SAND MAN 850
INFIELD SOIL CLEANER AND STONE PICKER
The Sand Man works as an infield groomer that keeps baseball fields safe and game-ready. Its vibrating screen pulls small stones, glass, and debris out of infield soil, and a finisher attachment grooms the surface smooth behind it. For grounds crews preparing fields day after day, here’s how the walk-behind Sand Man delivers a consistent infield without towed equipment.
Frequently Asked Questions
The SAND MAN drives its vibrating sifting screen across the infield skin, scooping up material and vibrating it through the screen. Fine infield material passes through while stones, glass, and hard debris are retained and collected in the hopper.
The SAND MAN 850 covers 15,000–35,000 sq ft/hr. A standard Little League infield skin of approximately 5,000–8,000 sq ft can be cleaned in well under 30 minutes.
No. The SAND MAN skims the top layer of skinned infield material, lifts stones and hard debris through the screen, and returns the fine soil to the surface. It removes contaminants rather than hauling away playing material, so clay and top dressing stay in place. Run a shallow depth for routine passes and go deeper only to dig out embedded rock.
No, it complements them. The SAND MAN does what drags cannot: pull stones, glass, and hard debris out of the skin. Crews still use nail drags, brooms, and watering for game-day surface conditioning. Many parks teams run the SAND MAN periodically to decontaminate the infield, then finish with their standard tools before play.
Yes. The vibrating screen retains hard objects mixed into the skin, including metal fragments, nails, broken glass, and other sharps that pose injury risks on a slide. This makes it valuable at older or shared-use fields where debris settles into the soil over years and never shows on the surface.
Yes. Because it is self-propelled and light enough to load into a pickup, one machine rotates between diamonds in a single morning without a trailer or tractor. It clears a standard skinned infield quickly, so a small crew can decontaminate several fields on a maintenance route rather than dedicating equipment to each one.