Anyone here made their own jumps?

Yes, have made some jumping fillers, jump stands and planks (bought the metal end bits from the Robinsons' catalogue), so they were easy!

My jump stands are rather basically put together, but last for years.

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As above, but a more basic base, very simple and easier to move about than some stands....and then you can paint them when you are bored;) I can't find any finished photos.:D I have some lovely dayglo orange paint for this year:o

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Not sure on wings but we used to use homemade poles...

Get down to your local carpet shop and ask them for the tubes that go on the inside of the rolls of carpet. Some of them can be a bit too long unless you have a trailer but on average the rolls are 5/6ft long.
When you have got them home you can make them heavier by filling them with some sand and taping the ends but to be honest the thickness of the cardboard makes them quite heavy anyway...at least as heavy as the plastic Poly Poles you can buy.
You can paint them any colour you want and it doesn't matter if they get squashed as they are cardboard and free!!!
Only downside is you need to keep them indoors to stop them from getting wet but my friend bought those plastic pole covers for her tubes and after taping the ends they were waterproof!!!!
Cheap & Easy!!!
 
I was thinking about this too !

Came across these on ebay ..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-Pairs-Show-...t=UK_Horse_Wear_Equipment&hash=item4cf5deb941

£88 is not bad for 3 sets of wings and cups but they come flat packed - if you have to put them together yourself then how much would jsut the materials be ??? my dads well nifty with a drill!! Food for thought especially now I have seen the fab painted ones lol :-)

ETS : .... and he's a carpet fitter !!!!
 
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Sedgemoor Chaos said:
Not sure on wings but we used to use homemade poles...

Get down to your local carpet shop and ask them for the tubes that go on the inside of the rolls of carpet. Some of them can be a bit too long unless you have a trailer but on average the rolls are 5/6ft long.
When you have got them home you can make them heavier by filling them with some sand and taping the ends but to be honest the thickness of the cardboard makes them quite heavy anyway...at least as heavy as the plastic Poly Poles you can buy.
You can paint them any colour you want and it doesn't matter if they get squashed as they are cardboard and free!!!
Only downside is you need to keep them indoors to stop them from getting wet but my friend bought those plastic pole covers for her tubes and after taping the ends they were waterproof!!!!
Cheap & Easy!!!
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fantastic idea, will be trying this one definitely!

when we were kids we'd make jumps out of ANYTHING we could get our hands on. traffic cones and bollards were a favourite.... not that i'm advocating going out in the dark in the pickup and borrowing them from the side of the road..... :)

I remember sawing wooden pallets in half, making feet to stand them up, then filling them with 'brush' from conifers and christmas trees. And we used to get all sizes of plastic barrells from the industrial estate - i cant remember where from, but i do remember that they smelled of apples so probably had something to do with cider. And old wooden doors were good fillers too. we'd regularly raid the local tip for anything interesting.

At the yard i'm at now, they're having alot of drainage works done and there are loads of off cuts of plastic tubing around which we're planning on hi-jacking for jumps. And my OH is a mechanic so there's always plenty of used tyres to make jumps out of.

otherwise where we are now, we make the jumps we've got more interesting by hanging rugs on them, putting buckets under them, laying rugs under them to look like ditches/water jumps ect. Also all the poles that have snapped or rotten get sawn into skinnies :)
 
Most garages have piles of old tyres.If you can get tyres still on the rims and cut out a 4 inch by 4 inch square in the centre of the rim,then cut down to length a piece of 4x4 timber (3ft,4ft) whatever height you want.Drill out holes in the timber every 2-3 inches for jump cups,slot timber into rims and bang down so secure.. there you go.
 
Thankyou everyone for all your ideas AND brilliant diy jobs, not to mention fab painting too!
I am not short on tyres, or poles really, just need ideas for stands. I now know, thanks to you, how they can be made, so watch this space!!
I can buy jump cups alone can't I? Or is there a way of making them too??

I have also got an option of buying an old portable XC jump, palasade/sharks teeth. Have no idea what it is worth though and I might be able to get some old oil drums too. Somewhere I have seen 'jump cups' hooked onto these, but where do you get those from?
 
RuthnMeg said:
I have also got an option of buying an old portable XC jump, palasade/sharks teeth. Have no idea what it is worth though and I might be able to get some old oil drums too. Somewhere I have seen 'jump cups' hooked onto these, but where do you get those from?
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I got mine from Derby house - not sure if they still do them though
 
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