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Seems like you would need a lot of stuff and some experience in woodshop, but I've got an image of it and I'm 11 >__>

I think you would just need a ton of wood so you can make a board stand up by itself and you could drill jump cup holes in it and stuff, but otherwise I would just stack up some crates or something to your height.

Edit: Your height of jumping, that is >__> xD

Yeah, what she said.


And if you can find empty 50 gallon drums, they make good jumps too, laid on their round sides... Put two end to end, and just be sure to have them braced to the ground so they don't roll if the horse hits them going over. But most horses will clear them easily.

You can find pallets (those wood flats used for stacking boxes) behind shopping centers, and most are happy for you to haul them away. You can stack two pallets on end (they have a long side and a shorter side, so do the shorter side first) and fasten them together with some cheap boards (or use one pallet to take apart for the boards) and brace them on the ground. These will be solid jumps, and won't come down easily. But they look solid to the horse, and they usually will try hard to clear them. They'd be about 3 feet tall, I think... I'll go measure mine when it's daylight and edit this with the actual dimensions.

Old tires can be strung on one heavy board or a 4x4 and used as a jump at any height, depending on how you set up the ends/standards. You can rest the rail on a couple hay bales. I would stake them into the bales to keep them steady.

If you can get enough pallets, you can take them apart for the wood and make a chicken coop, or any kind of wood jump. Or, heck, you can slant 2 pallets against 2 more pallets to make a chicken coop. (It's a triangle.)

You can paint any of these, wood, barrels or even the tires.

Fallen branches can be sort of woven together to make a jump.

OK, I'm done.

for now

Yeah, old hay bales that aren't good enough to feed work great as jumps. Also if the horse hits 'em, they kind of absorb the shock, unlike hitting a solid rail or something.

I've used lawn chairs and old PVC pipes. rofl

You can make small adjustable jump wings like this, if you can do some simple woodwork:
For two wings, take two identical pieces of wood (about 1m or more in length, 20~cm in width, 1-2 cm thick. You also need thinner lengths of wood (2x2 cm in cross-section, and somewhere near a metre or two of this).

Cut the thinner wood into pieces about 10-12cm long and nail/glue them onto the bigger planks to form V shapes - these are the cups where the poles/branches/whatever you have will sit, so make sure there's enough space between the Vs for a pole to fit. Leave the bottom 10 or 15 cm of the planks without Vs, as you'll be pushing some of this part into the ground to make it stable (or building rock/whatver supports around this part if the ground is too hard to push it into). It'll end up looking something like this.

That's done! You can also add a horizontal strip of the thinner wood to the top BACK of the wing - this way you can 'hook' it onto the side of an arena or a fence instead of digging it into the ground on one side.

You can make these wings longer than a metre, but then you'll need to push them a bit further into the ground to keep them stable than the shorter wings here.

for a quick jump thats not as messy as hay bales, Put two barrels side by side, then take some rails (if you have any) or some large wooden beams, and put them as a large vertical, or a medium cross pole.