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Hunter/Jumpers prefer a more classic-style fence that’s collapsible. In the hunter ring, the jumps are oftentimes natural colors and decorated with foliage. In the jumper ring, you’ll find fences that are painted in bright colors and flashy. While the hunter jumps are normally made of wood, the jumps in the jumper arena are normally made of lightweight plastic to easily fall.And I would recommend painting as many rails that you have room for on your stands. Even if you are only needing 2 rails, but you have 5 primed and ready to go, you may as well paint them. Patience Is The Key

I like having my rails be 8 feet long. They are easier to move and work better in my very small riding area. I have a somewhat larger area where I have set up my hunter jumps, but it still is not very large. Champion-Outdoor Charles Owen Chatham Cotswold Raw Crafty Ponies Crew Clothing Elico Equilibrium Equestrian Equine America Firefoot Foran Gallop Again, when painting your rails, it is best to have them lifted off the floor and around waist height while you are painting. I love the stands I made. They are very helpful for all aspects of jump building. Ok, so you have figured out what you are going to put your timbers on, great! First we need to sand the wood. You want to use a lower grit sand paper, because sometimes these timbers can be very rough. The lower grit sandpaper makes fast work of rough edges. When I am sanding, I sand all of the wood first, and then move them off of the stands.The strength in our poles does not come from the wood inside but from the superior plastics and fusion technology used. This makes our poles virtually unbreakable. We are therefore able to offer all weights of pole from Super Heavyweight to hollow Lightweight in different bands of colour as well as single colour. And once the finish coat of paint is done in a period of 2-3 days, then I still have 2 days left of the work week that if I wanted to add stripes, I can do this too! Ready, Set……Done! Airowear Ancol Ariat At Home in the Country Barbour Barrier Bartleby Battles Bob Martin Carhartt Carr Day Martin Champion

Elico Hotline Electric Fencing LeMieux Lincoln Perry Equestrian PolyJumps Red Gorilla Shires Equestrian Stubbs Unbranded All Brands When you are painting with oil based paints, they take longer to dry than latex. Keep that in mind when you are painting because all your components will need to completely dry in between coats of paint. The ends of our poles are colour coded so that you can easily identify the different weights of each pole. Lightweight Poles are hollow polymer and can bend in heat/sun. To counteract this simply rotate the pole 180 degrees. The Middleweight, Heavyweight and Super Heavyweight Poles are weighted with wooden inserts encased in plastic, which is completely sealed off from external degrading factors. A lot of people will attempt to use PVC pipe for poles, and I can understand why. They have the ‘look’ that we are trying to achieve with our homemade horse jumps. They are the perfect size, and they just look like they are perfect for poles. But, really they aren’t. PVC pipe is not intended to be used as poles for horse jumps, so please don’t be tempted to use them. Where To Find Horse Jump Rails After you have allowed the primer to dry, now it is time for the finishing paint. I prefer to use oil based paint for every component of my jumps. The oil based paint provides a very protective finish to the wood which will withstand being outside in the elements. You can use latex based paint, but it won’t last. Spend a little bit of extra money and buy oil based paint.

The primer paint is necessary, so please, don’t skip it. The primer helps the paint adhere evenly to the wood, and provides the base coat. In fact, when I have been in a hurry and just wanted some white rails, or cavaletti, I apply two coats of primer, and then I have rails, poles, or cavaletti that look somewhat finished. I will typically use Rustoleum, because it is readily available almost everywhere. When I want a more custom color I will go to Sherwin Williams. It is more expensive, but sometimes you just need some different colors, and thankfully Sherwin Williams has many colors to choose from. Horse jump rails are one of the most important pieces to consider when you take on the project of making your own horse jumps. And of all of the pieces of building your own horse jumps, the rails seem to be the most difficult part. Finding ready made round rails that are long enough to be used as horse jump poles confounds me. I am always looking for something affordable that I can use for poles. And then in the future if I decide I want to paint the rails, the primer coat is already done! Oil Based Paints for Horse Jumps We use specially formulated polymer and colourants which are all UV protected to the highest levels so the colours will not fade and the plastic will not degrade.