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Quality training equipment can be expensive. But you can make your own equipment at a fraction of the cost, while still maintaining quality. All of these pieces of equipment are able to be used indoor or outdoor, taken apart for transportation, and adjusted to preferred size of each owner. Here is a link to official dog agility website for regulation equipment dimensions: https://www.usdaa.com/rulesReg_ObsReqs.cfm The following is a breakdown of everything you need for the different pieces of equipment shown in the video. Remember, you are able to change the lengths of any piece of equipment, these are just the lengths I chose. Materials (and where I got them): Harbor Freight: PVC Pipe Cutter = $6.79 Home Depot: 100 feet of PVC40 ½ inch (comes in 10 pieces, 10 feet each) = $18.70 (discount if you buy 100 feet or more) = $0.19/foot “T” joints = $0.54/piece 45-degree joints = $0.75/piece Couplers = $0.44/piece Endcaps = $0.38/piece If you want permanent fixtures, or want to glue certain parts together, you can also get some PVC cement to connect these pieces. I found some for about $3.50 at Walmart. Disclaimer: I do not represent or make recommendations for any of the above stores. They are just the stores where I bought my supplies. Weave Pole (4 poles): PVC: 8.5” x 2 12” x 4 21” x 3 30” x 4 PVC costs: 20.67 feet = $3.93 Joints: 6 “T” joints 8 endcaps Joint costs: $3.24 + $3.04 = $6.28 Total Cost: $10.21 Hoop Jump: PVC: 12” x 10 24” x 2 4.5” x 4 2” x 4 6” x 4 PVC costs: 18.17 feet = $3.45 Joints: 6 “T” joints 4 couplers (connectors; through and through) 8 45-degree joints 6 endcaps Joint costs: $3.24 + $1.76 + $6 + $2.28 = $13.28 Total Cost: $16.73 Adjustable, Fall Away Bar Jump: PVC: 12” x 6 36” x 1 39” x 1 6” x 8 2” x 10 PVC cost: 17.92 feet = $3.40 Joints: 12 “T” joints 16 endcaps Joint costs: $6.48 + $6.08 = $12.56 Total Cost: $15.96 Breakdowns: • To make 1 of each piece of equipment and buy PVC cutter, total cost: $49.69 • To make the exact set up I made in this video (3 weave poles, 1 bar jump, 1 hoop jump), total cost: $70.11 • Total length of PVC pipe used for exact setup shown in video: 98 feet, 1.2 inches (1 foot, 10.8 inches of PVC left over) Gluing instructions (3 options): 1) You can glue all parts of these together if you have a permanent area to keep your obstacle course. This will reduce the chance of things falling apart or coming loose, but will also make it hard if you want to transport them anywhere. All pieces are a bit bulky when set up, especially the weave poles, which are about 8 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 2.5 feet tall when fully constructed. (note: DO NOT glue pieces that may need to be adjusted for height, such as with the hoop jump, unless you never plan on changing the height) 2) Do not glue any of the parts together. This will allow for the course to be broken down for travel. You can fit most, if not all materials in something like a tall army-type duffle bag, baseball bag, etc. Mainly just needs to be long enough to account for long pieces. However, if you want maximum portability, you can even cut the long sections in half and then reconnect them with a coupler. This will allow you to break the long sections (such as the poles in the weave poles) down into small portions for easier transportation. It will make initial construction and set up a little longer however. Downsides to using no glue is that pieces can slip apart when moving the obstacles or loosen a bit over time. However, if you do cut the long pieces down a little, you could realistically fit everything into a large duffle bag for transportation. A complete breakdown will require some time to disassemble and then reassemble, but it is possible, and there shouldn't be any individual pieces longer than about 2 feet or less. 3) You can glue certain parts together, but not everything. This is what I did. I want to have the ability to break down the agility course to transport to another location easily. However, it is also annoying when poles slip out of their joint and you have to reconnect everything. So to try and fix this somewhat, I just glued certain parts of the course together so that it doesn't fall out very often, but still has the ability to be broken down to travel size. I glued all of the feet construction together so that they won't fall apart, but did not glue them to the bottom of the poles so that they can still be taken off. I also glued the vertical poles from the weave poles to the T joint at the bottom. This allows you to pick up the vertical poles to move the piece with less risk of poles slipping out of their joints. I did not glue the horizontal pieces going into the T joints, and I still wanted to be able to take those out for transportation. Basically, look at your set up. Whatever you decide you will never take apart, even for transportation, you might as well glue together to help stability.