Calling all those without a fancy full set of showjumps...

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EquiGirl1

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The yard I am at has the most useless set of jumps ever, plastic poles that are so light that they blow off the cups on your approach, and no fillers. I am not going to go out and buy proper jumps for the yard but I think a few of us would club together for some wooden poles and materials.

What do you guys use at home, assuming I am not the only one without a fancy set of jumps? I remember when I was little we all had no problems stealing roadworks and other bits but am looking for other suggestions besides those of theft... ;)
 
Have a look at jumpstack jump covers. I won some a while ago, and instead of filling them with bales, I cut them a bit, put two poles inside, one to hang it and one of weight it down to the ground and it worked well.

http://jumpstack.co.uk/
 
Traffic cones are good, not that I have any idea how they end up at home... Have a feeling booze may have something to do with it... But you can also buy cup things to go on the top of them to put poles on or use them as fillers.

Also we use tyres, stack them up and use as wings.

Oh and all of our poles are woodens 10-12ft fence posts which we bought for £8 each from the local garden center a couple of yrs ago.
 
It's not theft if you chat up the roadworkers & they accidently leave stuff behind on purpose for you. Poles & planks you can get from a timber merchant. Fillers, basically any junk that is available, anything from rows of feedbuckets, old painted wood, whatever you come across will do.
 
I like your ways of thinking (mostly the drinking and chatting up). Let me go make myself a vodka and go chat up the british gas guys digging up the end of my road ;)
 
I like the look of the jumpstack fillers, anyone know how much they cost? The website doesn't seem to say and the nearest stockists aren't v close to investigate!
 
there was another thread on here ages ago about home made jumps. someone suggested going to a carpet stockist, and getting the inner tube from a roll of carpet, they're meant to be very strong. I keep meaning to go down to Carpet Right and see what they've got, but i don't think 12ft inner tubes will fit in the back of my golf haha.
we had a load of pallets here, I cut some in half and nailed 'feet' to them, and then you can fill the gap at the top with brush to make working hunter jumps. Also, ive seen someone on fb advertising fillers, they're basically a thin sheet of plywood which has been jigsawed into a shape, hand painted, then to fix them to the jump she uses velcro.
Otherwise could you not weight your lightweight poles with sand to make them a bit heavier?
 
We used plastic carpet roll inner tubes cut down, also some left over drain pipes (turned over are great for a ground line) and down pipes, all painted brightly with left over decorating paint we had kicking about, off cut squares of board were painted up and are used as fillers, I also made some flags out of garden canes and some silver damp proof membrane I had left over :-)

We found if the plastic poles are too light fill with some sand/soil and tape the ends up! Works a treat :-)
 
Yep, i've used pallets too, cut in half & filled with brush. Also went down to the local timber merchant & bought some cheap wood we put together & painted to make fillers. For cups - what about used horseshoes? Have seen them used but never used them myself.
 
Not exactly 'showjumps' but a lot of our childhood was spent dragging massive logs back to the stables to jump over. Even to this day while out hacking I'm always on the look out for big logs :p
 
Tab top curtains are good as fillers. Just slide them onto a pole & either leave them to hang to get horse used to flappy stuff or weigh the bottoms down with some rocks or something :)

We've also made a brick wall looking filler out of a pallet with a thin wooden sheet attached & painted up xx
 
Traffic cones and tyres are brill for make shift jumps - for poles I ordered some long poles from a local timber merchant and just cut the spikes off the end - they are the same size as show jump poles and look great - and one of the girls on the yard got her OH to build jump wings from wood but hes really good with stuff like that. Use bales of shavings too to make a jump, and those black bins you get out of B&Q - put some sand in them, glue the lid shut and use two poles laid either side of it for some stability - and voila, you have a barrel jump
 
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hehe, well i have before when i was desperate to jump something, emptied all the plastic boxes out of my tackroom for wings, threw a tarp over the top and weighed it down with a log... Horse thought it was brill lol, but then the builder who over looked the field took pity on me and made me some very basic wings out of oddments of wood. they have seen better days so my new OH has promised to make me a full set with pallet fillers included, i will just have to go to the wood shop and buy the round rails :D

the way he described making them seemed very easy, one straight bit up, then a cross at the bottom bolted together, said he would whip them up in a few hours but we will see ;)
 
We have the plastic poles but with a wooden centre they're really good because they are light to set up but not so light that they blow away in the wind!
 
Jumpstack as mentioned already are brilliant. You just pull them over square bales - they're brightly coloured designs so super for training youngsters. I found them great for eventing practice too as I could make different types of fence out of them - stack them up in different ways, like I could make a skinny using just one bales width etc. They're really good value for money too.
 
We are currently jumping old plastic chemical/oil containers cable tied together in a row,the same containers with a step cut out of them for poles,and section of drainage pipe wrapped in electrical tape.Last week I went down to the wood yard with a £20 note and asked how may 6ft fencing stakes I could get for cash.I got 6.Bargain!
 
I made my own jump stands for less than £10 per pair. They are no frills but do the job. I bought some 2x4 timber (smiled nicely at local agricultrural suppliers and got them to chop 3.6m lengths into three parts, each 1.2m long). Each upright is therefore 1.2m and I drilled lots of large holes in them big enough for a jump cup to go through. I then chopped one of the 1.2m parts into 4 equal 30cm lengths and these form the base. They are brilliant and a really handy height for schooling - I don't tend to jump bigger unless instructor conning me in lessons ;)

I have also acquired some scaffold boards that make good planks. Off to local agricultural store again on Saturday to pick up some round poles - got some 3" diameter ones in currently for £4.50 each....be rude not to!

Other than that I used bales, feed sacks for water trays and anything else that is safe to jump. Always on the look out for oil drums and cones too - remind me so much of pony days :D
 
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