Homemade jumps!!!

[jump*for*joy]

it saves a WHOLE lot of money if you make your own jumps!!!!! I use hay bales, but there are a lot of stuff you can use!!!!! anyone? suggerstion?? :)

[horse__obsessed]

erm you can nail the planks from wooden pallets together and then paint them for wings

logs and ditches out hacking
collect branches and trim bit off for poles
carboard boxes for wings
chairs fro wings
the fence on an outdoor arena for one wing :D

[loser88]

Traffic cones, lakes, puddles, water-filled-ditches, anoraks, wellington boots, feed buckets- anything really!! :)

[Dina]

I use buckets,tyres and stumps as my stands and then for poles I use old fenceposts.
Also I sometimes make jumps out of branches and wooden planks are good as well.

[KateWooten]

I find that hay bales make the most expensive jumps ever ! It would cost me $12 to put together a one-bale high jump 3 wide ...plus cost and time to go get them and put them in place ...then within 2 days they'd be eaten, rotten, wet and trampled to pieces and I'd have to start over.

[jenren!!]

Almost anything, as long as it isnt dangerous in any way.

Jenny xx

[april]

back in my childhood memories.... we used to use braken bales on the hils when the farmers had harvested it and left them out. you used to ride across the common and see all the random bales put into jumping lanes. the farmers never used to mind actually, as it made it a bit easier for them to collect them rather than trundling around miles of commonland collecting up single bales at a time.

( the braken bales were used as bedding for cows in the big sheds over winter!)

[¿M€®¥ñ™]

Or just walk 5 houses down to the local pony club and use their jumps :D .

[Astropoof]

To get my daughters pony used to "spooky" jumps I am going use some plastic flowers (donated by Domane's mum) and old plant pots and stick those under some straight poles. We also went to XC event last year and the mini class had plastic toys and garden ornamounts under the jumps - all very cheap and cheerful

[jenren!!]

We have some oil drums and some of those plastic things which look like fillers that they use in roadworks.

Jenny xx

[domane]

Traffic cones, lakes, puddles, water-filled-ditches, anoraks, wellington boots, feed buckets- anything really!! :)
Have you really jumped anoraks and wellington boots??? :D Classic!!!!

[xXSundanceBayXx]

foam pipe covers
thick plastic pipe
scaffolding poles
tyres
to make a filler, hang a pole up as a straight and put a towel/blanket over
logs
bush
mounds of mud
bamboo canes
chairs
benches
doors

[Emerald_city]

We have some oil drums and some of those plastic things which look like fillers that they use in roadworks.

Jenny xx

where can you get those oil drums from ? lol i dunno where 2 start looking :p

[jenren!!]

Erm...well we get ours from our farm because half of it is filled with lorries and junk where the farm lads do work with trailers and wood etc. Not sure where you can get them from really, how about construction yards or junk yards? Hmm

Jenny xx

[Emerald_city]

okies thanks ! ill see if anywhere has any lol ! we used 2 have them at ourold yard but we were at livery then now ere have our own stables so not gt ne jumps etc yet :rolleyes: :D

[Herbie's mummy]

Bin bags filled with stram :)
milk crates :)
chairs :)
cones :)
Those road work things, they are red and white and make really good fillers :D
Hay bales
Oli drums and paint them funky colours :)
Tarpoulains (BIG sheets of plastic) make a water tray!
Rubber water buckets, filled with water inbetween a spread :D and rubber duckies!
Old rugs, blankets
Old shed door (totally nail FREE) use as a big filler.
plants :)
Bushes for bulfinches :)

will getmy brain working a bit more later lol :D

[Cheeky]

Milk creates
Stumps
Logs
Poles
Tarp
Boxes (cardboard) - makes the jump wider :p
Plant pots (plastic)
.. etc

Then .. to help get 'anti spook' .. we also put around the arena, or next to/attachted to the jumps:
Balloons (Thats interesting :p)
Flowers/pots
Brollies (the big, bright colourful ones are the best)
Plastic bags
Tarp laid out, and hung to make noise (and ride over)
Prams
Large pieces of white, or coloured cardboard

.. Even though these items arent actually IN the jumping arena at comps etc.. (though you never know when you'll see a ferral pram..), its great to get them used to working around it :p

[jowyles]

We use beer crates, oil drums, small plastic drums, cones. bins and occasionally breeze blocks for extra wings beer crates are the best and the small plastic drums! IF you see a tree broken down nick some of the longer thinner branches the are good! We have a massive filler made out of chip board too. I used to be more adventurous with my jumps but now they seem too scary (and i cant be botherd to put them away!!

[CER1389]

A certain DIY shop which sounds like BBQ sells thin plastic drain pipe type poles. Much thinner and lighter than normal poles and drainpipe. There about £1 each and really long.

We brought 5 of those, painted them using tester pots and then jumped over them. Just balanced them on chairs, feed bins, tack boxes etc. Coats and jackets as fillers etc. Simple! They got a little bit bent and things, but it was good because they bent rather than slid if they got trodden on, so they didn't spook the horses. Also being light, they were easy to carry around and knocked very easily.

Branches and things make good fillers too

[AlexEventer]

I use traffic cones as wings, and paint wooden fence posts to use as poles. Also I once made a log jump with the fence posts.

[RobaDob]

we use....oil barrels..posts on the outside of the arena...big logs...stuff when you go out hacking....mostly everything!!! lol!!:D

[joey_olop]

To get my daughters pony used to "spooky" jumps I am going use some plastic flowers (donated by Domane's mum) and old plant pots and stick those under some straight poles. We also went to XC event last year and the mini class had plastic toys and garden ornamounts under the jumps - all very cheap and cheerful


I like that idea, may have to do that myself :)

[*Lizzie*]

Where do you get traffic cones from?

Do you just take them from the road when no ones looking :confused: :o :D

cheers :)

[Dina]

I found my traffic comes in a ditch.

[ClaireBear_nz]

I've made a few jumps out of things I found around the house, or just inexpensive things from DIY shops...

1) A brush fence of about 90cm, made from the remnants of an old gate re-nailed and put with feet on. I made a sort-of box thing and stuffed it full of manuka branches, which made a very good brush. I need to put more in it actually...

2) A gate I found and nailed extra bars on so her feet can't go through it. I managed to saw my own finger open doing this and I still have the scars. Not pretty.

My next project is going to be a piece of plywood painted with neon pink and green stars or stripes :eek: I don't really know what Sparky will make of it to be honest! I'll have to make my mum get the spraypaint or the shop people will think I'm some kind of teenager rebel :D

[ANN H]

OH got me four lengths of black plastic drainpipe from a builder's yard. I put yellow sticky tape round them at 6" intervals, filled them with sand, and we rest the ends on beer crates at various heights when we're jumping! Seems to work.

[ImaLittleBoston]

Teehee, Random fallen little trees with branches off. Milk crates. tires.

[fishiz3434]

Almost anything, as long as it isnt dangerous in any way.

Jenny xx

I'll be using the logs from my block when we get it cleared for the house...if it's ever cleared!

but i saw once a silly little kid and her mom were jumping wire tied to metal poles dug in the ground...i checed it out and if either horse hit one it would have been horrible! i told them they should stop and could take a few trees off our block to jump and they didn't know it was dangerous to jump trusted wires!:eek:

[Lot1983]

Where do you get traffic cones from?

Do you just take them from the road when no ones looking :confused: :o :D

cheers :)

Yup! By the time I was a student I had no interest in nicking them as had over a dozen at the stables, also great for doing bending in and out of! I even get my mum used to pulling the car over a weekends so I could half inch them.

What about the cardboard rolls from carpet shops, may give them to you for free, you can paint and varnish like a proper pole, just try not to leave outside all year!