Have any of you made jump cups like this?

[RegentLion]

Thanks for all the feedback! One reason that we’d consider doing this is we have a LOT of scrap wood/stuff laying around from various building projects, and if you’re starting at 0 jump cups and need a lot, this is an affordable way to start while you build up your metal stash. Or plastic, depending on your personal safety views.

I like the ideas too, of putting a block on the back of the standard to hang the ropes off of, and also the idea of a wooden “dowel pin.”

Wonder how well the blocks hold the jump rail?

[Jealoushe]

@wildlifer;7671568

OMG, THANK YOU!

Seriously, how many metal jump pins has EVERYONE jumped over the years??? Horses being horses, they are far better at impaling themselves on things like the entire standard. Or an oddly angled piece of hay string. eyeroll

oh ya, my post about a safer option for horses is worthy of an eye roll…give me a break.

Maybe plastic isn’t safer, but it’s worth looking into which is…can’t believe how snarky people get over suggesting trying something safer than a huge metal bolt.

FYI - I am the broke, ambitious driven person - I built a 4 level x country course with things I found on my farm and junk donated from friends. Just because you are the above, doesn’t mean you can’t build things safely.

[KBC]

@Jealoushe;7672667

Maybe plastic isn’t safer, but it’s worth looking into which is…can’t believe how snarky people get over suggesting trying something safer than a huge metal bolt.

Is it snark? I mean seriously I am old, and when I was jumping all jump cups were metal, skewered to the upright with a bloody great metal pin. I am all for safety, never ride without my vest and helmet these days, and not jumping any more, but IDK, trying to figure out the odds of actually getting damaged by the bolt at the back of the fence…looking fairly small to me.

I am actually cringing more at thinking back at using milk crates as jump standards, something we routinely did, now that was downright dangerous!

[wildlifer]

Exactly, KBC – I am well-known for my Safety Nazi ways, I won’t even let someone on my property without a helmet and my comment about hay string was due to a certain unnamed TB who takes great care in making sure he never has to work more than 10 days in a row…with much creativity (the pics on my latest blog post are quite impressive).

I feel ancient most of the time, but at 35, in the grand scheme, not so much, but yes, I never even saw a non-enormous-steel-pin on a jump cup until perhaps 8 years ago (hey, I don’t got to fancy shows that much, LOL). So my eyeroll was not AT safety, obviously (well, generally it would be obvious, but then there is COTH), just the misplaced horror given the larger perspective.