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How To Build An Oxer Horse Jump For $200!!!!

1,517 views · Published 8 May 2016 · 3:52 · Indexed 30 September 2026

Channel: The Budget Equestrian · 2016 · Howto & Style

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$200 may sound like a lot of money to build a jump, but this is complete, including flowers, fillers, and everything you need to make a beautiful show ring quality horse jump! Have you ever looked at the cost for a complete jump online? To buy a jump like this one would be about $1000, or more!

You can make this jump with any size rails, gate, and flower boxes that you have. I was building this jump for a lady, so I had to take advantage of it and make a video to show you what you can do to build an oxer! But use what you have. For example, all of my jumps are 4ft standards, with 8ft rails. This is because I don’t have the space to set up 10ft jumps in my riding area. And it is a lot cheaper to build jumps at 8ft vs 10ft. As long as you have the components to build an oxer, the size doesn’t matter, it is whatever you have to make it work.
Now let’s break down the cost…
To build this jump from scratch at the 10ft size here is the cost break down:
• 4 landscaping timbers ($16.00)
• 3 10ft long 4 x 4’s ($36.00)
• 2 10ft long 2 x 4’s ($10.00)
• 2 8ft long 1 x3’s ($4.00)
• 9 8ft long 2 x 6’s($53.00)
• 28 bunches of flowers ($28.00 from the dollar store)
• 4 pair of jump cups ($16.00 from State Line Tack)
• Paint, screws, caulk, etc. ($37.00)
Total cost to build this oxer:  about $200.00 (depending on what type of paint you use, and how much stuff you already have like screws, caulking, sand paper, etc.)
Now, let me show you how inexpensively you can do this for an 8 foot oxer:
• 7 landscaping timbers ($28.00)
• 2 8ft long 2 x 4’x ($12.00)
• 2 8ft long 1 x 3’s ($4.00)
• 6 8ft long 2 x 6’s ($36.00)
• 22 bunches of flowers ($22.00 from the dollar store)
• 4 pair of jump cups ($16.00 from State Line Tack)
• Paint, screws, caulk, etc. ($28.00)
Total cost to build this oxer: about $150.00. Not a lot cheaper, but if you build 8 foot jumps for your arena, you could make an extra jump, so you could get basically 3 separate jumps for $200.00.

I wrote an article covering this on my website The Budget Equestrian: http://www.thebudgetequestrian.com/build-horse-jumps.html

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