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We have some of these and will continue to replace all wood jumps with them. West coast sun wrecks wood jumps quickly- wood dries out, paint fades, they look bad fast.
The Burlingham jumps are pricey, but you never ever ever have to paint them again… yay!
They are rotational molded plastic which I think is a bit different than PVC- it’s a bit more flexible. We have some PVC cavaletti that get brittle and lose chunks of themselves from time to time on the square material X part (poles are OK, not so brittle) but the Burlingham stuff is holding up much better.
Prices include freight, so that is a major consideration too.
And maybe the cold (we don’t have cold!) is tougher on the materials than the sun. I would never go back to wood, though.
Burlingham also makes jump poles. They are a wood core encased in some kind of majik plastic tube with ends welded on. They are similar in weight to wood poles, but have stayed bright white and never had one crack/splinter/etc so safer than wood to me.
The ladies at our barn that move jumps around like the lighter-weight standards and panels from Burlingham, too- much easier to handle than wood and no splinters. You can weight bases with sand or water, but it’s not very windy here so we leave them empty: excellent chick jumps!
Worth a look- maybe others will chime in with their experience on Burlingham but I am sold- would not consider using wood again.
