Home made water tray

[ann-jen]

I'm thinking of making a water tray to practice over at home. I guess I just need to buy and suitable sized piece of wood and paint it blue - even my DIY skills will probably stretch to this - LOL.
Can anyone give me any advice what sort of wood I need - I mean anything to light weight might move on a windy day but anything too heavy will make it difficult to manoeuvre (we have to put all the jumps away after every use).
Just wondered if anyone had made their own jumps out there that could give me some ideas/advice.

 

[Enfys]

Try this, less hassle. No paint involved

Bright blue tarpaulin/sheeting and just hold it down at the edges with two jump poles, you can alter the width as you like then and it's simple to move. If you can get your horse jumping that (start off narrow?) then a water tray in a competition will be a doddle. Have fun

 

[H-J]

Our yard owner made us a load of new jumps and fillers and a water tray, it is about 6 foot long and about 2ft deep, and it is norma wood you would use to make fillers and we panted it bright blue its great!!

 

[murphyboywoody]

Ive made my own too!! out of a large piece of ply wood and some blue polythene and it works a treat!!!

 

[shandy133]

i just use a piece of blue plastic, like Enfys we changed to a black piece and it was like id put a lion underneath. so perhaps if you use wood, paint it two diff colours? have fun DIY

 

[ann-jen]

Thanks everyone - thats given me a few ideas - the 2 colours is a good idea - water tray on one side and ditch on the other perhaps.

 

[mlm]

i use a large blue snow sledge which is brilliant. you can actually fill with water if you want . bought it in a toy shop

 

[H-J]

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i use a large blue snow sledge which is brilliant. you can actually fill with water if you want . bought it in a toy shop

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That sounds like a very good idea!!