Joe Anne Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 What is the best source or web site to get specs for building my own "backyard" agility equipment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLW Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 If you go to www.cleanrun.com and into the store I think they have a book with specs. Also there's a yahoo group for building your own equipement - not sure what it's called but you could seach yahoo groups and I'm sure it'd come up. Also, www.agilityability.com might have a section on building your own equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Anne Posted April 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Thanks, I will check them out.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat's Dogs Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 For all of my homemade stuff (jumps, teeter, dogwalk, aframe, weave poles, table, and chute) I went to the organazation home page to find the specs. If you are going to make some mini stuff (I did) you can take those sizes and just scale them down - it will still give you the proportions that you need. NADAC's stuff USDAA's stuff AKC's stuff (pdf file) If you want some other org. go to the home page and usually under "rules and regulations" they will have equipment specs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccnnc Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Hey JoeAnne... there's a do-it-yourself agility group on Yahoo... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agility-equipment they have lots of "how-to's" in the file section... hope that helps... edited to add.... NOOOO... that site is NO indication that I'm moving back to the agility world... I have created a PVC jungle in the side pasture for my dear wife and her zoom-zoom dawgs, tho. Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob d Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 As many here might recall, last year I built a fairly full set of agility equipment - teeter, jumps, tire jump, plank, weave poles - and Sparc uses them (multiple times) every day - still. (from last May) Nearly everything has broken at least once - I used 1/2" and 3/4" PVC for various things, and I can't actually think of a piece of equipment that has not been repaired a few times. WInter winds are quite severe here, but Sparc uses his agility stuff year round of course. I'm just suggesting that if you use PVC - and I think it is the way to go for lots of parts - use 3/4 or 1" PVC - it may look like too much, but really, over time you'll need it. (As I recall, 1/2" and 3/4" was suggested) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaisingRiver Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 a lot of people sell agility equip they made on ebay. many times you can read their descriptions to get an idea of what you want to make yours out of. they will list what sizes of pvc etc to use. just search for agiliy on ebay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Lady Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Bob d - great pictures, I love the one with the frisbee, how do you do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob d Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Hi Dog Lady, Thanks. I'm guessing you mean the sequence shot - the camera shoots at 8.5 frames a second - I clicked for a catch - then I assembled all the photos as layers in PhotoShop - aligned them, and then used a common background, and used the jumping sparc from each layer. That was the VERY short a simple explanation - I have been doing that sort of sequence for a while, and I can get into way too much detail - I'm hoping that will get you started.. Don't want to really hi-jack this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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