Your ideal showjumps?

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My OH has a background in carpentry and after seeing the frankly ridiculous prices showjumps go for,he's looking into and is sure he make them for less.

So....

What would be your ideal set of showjumps?

We've discussed poles, wings, fillers etc but would you want anything else?

would you want wooden poles?

do you think wooden showjumps have had their day?

would you want holes for cups or the safety cups?

Any ideas, feedback would be greatfully recieved!

Thank you
 
I think wooden poles have there advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage being that, if your horse hits the pole it will hurt more than a plastic one and hopefully they won't want to touch it with there little tootsies again!!!!!

The disadvantage being is there VERY heavy, and if your putting up a course of jumps it could be very tiring and time consuming.

I think the safety cups because of the added safety side of them, I think it might attract more people to want to buy them.

I think also making some of the jumps quite innovative and colorful, so to train your horse never to spook at a show jump ever again. People are forever trying to make a jump scary to see if there horse/horses will look and spook at it, to hopefully have the effect that no show jump is scary to the horse, as they would of seen and jumped it all before at home !!!!!!! :]
 
lightweight stands are essential- a lot of wooden wings are far too heavy.

i have poles from TFM which are quite light and i much prefer them to stupid, flimsy plastic ones that imo teach a horse to tap out fences.

with regards to fillers we use barrels, tyres, gates, plastic sheeting as ditches etc as fillers are way too expensive.

i bought 6 pairs of wooden wings with 10 poles for £150 and my stands are lovely and lightweight- we have since bought more poles but still far cheaper than the equivalent in plastic and much better imo!
 
Ideally I would have wooden as they last so much better and wooden poles too although only 8ft in length as it makes them lighter to move around, but your horse can still feel them and it means you can fit more jumps into a standard sized arena. I would also want planks too although I wouldn't bother with safety cups tbh.
 
wooden poles, water trays, planks, hanging fillers with interesting patterns on etc. if he's not horsey just make sure he knows not to make fillers which might trap a foot if a horse stops... it sounds obvious but i've seen a lot that would have, incl old-fashioned shark's teeth on xc courses. wings need to be very bottom heavy so they won't blow over. i don't bother with safety cups apart from back rail of big parallels, fwiw. wooden poles are great, i have a few plastic for baby horses, lucinda green-type excercises but i prefer the wooden ones.
 
I have totally gone off wood

I don't mind it for rustic poles, but its a pain having to paint wooden poles.

I've got plastic poles that are heavier than my wooden ones, so never had a problem with the horses getting lazy with them.

I use jump4joy jump stands and probably wouldn't ever buy anything else, they are so light and nice to use and don't blow over even in gale force wind.

I also love the jump4joy safety cups, have definitely stopped me and the horses hitting the deck on at least 2 occasions. However if you go for FEI keyhole track the safety cups retail at around £16 each. You can buy the jump4joy ones for £5.50 each, so its a no brainer on which safety cups to buy for me!
 
I think that wood is still best for wings and poles. Light wings are easier to move, but more likely to blow over in the wind.

You can get safety cups that fit to wings with holes, so it's down to personal choice / cost as to whether you have holes or the rack type thingy.
 
thanks everyone for your input, really helps us with sorting all this out. eventually we are hoping to have some to sell but we want to do our research properly first..
 
I would have agreed till recently that there are pro's and con's with wood v plastic however with the amount of rain we have been having recently, I took the plunge and bought some wood-filled plastic jumps from Jumpsonline. They are much better priced than Jump4Joy and the poles are woodfilled as standard so when I did my sums it seemed like a worthwhile investment if i don't have to paint my old wooden ones and keep dragging in all in under cover when the weather in bad. The stands have heavy metal feet so no issues of blowing over in the wind and the horses give the poles lots of respect due to the weight. Bit of an investment think it will pay off over the years to come!
 
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