Budget Equestrian
DIY projects for barn, tack room and even your home
Building Tall Flower Boxes I finally have found the time to get building some pretty big sets of horse jumps, and I am so excited! I have been wanting to build two complete sets of jumps, one hunter course, and one jumper course, for some time now. And I have drawn out a lot …
Weekly Video Wrap Up With the holiday season in full swing, and planning for a work trip to Orlando, my video production has been lacking this past week. But because of everything else I have going on, I have come to realize it isn’t really necessary for me to upload 3 videos a week. True, …
#Goals It’s a new month which means I have new goals. I don’t reserve my goals for new years, I continually have goals throughout the year. And maybe it’s because I have more down time during the winter, but this month is no exception to my goals. In fact, I think this month something has …
Building A Coop For A Horse Jump A long time ago I had made a video of how I went about building a coop for a horse jump. And I had someone ask me for the instructions of the build, and I thought I could point them to my blog post about it. But after …
How To Build Cavaletti I have had a lot of people ask me to make a video showing how to build cavaletti. And I have to be honest, I had seen a lot of different ways to do this, and I just didn’t think I could do it. That is until I saw I …
Making Ground Poles Today is a little bit different. We are taking a break from being in the saddle, and we are going to be giving your horse a well-deserved day off too. Today we are going to be making ground poles. I love days like today. Because today we are going to be building …
Building Your Own Horse Jumps If you have thought about buying a set of horse jumps, you might have changed your mind when you saw the actual price for a set of jumps. Let’s face it, horse jumps are expensive. But you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on pre-built jumps. You can build …
Day 6 of Building a Set of Horse Jumps Here we are at day 6 of building your own set of horse jumps. Can you believe what you have accomplished so far? And like I said before, even if it has taken you longer than 6 days, it doesn’t matter! What matters is you are …
Day 5: Creating Raised Rails If you have gotten this far, congratulations! And it doesn’t matter if you have done it in 5 days or 5 weeks. The important thing to remember is that you did it!!!! You should be proud of what you have accomplished thus far! Can you believe what you have been …
Day 4; Building the Gate Here we are at Day 4 of building your own set of horse jumps! How is it going for you so far? Have you started to build your jumps yet? I hope so! Today is all about building a gate for your set of horse jumps. And let me show …
Day 3; Building Rails for Your Horse Jumps Here we are at day 3 already! How is it going for you so far? If you have been following this series, so far you would have gotten all of your materials, and created the standards for your jumps. Pretty exciting don’t you think? And day 3 …
DAY 2 of Building a Set of Horse Jumps Welcome back for day 2! Today we are going to be building the standards. I like to do the standards all together from beginning to cut all the way through assembling the standards. I suppose I am very methodical now in the way I assemble a …
