How do I make this?

I need some suggestions on how to make a working high bar to use for sheaf and WOB training at home.  As it is we have a couple of pvc pipes kind of stuck in the ground with a knock off bar going across.  It's a pain in the butt to change the height and only goes up to about 11 feet.  I really need some ideas on making something more suitable and still not too expensive.  I've seen photos with what looks to be extension ladders with a bar coming off from it but i dont know how those work either.  How do you guys do this and where do I get materials? It's really going to help training when we get a crossbar that is stable and usable.
Thanks for your suggestions!
Brandt

Just a thought  havent made it yet but have seen it with mike north.

I think that if you would take a  5 gallon bucket and fill 3/4 full with cement and take a  Maybe 3" pvc pipe taped at the bottom or caped. Cut it just long enough to  come just above the rim of the bucket let this harden in the cement, maybe drill a hole through so you could push a nail or pin through it.  Then take a 2 1/2 inch pvc pipe or what ever size  that would just slip inside the 3" and still be able to be pulled out ( if you wanted to make it stay at home than get as tall of a length as you want.) But I was thinking of making it portable so I would just keep adding pipes tat could slide inside one  another. But I would make sure that the bottom was 2" shorter than the nest and so on., dont want them to slide all the way in and get lost. On the last pipe I would drill through the pipe to slide a small dowell or one of those  little quarter inch poles or the poles from aan old tent ( fiber glass thing) through the whole. I then would go down the polls and drill them so I could stick a nail or pin through them just like  an old tv antina poll that telescopes up.  My first pole would olny ( this is the one that fits inside the 3" one)  be about 5 feet long. I would take this poll and drill holes every six inches for me I olny need about  six holes. I would then drill  one whole into pipe  number two about 1 foot from the bottom. Now I can get the pipes laid out to a minmum highth and a 3 foot highth  adjustment with six inch adjustments. So for me its a two foot  bucket pool, the next pool is 5 foot  with 3 foot adjustments so this one is fixed. Then I could add a nother  8 to ten footer  wanting a overlap of at least min of 1 foot so I go with a  10 footer . So I can have about a 14 foot standard that maxes out at 14 foot but can be adjusted in 6 inch increments  from 11 to 14 or ther about. Should be easy to male and transport.  Ill let you know

Paul

I saw a set of 30ft sheaf standards one time (made by Thom McCaughan in St. Louis) that were made with 15" tires filled with cement.....just like portable, home made volleyball net poles.  At first, I thought there was no way this could be stable, but once he set them up AND staked them to the ground, I was impressed.  Staking standards to the ground is key.  I happen to have a collection of anvils lying around (doesn't everybody) and I throw a couple of them on my bases, a hurricane can't pull them over.  Just some random thoughts on the matter.

I just made a home standard it is one tower that has pre drilled holes every 6 inches. to change the hieght you just lean the tower forward and move the crossbar. it sound like a pain but is much faster than any other system i have seen becuse you don't have to re measue each time. In the picture it is at 12 ft with the second pipe it goes to 20. I think if you had 15 ft pipes you could go to 30 but that mite be pushing it.
http://myweb.cebridge.net/cghighlander/2005tundra/images/d cp_4003.jpg

Edited by G-man

Excuse me for the hi-jack of the thread for a moment!!! 

But I was just looking at those pictures and "DAMN" I was bitching about throwing the caber in the rain at KC this year!!

http://myweb.cebridge.net/cghighlander/2005tundra/images/dcp _3996.jpg

I'm going to keep my mouth shut!!!!

Terry Lawson

PS I do like the WOB rig. I might have to do this instead of the one out of steel tubing.

 

If he can make 13' that way, then he should be good for 15' or more with improved form.

-Wayne

Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions!  As to those snow throwers...man, I bitch when it's just cold and windy.  Not sure I could handle caber tossing in the snow!
Thanks again.  With all this advice I'm sure we can put something together.