what jumps do u have??

[sallypops]

if all goes to plan this year i'm gonna be buying some jumps, i wanted to get the poly jump ones cause there light and easy to lift. does anyone know of any other companys which do jumps similar to this??

 

[alicedove]

I love the "safety sytem" ones.

The poly jumps don't go high enough and say if you want a cross pole, they are pretty little, I know what you're thinking about them being practical and everything but my ones have filled up a bit with water and have got pretty heavy, also the colours have faded on the red ones. If you invest in a couple of extra cups for the safety system ones, and any poles you can get hold of, you can have three or four jumps coming off one pole, you know, like an X looking down on it.

I'll put a pic on

 

[alicedove]

The upright on the right is safety system and you can turn those cups around to create another fence coming off say, this side of it.

 

[Morrigan_Lady]

We have poly jumps at our yard and although they are very light and easy to lug about, I really dont like them. They are too light when jumping them! They are easy to knock down and they bounce when they land. Plus when competing, the courses are nearly always wooden, so I like to practise at home with the same as I would at a comp.

 

[sallypops]

i'm not gonna be doing serious competeing or anything, just to have fun with, cause i had been thinking bout gettin the pink and pretty set, but i'm not sure lol

 

[alicedove]

The trouble with the lighter poles too (which I have!) is that the horse learns that it can knock them without banging itself very much and then ends up not clearing many fences properly.

 

[lisan]

I have the polyjumps with wooden poles from a local timber co. poles were £7 each
My previous YO wants to buy them all, but have decided to keep them now as they always come in useful! Oh, and a couple of homemade fillers too!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

Polyjumps are ok but I think they are very expensive. I built my own wings for a fraction of the cost. The poles are easy enough to get hold off as well & are not too expensive. I built gates as fillers & all was done for very little money. To be honest the most expensive thing about the job was the price of galvanised cups. I use tanalised wood for the wings so they are resistant to rot & sprayed them using various coloured wood preservers.

If you are not too practical then speak to a local carpenter, he'll make them for you, just tell him exactly what you want. You'll be surprised that it won't take hime long to make them & the bill won't be massive either.

 

[BeckyD]

I agree. I really think you can't beat wooden uprights and wooden poles. The plastic ones are just too lightweight and flimsy. Admittedly I don't own the most careful jumping horse in the world, but I seem to be forever getting off to stand them back upright again...

 

[WishfulThinker]

We have safety system at the yard. They are quite good, but can be a pain when they lower when you hit them (like they are meant to I guess), or when you obliterate them like I usually do

!!

 

[TGM]

We have a set of Bloks ( http://www.barronrawson.com.au/product/blok.html ) and use sawn-down hop poles as jump poles.

 

[jhoward]

i run a business building show jumps but dont have any made for myself!!! if you would like a price list pm me, all wooden, but very well made and used by riding clubs ect. havnt been beaten on price yet!!!

 

[kerilli]

i have jump4joy, the pleasure of having jumps which won't rot or get chewed is quite amazing. i sold a whole course of wooden jumps to get a few jump4joy ones, and aim to add to them this year. i have some plastic and some wooden poles, but all plastic uprights and fillers.
there's a new company called jazziejumps making plastic ones now, i'm going to go and check them out too, they're pretty reasonable.
don't bother with the multi-cup polyjumps, they go brittle and the cups snap off, very very annoying and expensive.

 

[lucemoose]

Please please (QR) I hope no one uses the lightweight poles, often sold as training or economy poles. When your horses knock them they fly forwards into the legs and if you use them as trotting poles they easily roll out of place and horses can roll on them- tendon injury/trip alert.
By all means use them as filling poles or the front pole of a X but they are stupidly thought out.