Winter jump building

[Blugal]

Give me ideas for building some simple/cheap new jumps! Can be show jumps or XC jumps or cool fillers.

Ideally:

• easy to carry by one or at most two people
• not too heavy
• low maintenance materials
• if it’s a XC jump, safe enough to move around by tractor and not necessarily need to be re-barred into the ground

For show jumps that look like XC jumps, we have a plywood chevron cut-out, a mock ditch, and two shoulder jumps: shoulder jump|690x388

For XC jumps we have two single small logs (we put standards and rails over them), two large logs in the fencelines, a bank jump with lots of options, and two ditches (small and large). So we’d be looking at building portable fences that don’t have too wide of a face.

Fillers - we have very few. Would like some easy to build and carry, versatile options.

[Jersey_Fresh]

My hubby builds jumps for me. He’s made a coop, brush boxes, gates and panels. Skinnies are easy as are cut outs if you have a jigsaw (I made half circles and painted them as rainbows and hearts).

I’m happy to Pm you photos if you want.

[Jealoushe]

There is a group on Facebook - Horse jump ideas and exercised that has a tone of posts about building all different types of jumps. Worth checking out.

[Blugal]

@Jersey_Fresh

My hubby builds jumps for me. He’s made a coop, brush boxes, gates and panels. Skinnies are easy as are cut outs if you have a jigsaw (I made half circles and painted them as rainbows and hearts).

I’m happy to Pm you photos if you want.

Thanks, photos would be great!

[Blugal]

@Jealoushe

There is a group on Facebook - Horse jump ideas and exercised that has a tone of posts about building all different types of jumps. Worth checking out.

I’ll check that out, thanks!

[Robin]

A very easy filler to make is an artificial flower holder. It is simply an 8’ landscape timber with small pieces of wood (could be 1x2 or even 2x4) about one foot long nailed or screwed to one flat side of the holder on one flat side perpendicular to the landscape timber (so it will sit on the ground stablely) and then holes are drilled at intervals on the top side to hold the flowers. There is a small picture on our farm website under jumps (which are no longer for sale as my DH doesn’t want to make them anymore). The photos might give you ideas so if interested look at dancinghorsehill.com/jumps for suggestions. If you want to try making cavallox I did write up an explanation of making those I can email but I didn’t finish explaining how to assemble them so the explanation is not complete.