass. The box ones are not as study, okay for kids I guess though.

Jonah177

19/6/2010 at 12:25am
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We have the one with the base you fill, and even my 16 stone hubby hasn't managed to knock it over yet. I was giving it a good whack around with my 9yo the other week and it was fine. We used to have the screw in one, which was fine too, but it got left out and went rusty! I think it's psychological for us, having a box to put it away in means it actually goes away and doesn't end up propped by the side of the shed!

D S B

19/6/2010 at 12:48pm
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If I were to be choosing, I would go for a hammer in the ground type, even if just to avoid the extra journey to the tap to fill up the base and then to have to carry it back again to the pitch. You could use rock.... but then you've got to find and collect them. To simply hammer it in the ground would get my vote.

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19/6/2010 at 11:22pm
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Cheaper one here.

http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-1428744-10294381?url=http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3670846/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CToys+and+games%7C14417629/c_2/3%7Ccat_15701456%7COutdoor+games%7C14417853.htm?_$ja=tsid:11527%7Ccc:%7Cprd:3670846%7Ccat:toys+%26+games+%3E+outdoor+games+%3E+ball+games

girlwomble

20/6/2010 at 8:04am
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We have the one that packs away in the box so we can play inside at home when it's raining!

paul_w_100

20/6/2010 at 2:57pm
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We have the 'fill in with water' type one. No problems with it falling over, and box is handy for packing it all into..

craig b

20/6/2010 at 7:17pm
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we have had them before but the ball always comes off after a day or two of kids (adults) thwacking it around

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hlk01

21/6/2010 at 2:27pm
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Swingball in Aldi 24th June.

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D S B

21/6/2010 at 3:04pm
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Quote: Originally posted by hlk01 on 21/6/2010
Swingball in Aldi 24th June.

Do you know if it is a box type, of hammer in the ground type?

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21/6/2010 at 4:52pm
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Aldi version here:
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