Cheap poles for showjuming??

[Geegee2009]

Has anyone found any good solutions for poles for jumping at home, my lovely boyfriend is brilliant at making wings but now it seems I m going to have to shell out a fortune in poles. Any suggestions at all? I was thinking perhaps I might try fencing/builders merchants but not sure whether they have round poles or not...

 

[SNORKEY]

We use the thick yellow tubes that they use for underground cables/pipes, they are perfect if you can find anyone that can get them.

 

[TS_]

Definatly try fencing/builders merchants, you never know what they might have in. I know people have gotten round poles from places like this and painted them. We have some at the yard and they're just as good as 'proper' ones.

 

[sueeltringham]

The tubes that carpets are wound on at salesrooms are supposed to be fantastic. I've never used them though, but apparently you can get them for free.

Sue

 

[Dubsie]

Scats had some 12ft jumping poles, and some 8ft ones which we bought as I could get them in the car, they were only about £3.70 each which I didn't think was too expensive, daughter has painted them up yellow and white striped and they look great.

 

[marmalade76]

Our local sawmill charges £2.50 each for 10ft poles.

 

[OneInAMillion]

We bought a load of 3 inch fence posts and cut the points off them

 

[jojo180]

your local countrywide. they are around £7.50 per rustic 12ft pole and £10 delivery for how ever many you want. I painted mine and will be ordering more soon.

 

[Faithkat]

B&Q (for example) do plastic piping quite cheaply:
http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/product/productPage.jsp?productId=18180