I need ideas for a safe, easy to build and economical tie pole/patience pole. The pre-made ones sell for over $1,000.
Has anyone made one? How did you do it and are you happy with it?
Thanks!
What is a patience pole?
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It is literally a pole in the ground you tie the horse to teach them “patience”. Typically has a swivel top so the horse can’t get hung up on the line.
Maybe a big, stout tree trunk, or a tie line situation?
We used a heavy duty wheel bearing mounted on a heavy duty steel pole. I can’t post pictures to COTH, sorry! It cost about $100 including a lot cement in the ground.
Its been up for about 12 years now and still perfectly functional!
The colt starter I have used just had a large eye bolts attached high on the arena posts. He leaves new horses tied inside the arena while he works the other horses. They can’t go all the way around the pole because of the arena wall. The bolts are pretty high too, I really had to stretch to get one of the horse’s tied. But I guess that’s the point, the horse’s can’t get leverage to pull back. (That side of the arena does have paw holes so you have to stay away from the rail even when no horses are there)
I saw this, thought it was genius.
A very large ball for a trailer hitch (2 5/16) inserted into the top of a 8" diameter leftover chunk of telephone pole. The pole was in the ground 3 ft, and above the ground about 8 ft.
A round heavy duty ring was trapped between the top of the post and the ball.
A heavy duty threaded quick link connected a piece of logging chain to the ring.
The horse could go round and round it’s pole.
May be it was this ball www.etrailer.com/Balls/Convert-A-Ball/900b.html?feed=npn&gclid=CM3MiaDDjsoCfdcSgQodKY0JVg
We call it “The Pole of Shame”. 
We put a big screw eye high up in a post in the back of the stall, not facing the aisle. Then attached a short rope to it, just short enough that the horse wouldn’t be able to get a leg over it if they were being a jerk. We always called it a ‘thinking post’. I pulled the buckets off the wall so there was nothing to get hung up on.
