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Springpoles
Dread, many years ago.
Here the springpole was built with a spring.
This never worked well
for me as they straightened out too easily.
I get many requests on how to
build a springpole, so here goes once and for all! It is not difficult, and can
be done one of several ways:
1) Hang it from a branch
2) Hang it from a rafter
3) Hang it from a constructed
structure
4) Hang it from a 2x4 or cable
between 2 trees (as pictured above)
You build your own. No one
really sells the complete thing. Some places sell the spring or the hide, but
why spend the $$ when you can make it yourself so much cheaper. All a springpole
is is a biting surface (usually jute or burlap roll, or a rope) suspended from a
springy device (either a garage door spring, or what I use, two wheelbarrow
inner tubes) and hung overhead.
So, decide if you have a strong
branch, a strong rafter, or need to construct a device (see picture below) to
hang it from, and go from there. I like to hang my rope as high as possible,
allowing the dogs to swing out further. The biting surface (burlap) can be
anywhere from two feet to six feet off the ground.
Grip shows her great
form! She loves this thing!
OK, here we go!
1) Take a nylon dog collar and
fasten it around the branch/board looping it first through the wheelbarrow inner
tubes (I use two for strength). Fasten the collar. Now you have a collar holding
the inner tubes suspended in the air.
2) Attach another nylon collar
to the bottom of the inner tubes. From this, hang a rope to which your biting
surface is attached. If you want to be fancy, hang a chain piece, then you can
raise and lower your biting surface up and down the chain. Don't wrap the chain
around the biting surface, use a softer material, or a piece of small plastic
coated cable. Dogs biting chain can break their teeth. For the biting surface I
roll up a burlap sack and duct tape the ends and middle. I have also used inner
tubes, jean material, tires, old sleeve covers and rope.
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bring your dog out on a harness and leash. Have someone hold him, or tie
him near where he can watch you as you smack the burlap, push it, and
otherwise get him excited over it. Too many people push the burlap at
the dog, causing a gag type reflex. Play keep-away instead and watch his
interest grow. You can really turn a dog off for good by hitting him in
the head a few times with the thing. Keep it kinda low to start. Some
dogs love it low, and love to wrap their legs around it. Some like to
fly high and hang. Let your dog show you what they like. |
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Teaching a 10 week old
pup to grip and hang.
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people say a dog can get hurt on a springpole. Yes they can. So can your
kid playing football. These are tough, rugged dogs, and if they can't
take this kind of action, they are not sound. This is very close to
hanging on a bull, and probably why they dig it so much. The worse
accident I have had in all these years of doing lots of
springpole is one dog broke her tail when she fell straight down on it.
She never slowed down and never stopped, just loss the use of her tail
for a couple weeks. She made a full recovery. We have had some BAD
wrecks out here, with dogs flying off from 12 feet in the air and flying
dozens of feet before they land. Sometimes I think there is no way they
cannot break their necks the way they land. In 16 years of doing this,
they never have. Might it happen some day? Yup, but these are BULLDOGS,
and I will not deny them this fun. If I had had a serious injury in 16
years I might feel different, but so far we have had none, and the dogs
love this second only to the treadmills and boomer balls. |
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fun and see if you can teach your dog to release on command, return to
you and be resent on command. They really enjoy that. |
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Dread at 4 months on a simple springpole built off the end of a
garage |
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Here you can see a
structure built to hold the top bar to which all is attached.
This is about 14 feet
high. The reason it is cut off is once I cemented the two poles in place, I
was too chicken to climb that high to attach top piece, could talk no one
else into doing it, so cut it down a bit! This pic also illustrates why you
do not use chain to attach to bite surface!
This gives you a little
better idea of how a built from scratch springpole
looks.
Bandog Mhorgana enjoys
her springpole.
Grip, SchH I, WDS x
Sarona Special Forces
After a good ol' time on
the springpole you just need to sit back and relax!
Bandog Maulie, Sarona
Special Forces x Bandog Grip, SchH I, WDS
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