I’ve built all mine too. Through necessity. Standards, poles, coop, barrels (I didn’t make these, just collected them!) and “natural rails” (cut out of the bush on our farm- big ones), skinny planks. My favourates are my flower brush boxes. They are just 2’ high, and just under 10 feet wide, they fit under my 10 foot poles. They are a “brush box” frame, but have some chicken wire attached between the slats, and holes drilled in the floor of the box. Instead of brush, there are flowers, actually some quite nice “fake” flowers, tulips, daffodils, etc. I got all the flowers for FREE, people just didn’t want them any more. I got so many of them, that I had to make TWO of these flower brush boxes. Most of them still had the price tags attached to the flowers, they are worth $5 to $10 EACH, and I got several hundred dollars worth of them, to make up the TWO jumps. Sorry, I can’t post pictures here. But they are beauties. The chicken wire half way up the brush box supports them, and the bottoms of the stems are glued into the holes in the base. The worst thing about them is that they are so colourful that the deer that spend the hot summer days sheltering IN my riding arena, try to eat the flowers, pull them out, tear them apart. Because deer are like unicorns, they eat flowers. Keep an eye out always for give aways like these flowers, thrift stores, garage sales, household auctions etc, they are there sometimes. And make great jumps.
