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Does anyone acculay know the true reason to why you cant find a pair of standards for under $1000... and around 1000 arnt really that good?

My friend's dad built a set of standards that go up to 21feet, have a hand crank, and are set into tracks with rollers so that you can move the distance from the block with ease. The closest standards you can find to these online for sale are well over $5000.

He said he spent just over $100 dollars (and yes that is the right amount of 0's). He also made a pair of smaller ones that look like traditinal high school standards for about $60.

you can kinda get a look at them in this video http://youtube.com/watch?v=FWchMM2Ez20 (they are the metal part in back ground .. the triangle stand is a big light over the pit for night vaulting)

All track and field equipment is grossly overpriced...

EXCEPT... Poles are not overly expensive considering the R+D and overhead that it takes to get a line of poles going.

Take a look at any track catalog. Stretch bands for 40 bucks, spike inserts are 20 bucks, the list goes on.

Nice work with the standards... look pretty spiffy.

VaultPurple wrote:He said he spent just over $100 dollars (and yes that is the right amount of 0's). He also made a pair of smaller ones that look like traditinal high school standards for about $60.

Could you ask him to make some drawings available to us? I'ld love to build some good standards for a such a low price in materials.

- master

I'm with master.....I would be more than willing to pay for the plans if it works out for everybody

Consider myself included - our club would GLADLY donate to the cause for a cheaper set of standards...

Does anybody know what specifications the standards must conform to in order to be considered "legal" for high school competition?

A HS i jumped at back in the day had homemade standards. They were easily better than almost all on the market. The base was a square tube that had a round tube in it that you raised. It's been over 18 years, but if I remember correctly, one side of the square tube had a 3/4" notch removed down the length so that the screw handle attached to the round tube could be raised and locked. It was on a nice rolling track but with larger wheels so they wouldn't get stuck. I wouldn't be surprised if those standards were still in use.

there are alot of schools in oklahoma with old outdated standards very few care about track in oklahoma even track parents they just use what equipment they have even if it is not legel even small pits that look dangerous earl bell makes some nice cool standards that work off a chain system real quick and easy

ill see what i can do about getting the info on how he built them... mostly a big aluminum pipe with a pully system inside hooked to part that raises the crossbar... then attached to a hand crank... then it slides on skateboard wheels and a track drilled into the concrete

VaultPurple wrote:ill see what i can do about getting the info on how he built them... mostly a big aluminum pipe with a pully system inside hooked to part that raises the crossbar... then attached to a hand crank... then it slides on skateboard wheels and a track drilled into the concrete

Take bunch of hi-res pictures. That'd be really helpful!

actually, the standards cost right at $1000 to build, which is still significantly less than name-brand standards of the same quality.

Please count me in on buying plans for these standards. If you could just take some photos of them we could probably derive the parts and labor involved.

Thanks for taking the time.