Advances in Homemade equipment

[beefybull]

Anyone here made anything interesting in the last year or so? Have you seen a piece of homemade equipment made by someone else that was interesting? ideas? Post em up!

 

[Devastation]

a couple of years ago i made my own weight releasers, chains, and boards. i haven't seen anyone else with anything super original lately tho

 

[The_Monster]

We have a 165lb dumbell we wrap a chain around and hang around our neck to do 45 degree hypers with. Does that count???
lol

 

[bignate73]

i've made Farmer's implements, boards (not much ingenuity there), boxes (the same), some grip toys (softball, pinch blocks). when I get my own place, I want to build an OLY platform for deads and oly moves.

then I'll be having some real fun!

 

[anabolic warrior]

I had made (through a local welder) a set of L-shaped hooks that go over the back of my power rack so I could have my hands all the way out on the bar when I squat. The standard hooks that came with my bar were right where I wanted to put my hands and when I got to a heavy weight it was too hard to slide my hands out after unracking it. I actually made a mock up out of iron pipes and then took it to the welder and he made them for $45. The only hard part was getting the length of them down correctly. They aren't adjustable (up and down wise) but I have been thinking about how to make them that way. I call them the poor man's monolift. They just hook over the back bar (the one that's parallel to the ground) and I can slide them to be any length apart I want.

 

[Devastation]

I had made (through a local welder) a set of L-shaped hooks that go over the back of my power rack so I could have my hands all the way out on the bar when I squat. The standard hooks that came with my bar were right where I wanted to put my hands and when I got to a heavy weight it was too hard to slide my hands out after unracking it. I actually made a mock up out of iron pipes and then took it to the welder and he made them for $45. The only hard part was getting the length of them down correctly. They aren't adjustable (up and down wise) but I have been thinking about how to make them that way. I call them the poor man's monolift. They just hook over the back bar (the one that's parallel to the ground) and I can slide them to be any length apart I want.

got a pic bro? sounds interesting

 

[anabolicwarrior]

Here are some pics.

The first pic is of the bars "in action" holding my SSB bar.
The second is a close up of one of them actually on the rack.
The third is a close up of one of them off the rack.

Pretty simple design. I had them made so that when a bar is on them, the bar is just above my nipple line, so that when I duck under and arch out, the bar comes right out. I had an idea to make them adjustable by using a smaller piece of steel that fits into the bigger piece and each having adjust holes and you could just use a steel pin to hold them in place...ala like adjusting the weight stack on a lat pulldown or adjusting the height of the seat. That way, more than just people your height could use them.

I also took a picture of an ironmind go-really-grip machine to the same welder and he made it for me for $110 vs. $229 (plus s&h) for ironmind's. I just told him what dimensions I wanted and he made it. I think he used at least 3/8" steel all over it and 1/4" for the base. I had him put a piece of 1" diameter steel for the loading pole instead of 2" because it's easier to get olympic plates on there. Here's a pic of that.