Show me your homemade xc jumps

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So......I have a spare field and i'd really like a few xc type jumps building. I have a very capable hubby who loves a project and a whole army of diggers, tractors, and general boys toys :-)

however I've not ridden much xc, so am lacking in ideas! If you lot could help me by posting some pics of small simple xc fences It would be muchly appreciated :D

I'm not talking burghley here....just ones that would be quite easy for us to build ourselves.

Over to you :D
 
i'm thinking of doing the same thing as you but i'm waiting for some spare time and money, everything else seems to get in the way :(

i go through horse adverts and copy and paste photos of xc jumps i like the look of. also go on portable xc jump websites. i also bought a great book on amazon guiding you on how to make your own xc jumps. (i think that was the title) comes with tips on how to make them safe and stuff.

try getting hold of old barrels, tyres and wooden telegraph poles. railway sleepers are good too
 
This is the only one I have of the ones at the yard where my girls are. They come out every summer for the yard in-house show. There's also a small table, and an odd sort of water jump, ooh and a squishy log that was a stage prop!

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Thanks guys, I've ordered one of the books of amazon already, just waiting for it to come. Showed hubs some pics on the net last night (he's not horsey at all and didn't have a clue what he'd agreed to) and every fence I showed him he replied with "that's easy". :D I'll remind him of that when he's halfway through building them!!
 
This is one jump we have, its lorry tyres, to car tyres, so tyres at the end, with railway sleepers to jump. We have another just single tyre jump, which is car tyres suspended, a triple bar, which is telegraph poles (i have a picture of it somewhere, ill try dig it out!) and an upright, which was meant to be an arrow head, but Dad didn't work out the dimentions properly, and then didnt have time. We also have had helsinky steps, which was again railway sleepers down the hill, a log pile between the fence line, and a 'raodworks' jump. Which was made of various 'borrowed' products, all bright coloured, with diversion signs, big barriers etc, and 2 single red and white bars tied up as the jump.

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(please excuse my face, it was the first time my 4yr old had jumped xc!)

bexcy-bee x
 
heres a video from last year with the mini XC i rent;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYyHNk0q3O8
the first jump is just some painted barrels, the second is a roller, the blue one to the left is just some flat pannels stuck up (gypsy found them very scary) and a couple of logs ect, another handy one was some under ground drainage pipes, where 3 were stacked up, easy to carry too :D
 
TicTac said:
bexcy-bee..........serious case of pony squishing there! lol
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I know, I know :o I am a bad mummy... Although he is newforest, and doesn't seem to struggle... haha. I seem to have my knees somewhere in the region of my armpits when riding him normally lol. Hence the need to sell him soon though =[

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get a couple of pallets and you can cut them down to whatever size you want, then recycle your christmas tree after christmas by cutting all the branches off and stuffing the pallet with them to make a good brushy jump. then when all the branches shrivel up, up can make a chair type jump with the pallets by laying one on the ground and putting the other one upright at a 90degree angle to the one lying down so it looks like a chair type idea.
we use these for practice for wh and they're great!
also make use of any little banks you may have in the field etc.
happy building!
 
FaldingwoodLivery said:
So......I have a spare field and i'd really like a few xc type jumps building. I have a very capable hubby who loves a project and a whole army of diggers, tractors, and general boys toys :-)

however I've not ridden much xc, so am lacking in ideas! If you lot could help me by posting some pics of small simple xc fences It would be muchly appreciated :D

I'm not talking burghley here....just ones that would be quite easy for us to build ourselves.

Over to you :D
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I have been doing the same thing but i have been useing logs and sticks. Amd just today i have put a couple of old straw bales out to jump. Its an easy jump if you lay them flat then once you have became use to it and more confident then you could flip it onto its side so it makes it a couple inces higher. And it also takes no building at all! Exsept baling it.
 
Whatever you decide to build, make sure any portable fences are properly fixed to the ground so that if your horse hits anything it will not move.
 
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