Since Shelby needs more practice with agility, we're also making some jumps today.
This is what you guys are gonna need. We went to Home Depot and got just what they had at our Home Depot.
There's a few pieces that I would have rather had other pieces of, but we're gonna make this work.
You need two 10 foot PVC pipes, one inch diameter, two PVC crosses,
which are these right here. You need two of those. You need six caps, which these are the caps.
You need two PVC tees, which these are the tees.
And what these are gonna do, we're gonna turn these into jump cups.
And then, you need two three quarter inch PVC elbows. And the reason we need these, is because
technically, we needed a tee that had a pipe that came out of the top, but our Home Depot didn't have any.
So, if you can instead get a tee with a pipe coming out of the top, you won't need this.
Because actually, we have to use this and put it in here and make a pole come out the top.
We're gonna make it work though. We're gonna show you guys how to make some PVC jump.
To make the jump cups, what we need to do, is we need to cut these into two little clips.
Jamie's cutting them right now and when he's all done, I'll show you what the clips look like.
Now, the first cut Jamie made into this piece was across the back here.
And that makes it so that we can clip this on to the actual PVC pipe.
Now, it's gonna cut it across right there.
Now, this is a jump cup and what this is gonna do, when we get all the jump put together,
this is gonna clip on to here and the bar, the jump bar that goes across, will sit in here.
That way, if your dog hits the bar and knocks it down, they're not gonna get hurt.
The bar will fall instead of jamming them in the leg or something crazy.
And these go at specific heights, depending on the height of your dog.
And I just feel the need to show that Shelby is asleep.
Shiloh is asleep and Oakley heard me talking and decided to wake up.
All the other dogs are asleep.
Now, this is just a reminder. We are not building these jumps to standards.
We're just building them for practice jumps, just because Shelby needs to practice.
But, so we're getting away with only using two 10 foot...
10 foot PVC poles.
What we did is the first 10 foot pole, we cut...
These are gonna be the two side poles and they're 36 inches each and then these are gonna be our feet for the base.
Like you see on the weave poles over there and these are one foot each.
If you add all that together, you get 10 feet and then we're gonna take our next pole,
section of 10 feet pole and we're gonna cut it into three sections of 40 inches each and these are gonna be our crossbars.
That's what we're gonna do right now.
Now, these are the pieces that I was telling you, if you guys can get one that has...
one coming out here, here and at the top,
it'd be a little bit better than what we ended up having to do.
If you had this circle coming up the top.
Yeah, but we didn't want to have to wait, so we bought this.
And other ways.
And that will make it able to come off the top.
Come on. Yeah, so that's our side pole and then the feet will go on that also. So we'll put together our two side poles.
Cap on one end.
Another cap.
Other side.
And we got one leg.
I gotta put together a second leg.
Two caps for the top. Yeah, the top.
That's a leg. Yep, other caps. You need one cap on each top.
That's why you need six. You need caps on the top, you need caps on the feet.
So now we got two legs. Now, these are the bars that are gonna go across the top.
Because we had to modify this a little bit,
this, one of these bars is actually gonna have to get cut and it'll be a little bit shorter than the rest.
But like I said, they're just for practice, so it should work out just fine.
So we ended up having to cut off four or five inches or so of that bottom base piece and that's gonna help keep
the jump stable. Six inches.
Six inches. And you'll notice,
like I said, because we had to buy this other piece here, if you notice this tending to like turn,
and it does turn kind of easily,
which can be a good thing for storage.
If you don't want it to turn, you can always run a screw through there or go ahead and use the PVC glue and glue it
together.
And what we did just there is we actually measured out the height.
This is 26 inches, 24 inches, 22 inches, 20 inches,
18, 16, just so we have our height measurements. Because depending on if I start doing
agility trials with Miss Shelby, it'll depend on which ones we go to, which height she actually has to jump at.
There's the jump. Now all we need is colored tape to finish it. What do you think of that?
Shelby, here! Go jump!
Shelby, here! Shelby, go jump!
Good girl!
Shelby, go weave! Weave!
Oh, you cheater!
Shelby, go weave! Shelby, go weave!
Weave! Weave!
Weave again!
Weave! Weave! Weave! Weave!
And of course, I was watching her, not the camera.
Wanna do it again?
Here.
Okay.
Shelby, go weave! Go weave!
Weave! Weave! Weave! Weave!
Good girl!
Shelby, jump!
Good girl!
Yay! Now we need a couple more.
Whoa, Shelby!
Good girl!
