Gamebird
Well-Known Member
Having very quickly read most of this thread I'm with Tabledancer on this one (again
).
My husband came and put some poles up for me on Sunday morning, which he has been more inclined to do recently due to a change in circumstances, but he's only really done it 2 or 3 times and isn't really interested.
On nice summer evenings there are often a couple of people sitting on the patio of the YOs house drinking wine who SHOULD notice if I fell off but that's about it. I have no family within 200miles and my friends are so flat out with their own work/horses/life that I wouldn't dream to ask. Apart from that I'm usually riding at very unsocial hours. If I didn't jump on my own I couldn't continue eventing or BSJA as I wouldn't be able to put the homework in that I need to compete.
I generally put up a 2 stride double, I make all my oxers parallel with a ground line on both sides so that I can jump everything both ways and I only use the plastic poles for groundlines, never for top poles as they fall too easily. I usually put one fence on the diagonal too so that you can loop around and keep jumping things on both reins without having to stop and start all the time. I angle the 2nd part of the double too so that it counts as a single fence as well.
My husband came and put some poles up for me on Sunday morning, which he has been more inclined to do recently due to a change in circumstances, but he's only really done it 2 or 3 times and isn't really interested.
On nice summer evenings there are often a couple of people sitting on the patio of the YOs house drinking wine who SHOULD notice if I fell off but that's about it. I have no family within 200miles and my friends are so flat out with their own work/horses/life that I wouldn't dream to ask. Apart from that I'm usually riding at very unsocial hours. If I didn't jump on my own I couldn't continue eventing or BSJA as I wouldn't be able to put the homework in that I need to compete.
I generally put up a 2 stride double, I make all my oxers parallel with a ground line on both sides so that I can jump everything both ways and I only use the plastic poles for groundlines, never for top poles as they fall too easily. I usually put one fence on the diagonal too so that you can loop around and keep jumping things on both reins without having to stop and start all the time. I angle the 2nd part of the double too so that it counts as a single fence as well.