Do you have jump4joy jumps or similar? How many? How do you arrange them?! :)

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I'm going to buy some jump stands because our wooden ones are heavy and falling apart!! I'm a bit confused as to how many I should get though for the 40x25m arena :confused:

I was thinking about having 8 stands and maybe 20 cups so that some of the fences can be attached to save space and make 3 jumps from 4 stands.Does that sound about right?! If you have them how many do you have and do you find yourself using them in any particular way? Or not using them etc...

I'm on the fence about spending lots of money for fillers at home because I could only afford 1 or 2 and then when my horses have jumped them a few times I wonder if they will be worth the money:confused:

Should I go for the 25mm cups or 20mm? I often jump by myself so maybe the deeper ones would be better!!

Also does anyone have the telescopic jump stands of lunging over jumps/making corners out of? They look pretty good but not really sure how practical/sturdy they would be?

Any advice would be great. Pictures would be amazing!!

Can offer tanqueray as its a Saturday ;)
 
I bought mine many years ago and they are still perfect. I use them as 4 stands to make 3 angled jumps and find them great. I also have a telescopic stand with the double cup for a corner jump like XC fence. I think they will last forever
 
i bought mine from bargain jumps in kelso - google them - they deliver nationwide. I have their wooden ones but they also make polymer stands, and funky fillers - all at a very reasonable price too.

I have 16 uprights (5' high) and I have 12 poles, 3 planks and a gate, I also have a water tray.

Its not quite enough to make a full course - there are plenty of wings for making a grid, but I'm short of poles. fillers are great always, and I plan to replace my wooden stuff with the polymer stuff over the next couple of years. With 16 stands you can make one grid with two uprights, and a spread plus 3 or 4 fences to do related lines etc. sometimes I could do with more uprights, but what i have is a good workable number.

The water tray, gate and planks are good, as are the stands at the moment but I am in the process of replacing the poles - probably could do with 20 in total.

Oh and my poles are 8 foot long as they are space saving too :)

here is a vid of some being used - as my fillers are now falling apart I only use one under the fences instead of the pair but you can get the idea of the space saving side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVeUPCBBjmc was working on trying to get him to land on the right leg - you can see it needs work!
 
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carthorse said:
I bought mine many years ago and they are still perfect. I use them as 4 stands to make 3 angled jumps and find them great. I also have a telescopic stand with the double cup for a corner jump like XC fence. I think they will last forever
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Do you have the brown telescopic stand or the white one? It says on the website that the brown smaller one is better for making corners with but I can't really understand why?

ArcticFox said:
i bought mine from bargain jumps in kelso - google them - they deliver nationwide. I have their wooden ones but they also make polymer stands, and funky fillers - all at a very reasonable price too.

I have 16 uprights (5' high) and I have 12 poles, 3 planks and a gate, I also have a water tray.

Its not quite enough to make a full course - there are plenty of wings for making a grid, but I'm short of poles. fillers are great always, and I plan to replace my wooden stuff with the polymer stuff over the next couple of years. With 16 stands you can make one grid with two uprights, and a spread plus 3 or 4 fences to do related lines etc. sometimes I could do with more uprights, but what i have is a good workable number.

The water tray, gate and planks are good, as are the stands at the moment but I am in the process of replacing the poles - probably could do with 20 in total.

Oh and my poles are 8 foot long as they are space saving too :)

here is a vid of some being used - as my fillers are now falling apart I only use one under the fences instead of the pair but you can get the idea of the space saving side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVeUPCBBjmc was working on trying to get him to land on the right leg - you can see it needs work!
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That's an interesting video to see, thanks. Its making me wonder if I should get more than 8 stands. I do have some blocks already though...

That site looks really good for fillers, they are much more reasonable than the J4J ones
 
We have jump4joy jumps and they have generally worn well. You do have to be careful with the plastic jump cups as it is possible to break them. I think its when the holes on the stand aren't properly lined up. People need to know not to force them. As far as fillers are concerned, we have found the ladder filler really good (like a plank, but slatty). Very flexible - can be used at any height and can be top rail or underneath. Very hard wearing but also easy to move. We use it more than any other filler.
 
We have jump for joy jumps and they're great. We have lots of poles/stands but obviously fillers being so expensive we get a little creative with them. We have one plank which we ordered from JforJ and two double sided fillers. But then we do things like traffic cones, plastic sheets over wooden planks for water trays... We make brush fences by cutting down and we pile it underneath fences... Something we do more often is we get these big wooden boxes that come with things like deliveries (often wine ;)) and we paint them with fluorescent paint in weird patterns. Once a month or so we'll change them. Keep the horses used to seeing weird things. And these are also brilliant and so cheap!: http://jumpstack.co.uk/index.html
 
I have jump for joys. Agree they are hardwearing and am happy with all mine. My only issues - I bought the lightweight poles BAD idea unless you have a really careful horse that loses confidence if it hits a heavier one. I ended up buying wooden poles to use as top rails. My other little niggle is as the 'feet' on the fillers are big it can be a problem if you are only using one filler in the middle of the jump (eg a square oxer you want to jump both ways - one filler in middle each side) as if you want to use a ground pole as well, you either have to have the ground pole rolled out a long way to be in front of the foot, or try and balance it on the foot without it rolling off. Its just a small issue though, and I only really remembered to mention it as I was getting mad with it on thursday when putting a few jumps up in the field for practice jumping on grass! I dont tend to put up full courses at home, I have 8 full wings, 6 uprights, and 4 massive triangular blocks (not JforJ), I did have 7 fillers but one set got left at my trainers years ago I think I may have had another set of uprights that also got left, 1 plank, no idea how many poles, and I think thats everything. I'd plan the different jumps you may want to do in the space you have and see how many wings you need :).
 
Ideally I'd like 20 standards - so two grids' worth of a single and two oxers or a triple plus some single fences as, but that is a "perfect world" scenario. 8, especially with the option of using one standard for two fences, sounds a very good number. if you plan, you can use the same fence in more than one related distance. Obviously anything over that is a bonus!

For poles, I have found some of the plastic ones CAN get brittle, especially in the cold, but I don't buy them so have no idea of the relative sturdiness of the various makes. There are very few empty plastic poles I like for top rails, though - they teach horses to be careless. One option is to put a pole within the pole, though, to weight them, if you don't want to have a set of wooden top rails.

Love the telescopic standards. Very useful.

I really don't like using poles on the ground and would prefer to use planks or, even better, cornered off 4x4s as placing rails. They can double as ground lines, trotting poles etc.

Deeper cups, for sure.

Ditto the suggestion of 8' poles. 10' ones are tricky in a small space and not necessary for jumping at home. One down side of plastic poles is you don't end up with a collection of skinny rails as the years go by. :D
 
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