Where is everyone buying horse jumps? I have my own facility and need to purchase jumps. I believe I want the keyhole ones vs the normal jump cups. They also need to be somewhat easy to move around. Please advise!
Where are you located? I’d suggest finding someone local to you who makes them. I’ve also made some schooling standards/poles on my own out of 4x4s. It wasn’t too hard and kind of a fun beginner woodworking project. Lots of plans online.
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I build my own. Second Inimitable - buying non-locally will cost a fortune in shipping.
You can order the keyhole tracks from Potter steel or the plastic ones from a couple online shops.
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Also have built my own - pretty simple schooling standards. Need to embark on some fillers (flower boxes, gates, etc.) next so my green bean gets to see something other than plain poles 
Landscape timbers make good relatively inexpensive rails - just paint and go. I don’t mind them being a bit narrower than show jumps - gives more space in my slightly smaller than show size arena, and encourages accuracy. And they’re lighter that way!
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I love landscape timbers for cavaletti and ground poles, especially. If anyone wants to save money, and make a lighter pole, you can make a 4x4 by screwing/nailing together two 2x4s, then ripping off the corner to get the octagon. Can also do that for standards as well.
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We built our own (jumps, boxes, filler, poles) for the farm (well, my husband who is a carpenter did, I just drew the pictures on paper and he made them come to life). We purchased the green grass to cover some poles and boxes from Amazon, Home Depot for lattice for the gates, went to the dollar store for flowers and purchased the plastic key hole jump cups/track from System Fence (in Ontario - I was able to pick it up).https://systemequine.com/page/1/?s=keyhole&post_type=product&type_aws=true
It was a fraction of the price but I really did have someone uber handy to do this. You could always reach out on a local FB page to see if someone builds them or can build them for you in the area. They would cost quite a bit to ship as they can be heavy/bulky depending on what you need.
Some pictures of our jumps:
The stall door standards are my fav as we put the name plates of previous ponies that I have sold or that have passed on. They were made complete with latches and bars as well! A nice touch my hubby did. They are all quite surprisingly light, except for our farm one as it is made out of leftover composite. It weighs a literally ton…but will last forever. We just ordered our logo from a local company and put it on ourselves. It wasn’t that hard at all and did not cost that much.
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Your jumps are lovely but I really love the nice release you give your horse!
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I build my own and also do some for friends. Early on I tried buying jumps but the markup over materials to just build my own similar ones was insanely high. I started simple with schooling standards and as my skills and acquired assortment of power tools grew I went to simple wings and then on ton ever more complex designs.
I love the building but despise painting. Somehow those folks who tell you they love to paint and that all you have to do is build the bare jump for them seem to disappear or be too busy when their jump is built and it is paint time.
Nothing well made of wood is lightweight. The keyhole tracks, simple and magnetic breakaway cups, assembly bolts, nuts, and screws all add on to the pressure treated wood weight. And the 3/4 inch outdoor grade panels for artwork on wings by themselves are hefty,
It would take someone with really, really deep pockets to make me want to build jumps as a business.
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Those stall-door standards are the coolest standards I’ve seen in a long time! 
to your husband.
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@ParadoxFarm - He saw a stall door design at a horse show once and decided that he wanted to make one as well, but he made it just like our stall doors in our barn so I love it even more!
You should see the rolling tack box he’s making for me now (like a Top Jock box, but made out of wood). Its pretty insane. Its just about to go out for paint this weekend and I can’t wait to see it all finished and take it to shows! It is a bit of a beast though and sits about 5’ tall, 5’ long and 28" deep.
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Oh, you definitely need to post pics of it!! So awesome.
Here are a few pictures of the tack box pre paint. We just added the wheels last night and shipped it off to an auto painter. Can’t wait to see it all painted up. We chose dark navy blue (our farm colours are navy with light grey and yellow as the accent).
The saddle rack will be installed on the left hand side and it’s on sliders so it can slide out to be cleaned. My tall boots will fit beside the saddle as well. The upside down looking T thing is for bridles on one side and halters/leads on the other. It’s also on sliders so it can be slid out to be cleaned. There are 3 boxes on soft closing sliders for boots/wraps/helmet etc and on the very top right that you can’t see, is a little slider that will hold my show jackets on and it can be slid out so I can easily grab them. The top part is for blankets and saddle pads etc and a gas shock was added so it easily opens automatically. All latches can be locked as well.
We just added the wheels last night and it stand just below 6’ so it’s huge! But all of my show stuff will fit in it and will be nice to work out of it. I’ll start a new thread when it’s all done
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That is AWESOME! 
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