Tunnel, why is it so expensive?! - Page 1

So we are all done with almost everything we need to the our dog club, but "#$#$%... Why on earth is it a pice of textil so expensive? for puppys and small dogs we both the ikea tunnel for kids and Isa for example loves it, it works perfectly, and the top end even is blue. but for big dogs we need one with at least 60 cm diameter, is SO expensive?!

 

why is it? "#%#$&%$&/%#$ 

http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4712.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xagility+tunnel.TRS0&_nkw=agility+tunnel&_sacat=0

Worth a try...

Thanks Susie for now we will keep with the ikea one, just for fun, but when we can we will most defenetly buy it on e-bay or something like that...

There's a big difference between a professional level agility tunnel and those cheap one for children at Ikea.
One is made to last for years and the other might be useful for a year at best. but you can sometimes find used agility equipment around.
Good luck with your club.
Fry

^ Yeah, you get what you pay for when it comes to agility tunnels! My friends all buy Schauenburg tunnels from Canada. Pink ones have been on sale. http://www.dogtunnels.net/category.aspx?category_id=5&name=Pink-Products

We built all our obstacle course, will post some pics, as soon as I can, because we couldn't aford for now to buy it, it was totaly worth it, the course is allmost done and it was built to last, but we can't build a tunnel...
I know that we have to pay for quality, and the ikea solution is a very very temporary one, but for now it will have to do...

We ended up spending about 400 in the wood and 100 euros for the plastic/pvc so already spend about 500 euros just for the course, more 200 euros in bite work stuff, we will have leashes, collars, and kibble for sale at the club so at least another 500 euros... all done by the most skinflint person I know (Flávio) so we really can't spend anything else right now...

Was just complaining about the price of the "#%#$#&" tunnel because I'm totaly in love we our course and the tunnel is the thorn in it all... $&%$/#$/$%" =(

If our jobs don't work out we discouverd that we can live out of building obstacle courses eheheh

They are our baby! All built from quality wood, all taken care to last the weather, hopefully they will =D

Those are the strangest agility jumps i have ever seen. I do not think they would be legal on most courses. All i have seen are PVC. and designed to drop if the dog hits them.
The teeter, A frame and Dog walk look very nice.
Fry

I'm confused: are you building an obstacle course or agility obstacles? These are fine if it's just an obstacle course, but not for agility. Agility jumps should be PVC jumps, some with wings, not these solid ones that won't drop if they hit them. Using PVC is also much cheaper and easier to move around and adjust.That A frame seems steep and the dog walk doesn't look stable and too tall - the height thing might be off due to the picture. About the only correct obstacle pictured here is the teeter.

Would I goof around on these jumps? Yes. Would I ever run my agility dogs over them? No.

they are to an obstacle course, not agility, the agility ones as I said will be all in pvc and will soon be done. The A-frame ended up being a bit to steep in deed but we will fix it soon, the dog-walk is the right height, and it looked unstable to me to, but the carpinter built a strong base down in the ground and as it is all solid wood even it's own weight helps it to no even flinch, it is surprisingly steady! I am most pround of the dog-walk exactly because it is so surprisingly, an to me it looks really elegant. We are really in the beging of it all so we do not plan to organized oficial proofs soon, but one the rechears and all the obstacles are acording to fci standarts and mesures. (even the pvc ones, that for now are 5 jumps, and a tire jump)

Ps.: the litle wood jumps are intendent to beginer dogs and are nothing oficial, we had in the association where we first start training and they are great, they are small enouth most dogs can dog it easly and it also helps the handler to learn... don't know how you guys do it but it was very usefull to us, also gives a great warming up exercise =)