Buy Equpment?

 

Hammer -  schedule 80 pvc - 50 inches long.  Stack 1" hole weight plates and secure

 

WFD/WOB - Eyebolt, stack weights, short chain make 18inches long.  You can bend rebar into a handle

 

Sheaf - Buy a bag from Jason Clevenger

 

Caber - barn poles

 

That will get you started in the right direction, you will want to invest in some "real weights" down the road though

 

Pitchfork - ACE Hardware, order a 3 tine and a sander - sand them down until they are ice picks

 

1.  Don't do that with the hammer.  It MIGHT work for awhile, but after the first few throws you are likely to lose the plates as whatever you've used to secure them will probably have loosened up.  Worse, this might happen while you are doing winds; this can be kinda scary and if the head breaks off while you are winding it can be pretty painful too.  Ask me how I know.  Any one of the hammer-makers on this Forum can make you a head which will basically last forever (unless it's an Old Celt and you hit a water fountain with it...and even after that it STILL takes a handle...barely!)

 

2.  WFD...same problem as above.  Unless you've got a Sorinex Ballistica or something, these USUALLY don't hold up well...based on what I've seen.  Just sayin.

 

3.  Sheaf bag...yup.  JClev marks the bags with a number which I am assuming is their number relative to the first one he ever made; that being said, I think he is up over 500.  This is not an accident.  You are probably going to see a Clevenger bag at one or more of the Games you attend...not shilling for Jason (he doesn't need it) but you might as well practice with what you are going to see on Games day.

 

4.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!  Don't do that with barn poles!  Barn poles are NOT made for this.  No disrespect, but from your posts I gather you are a newer thrower; you probably don't have a lot of experience with the caber (if you do, my bad).  Again, no disrespect, but one late pull with a barn pole or a bad drop means you just lost $50+ on an eighteen foot stick and now what you have is two nine footers.  Or less.  Don't do it.  My throwing group has lost SO MUCH MONEY on barn poles breaking just like that that we'll never use them again.  Period.  Matt Vincent and the Pockoski's have laid out how to build a DIY stick; it might be a shade more expensive and is definitely more labor-intensive, but it'll be worth it if you cannot find your own to cut down.

 

5.  Sheaf fork...well...I might know a guy.

 

If you are serious about the Games and have the disposable income, get a light hammer, a lwfd, a JClev bag.  Give yourself every advantage.

 

 

 

 

 

What he said!