Budget jump ideas

[Mrs C]

Looking for any ideas to make small jumps. We have trotting poles but no jump wings. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks

 

[HeyMich]

Tyres
Buckets (upturned)
Milk crates
Oil drums with the handy hanging jump cups
Hay bales

Or if it's for really small jumps/raised poles you can use cheap baby potties (for £1 each at the pound shop) or just simple blocks of wood.

 

[welshpony216]

this^^^^^
For fillers, you could use
old ripped blankets
hay
milk cartoons (with some gravel or sand in them so they don't go flying around)
milk crates
cones
I have used cardboard boxes
buckets (upturned)

 

[hopscotch bandit]

I would advise against using milk crates for wings. They are extremely dangerous should your horse attemp to duck out the jump and land on one.

Because they are made of strong plastic they can cut like a knife and should a horse land on one it wont be able to get its foot out and will tear it's leg (and tendons) to shreds. Especially this https://www.homebrewcentre.co.uk/plastic-bottle-crate-holds-20-beer-bottles:

It always makes me grimace when i see physios and chiropractors standing on one to get the necessary height to treat a horses back.

 

[GoldenWillow]

If you are at all handy you can make stands. We used 6ft Square fence posts, and I think it was 3" x 1 1/2" inch for the feet and attached them like this. These are ones I found on ebay, but we cut the ends of the base pieces on an angle so there were no square edges. We used screws rather than nails and we did have to buy a thick drill bits for the holes. It would be 7 or 8 years ago that we made them and we bought wood from wood yard rather than retail outlet but they worked out at approx £5 per stand.

 

[Mrs C]

Thanks all. Yes I'm worries about using buckets or crates in case she puts a foot through. Hay bakes - would the pole roll if it was hit?
Thanks for the pics goldenwillow I can ask hubby.
Seen some plastic polyblock type things but they're 80 quid a pair!

 

[stormox]

Barrels, and you can get things that hang on them as jump cups if you dont want them full height.
Tyres - make a great jump on their own or put piles on them - they can be used in a lot of ways.
Bales as fillers.
Pallets, as they are or cut in half
You can make a great course with odds and ends and imagination

 

[LEC]

i would make cavaletti ends personally as will give you a lot more flexibility. Marine Ply and off you go. We copied the design from the Jump for joy ones.

 

[welshpony216]

Hay bakes - would the pole roll if it was hit?

If you place the pole in the right place, it will fall. with hay, make sure that the bale is tight, as a hoof can get caught.

 

[thea009]

chairs, barrels. most of my jumps are made from wood brought quite cheaply i think, was a good project for the summer