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Outdoor chin up bar

  • 29-12-2013 6:06pm
    #1
    duffyshuffle
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    Anyone built one and have a list or was anyone able to get one sorted from anywhere in Ireland? Just a basic bar to be put in/on the ground/grass out the back garden, thanks


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  • #2
    Ant11
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    duffyshuffle wrote: »
    Anyone built one and have a list or was anyone able to get one sorted from anywhere in Ireland? Just a basic bar to be put in/on the ground/grass out the back garden, thanks

    Odin gym equipment (on Facebook) can make ya one. There's also a bloke in Arklow (I think) on adverts who does bars you can fix to the wall. You'd have to galvanise it for outdoors though, which Odin do. A mate of mine built his own pull up bar out of wood in his garden, good job. I'll be doing the same myself shortly. The wood is cheap enough, dig 1 meter deep, cement, treat the wood and a steel bar on the top. Job done.


  • #3
    duffyshuffle
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    Ant11 wrote: »
    Odin gym equipment (on Facebook) can make ya one. There's also a bloke in Arklow (I think) on adverts who does bars you can fix to the wall. You'd have to galvanise it for outdoors though, which Odin do. A mate of mine built his own pull up bar out of wood in his garden, good job. I'll be doing the same myself shortly. The wood is cheap enough, dig 1 meter deep, cement, treat the wood and a steel bar on the top. Job done.

    yeah great details on how to do it here https://www.fitstream.com/articles/how-to-make-an-outdoor-pull-up-bar-a176 but i'm not the greatest DIY man! Anyone an idea on how much that would cost, or any one with the skills fancy doing a nixer?? :)


  • #4
    Ant11
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    http://www.goodwins.ie/c-286-75x44mm-3x2.aspx

    I'm getting 4 posts. Bolting 2 together each side to make sure it's thick enough. It's cheap and already treated. The DIY stuff is fairly straight forward. Time consuming is all.


  • #5
    BrianD3
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    Rather than digging big holes and mixing cement I'd be thinking about some sort of frame (eg for a swing) that would sit on the grass and be secured with tent spikes

    Have you see this thread?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055657880


  • #6
    Ant11
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    BrianD3 wrote: »
    Rather than digging big holes and mixing cement I'd be thinking about some sort of frame (eg for a swing) that would sit on the grass and be secured with tent spikes

    Have you see this thread?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055657880

    I'd prefer not to have to dig but I haven't come across anything that would be sturdy enough without digging. I would be swinging out of mine on rings, muscle ups, weighted pull ups so it would have to take a good bit of weight. I assume swing sets or scaffolding would still require sore form of digging?


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  • #7
    Ant11
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    Came across this online. Looks easy enough to make.


  • #8
    duffyshuffle
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    BrianD3 wrote: »
    Rather than digging big holes and mixing cement I'd be thinking about some sort of frame (eg for a swing) that would sit on the grass and be secured with tent spikes

    Have you see this thread?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055657880

    yeah had seen that thanks, has anyone tried the swing set with ropes suggested?


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