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370 posts
Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
I did a search to try and find info but i got no luck. if you can prove me wrong id be happy.
I live in Aus and i would luuuuuuuv to find where i can buy some single pole stilts, not like the ones for plasterers/buliders n such. any info is greatly apprieciated.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
MAKE THEM.
-James
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the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
There are about 5 or 6 sites with instructions on how to make your own. It is not hard and not terribly expensive, plus you will at least have them fit (sometimes when you buy them, they don't fit correctly).
Pele
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b...bal...lence?....
370 posts
Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
DUH!!!!
why didnt i think of that..... cheers, i guess you'd have to know how to weld or sumtin, i could probably find someone to do that for us.
Thx for the help!!
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Why weld? Unless you plan on using aluminum to make them.
You can make peg stilts out of wood just as easily, no welding required, and they do hold up. Just be choosey about your wood (no knots, a mid-grade hardwood, etc.).
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
b...bal...lence?....
370 posts
Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
thats true, i had a look at a few sites and most of em have wood. i'll prob end up using wood, it'd suck if they broke on me though.
thx again for the help!!
328 posts
Location: uk
I've just fininshed overhauling a six foot pair of peg stilts, two years old now, all wooden build, if you can get hold of it, use Douglas Firn for the downtubes, recomend about 2" square, decent quality wood glue, and pre drill you screw holes, I cast the leg in glass fibre, using my legs as moulds, but alluminium bent around a former works well enough.
mark
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
my stilts
PM me for any info if you like,
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
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