yes I am back again and today is going to be a super fun video because today we are gonna make huge wing standards with four by fours and it's really really easy hi again it's me Lisa the budget equestrian welcome back to my channel and if this is your first time here welcome so today is the day you guys have probably been waiting for we are going to make some very substantial winged standards with four by fours and I was talking about this the other day I went to Home Depot and they did not have landscaping timbers totally bummed but it's the end of December beginning of January so I guess it kind of makes sense so they did have the four by fours in the eight-foot sections which the wings that I'm going to build for you today are 4 foot tall so this is perfect I got two four by fours that are 8 foot long so I am going to make a pair of wings each 4 by 4 will be cut in half so it's gonna be 4 foot and 4 foot that will make the size of the wings the other wood that I'm going to be using today is two by sixes that will be the feet and then also one by fours they say they're one by fours but they're actually like 1 by 3 and a half so that's what I'm gonna use because I had a whole bunch of 1 by 4 is left over perfect so I can use them for this and that way I get to recycle the wood and I didn't have to spend any more money and also when I'm building these I will be using two by fours because that's what's going to connect and make the picket fence like action going on and I'm gonna use two different size screws I'm using I will be using two inch long screws for the pickets and I will also be using three and one 1/2 inch long screws typically I use 3 inch screws but because these bad boys are pretty substantial I want to make sure that they are going to be secure that's why I'm going to be using the three and a half inch long deck mate screws for the feet so now that you know what we're using let's make some wing standards okay so the first thing we're gonna do is cut our four by four sections of wood down in half basically so we're gonna cut them to 48 inches so each of these four by fours is eight foot long so I'm basically turning one four by four into two four by fours that are four foot long and once I've marked the wood now I'm going to use my circular saw to cut the four by fours when you're cutting the four by fours you will not be able to do it in one swoop like you would a 2x4 or 2x6 so you'll have to cut through one side then you have to turn the 4x4 cut through another side then you have to turn the 4x4 one more time and cut through it again there might be some really huge saw blades that can go through this but for me I just turn the wood and make sure I keep my cut straight this is the speeded-up version for the second 4x4 and once you have the woodcut then you need to take two of the four-foot long four by fours and drill your holes for your jump cups and I only did this on one of the four by fours that will be on one pair of standards so that's why I'm doing this on two of the four by four pieces of wood hopefully that makes sense I think once you see this all built it will totally make sense then for my jump cups I am making the holes four inches apart starting at 12 inches so starting at 1 foot from the bottom that's where I start making my holes that I'm going to drill and then using a spade bit I think they're also called auger bits you're just gonna drill the holes and again this is the speeded-up version I really like the speeded-up version and once you have all of your holes drilled it's a good idea to go ahead and sand the four by fours I like to sand all of my wood before I start assembling it it makes it a lot easier and now it's time to cut the center section of the jump standard so for this jump standard my center sections are going to be 30 inches so I'm using a 2 by 4 and cutting them 30 inches and you will need four of those for one pair of wing standard and once you have the two by fours cut you're going to assemble your jump standard so when you're assembling your jump standard be very careful and make sure that you have one of the four by fours that has the holes drilled in it and the other four by four is the plane line so there's no holes drilled in after the frame of the standard is built now it's time to put on the feet and for the feet of my standards I'm using two by six lumber that I cut down to 24 inches you don't want to go any shorter than 20 inches otherwise your jump will kind of fall over the taller you start jumping with it so I took my foot and I put a tape measure on it and I started a screw at 12 inches that's right in the center of the foot then just attach it to the standard and then you're just gonna flip the standard around and do the same thing on the other side when I'm doing this I only put one screw in at first until I can make sure that the standard is level and if it's level then I will put in two additional screws and the screws I'm using are the deck mate three and a half inch long screws so now that we have our standards like the frame of the standards done it's time to make the pickets for my pickets I used 1 by 4 inch lumber and I cut them to 40 inches tall this is what I'm going to attach to the front of the standards so after I sand them then it's time to paint them in my opinion it's better to paint before you put the pickets on the standard when you put it on the standard it it's just a lot Messier and it takes a lot more time even though you get excited and you want to see your standard trust me and paint the pickets before you put them on after I have the pickets painted then it's time to paint the frame of the standard and that's what I'm doing I'm just painting the frame and I actually am using stain because I had a gallon of it and I thought let's stain a jump standard that would look pretty cool so that's what I'm doing and these are the frames for the standards once they are all stained and ready for their pickets you could even leave them like that if you wanted to so basically now all that's left is to attach the pickets to the frames after I've got the pickets where I want them to be I use a very small drill bit to have a starter hole for my screws this prevents the wood from splitting and cracking and then I'm using two inch deck mate screws to attach the pickets and these are the standards all done all done they're doing so the one thing that is really cool about these jump standards and building your jump standards this way is that when you put your jump cups on you're not gonna see them so that's what it will look like from the front and that's what it looks like from the back so you can see that it's easy to put the jump cups in and move them around but my favorite part about these standards is you will not see the jump cups so you don't have to run out and buy the really expensive keyhole track you can but that's really expensive you can find these jump cups for about four dollars three dollars and fifty cents if you buy a lot of pair of them from places like state line tech or horse comm and these holes are four inches apart so you could put a lot of jump cups on here you could actually do with these because remember we have the 2x4 blocking this one so you have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 you can put 8 rails on this jump we're not gonna put that many on this one but I just wanted to show you how cool that looks cuz see it looks like it's the fancy keyhole track jump cups that it's not it's the plain simple easy to find jump cups pretty cool don't you think I hope you found that video helpful and hopefully you now have an idea of how you can make your own winged standards it's not very hard like I said you just have to have a little bit of patience and take your time but these are actually very very simple and straightforward to make they use so much for watching my video today I'd love to have you subscribe to my channel just click on my picture my picture at the 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