Agility Equipment

[PossumCorner]

We made jumps and weavers from PVC including the supports, wings, the lot. It is not "that" cheap if you get all the correct T-piece and 90deg angle fittings etc but will last for ever and is so light to move around or store. The full directions/specs we found on a South African agility website when doing an "agility equipment dogs" sort of yahoo/google search. It has all the specs, materials plans etc for Dogwalk, A-Frame and see-saw as well. We got all the materials then sidelined into Flyball so they are not built (except for the jumps/weavers). I've thrown out the URL but it is sure to be there still.

Clints Warehouse sometimes get good length dog tunnels in their pet section that my little Rotti has no problem running through. But they sell out fast. A dearer indoor solution is the cheap round laundry "baskets" nylon on plastic spring-wire frame (Clints or $2+ shops). Cut the bottom fabrics out and shoe-lace the top and bottom wires to make a tunnel: sometimes they are on "special". They collapse down for easy storage, and again a lab-size dog can do it easy.

[Cheyenne_Fury]

Thinking on what Erny said about 44 gallon drums, I wouldn't be included to use a metal one, but I have horses and you can get the same size drums in really hard plastic. The same as the plastic wheely bins are made out off. All you would have to do is cut the end of (could do with a electric round saw or even a hand saw) and then just make sure that the edges weren't too sharp but filing them down with a rasp. You can pick up different sizes barrels from all stockfeed places. This being said I think that I am going to go home tonight and try this out for myself. I have heaps of barrels and home from the horses and am sure I can find one that I can do without. These wouldn't be too expensive, probably around $20-$30 for the smaller kind and up to around $50 for a larger one. Just an idea

Anne

[Guest Tiggy]

Thanks for your replies everyone. I saw some great stick in the ground weave poles on Ebay in the USA but the postage would be too expensive. I'll have a go at making my own but I'm not to good at making things. I would love to start my own Agility shop that stocked all the equipment and everything else to do with Agility.

[smisch]

I have a small set of equipment, old broom handels over garden edging, an ikea play tunnel and several tomato stakes, curtain rods are great as well!