Homemade strongman equipment

You don't have to pay big bucks to get a yoke, log, sled, farmers walk apperatus etc. Find a welder and a scrap yard and make your own.

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[InferiorThanYou]

Yes, now where do you get the weights for a good price? Hehe.

[mensacyclist]

@InferiorThanYou

That's the million dollar question. I remember that you could get a 300 lb. barbell set for $99.99 for YEARS. Then all of a sudden the price of weight skyrocketed around 3 -4 years ago. I'd look on Craigslist. I have around 2000 lbs. of weight and didn't buy one plate brand new. You might find 40 cents a lb. on Craigslist.

[kalelg4]

Please make a tutorial!!!

[mensacyclist]

@kalelg4

For that you'd have to talk to the guy who actually welded it for me. It was all actually really simple. I just told him what to do and stood there to make sure he got it right. Each piece came out absolutely perfect and cost a fraction of what it would have cost to buy it. The key is finding the right scrap metal. The rest is easy.

[markonfire85]

I love the no bs just business approach to your training. I'm going to look into getting some farmers handles built.

[mensacyclist]

@markonfire85

Thanks.....in the near future I hope to open a no BS/just business gym! It would be a barbells/power rack kind of place where power lifters and strongmen could grunt, vomit, use chalk and do all the scary exercises that the air conditioned day care center gyms don't want their customers to do. I just wonder if such a place could attract enough members.

[czoraa21]

EXPENSIVE GYM MEMBERSIP OR SCRAP METAL YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE!!!!!

[ThelegendAtlas]

@mensacyclist You got your first member right here. If I don't open my own first...

[JeanLucLC]

Thank you very much for posting this! :)

That sure motivates me to look around to find stuff and make some cool strongman equipment.

[TINutrition]

great video, thanks!

[mensacyclist]

@Swarren7630

The log was made from some sort of storage tank/cylinder that i found at a metal scrapyard. It just happened to be the right size and shape. The notches were cut out and the pipes welded on the end. But prior to that it was just some kind of container for gas or liquid.

[becoming2000]

I'm really surprised more people aren't making concrete weights for things like this. That's the only way I could afford to load my leg press with enough weight to be worth using (four 17.5" x 6" octagons with 2" pvc pipe through the center so no concrete touches my loading pins. 120lbs each, 480 total). Nowhere near the weight I'd like, but the pins are full and it only cost about $40 total, so I can't complain.

[Tralviss]

nice flowers dude



[ladida00782]

great gear mate just made my own farmers out of timber and metal cost me a carton of beer and a couple bucks

[ladida00782]

great gear mate just made my own farmers out of timber and metal cast me a carton of beer and a couple bucks

[powerlifterism1]

THIS HELPED ME OUT SOOOO MUCH :)))))