Grab Bars - STURDYmade parkour obstacles

For shear versatility and ease of use, its hard to beat the common ADA grab bar. Tyson Cecka goes over some different uses for these objects as well as how best to attach them and how to spot a weak bar.
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*2017 update: Several of our 3' grab bars have bent over time due to landing impact. I'd now recommend under 3' spans anywhere that you can potentially land on them.

[@carol-lynnholden1200]

Hey, thanks for this! You mentioned that some of the better manufacturers have a 2000lb rating. What are these manufacturers and where do you usually get yours?

[@Ruralset]

For strength I use the plumbing pipes. They measure them by what is going through them so 1" threaded pipe will feel like 1/14" , which is a good size for most palms. But if your pipes are longer than 5' than yeah structurally you should buy 11/2" grips (1/1/4") . An idea to keep strain off of the lags is to use a hole saw the size of the pipe, run them through post or wall , then lag/ carriage them from the other side. When you put weight on the middle of the pipe it will bend of course but the wood will be sharing the load and the lags/carriages will mostly fasten the bar from rotating. I didn't even use all the lags that were given. I've made a 10' x 6' x 9' type bar set up in my backyard with 12' square wooden posts attached to the back porch. I wish I could've found round posts that were exactly 4" but you know it's actually 3.5" at the stores. Round posts would be awesome so there could be more horizontal angles. Maybe I should learn to wield 🤔

[@AMParkourCT]

I run AMParkour in CT, and I had always wondered whether these were heavy duty enough to hold up. Never ended up trying it out, but I'm glad you guys did, since this will help a lot. For your regular bars in your cage, do you use all 1.5" or do you use 1.25" as well. 1.5 feels incredibly thick to me.

[@STURDYmade]

We've only used 1 1/4 for floor bars. We chose 1 1/2 sch80 to have strong bars that wouldn't bend - the diameter works well for us. I actually prefer the thicker for improving finger grip strength.

[@EssentialTomodachi]

So you need to make more videos like this, because this was exactly the kind of thing I was looking for a couple of years ago. I live in the middle of nowhere and there are very few decent obstacles that we can use without getting chased off by security/cops, so I wanted to build my own obstacles, but my lack of carpentry and engineering knowledge kept me from trying, and I couldn't find ANY build tutorials back then.

[@corpsiecorpsie_the_original]

For anyone building these, use structural lag screws or bolts that are made to handle the loads over a longer period of time. Their load rating will be printed on the package they come in.
They are more durable.

[@movemodule1884]

I would like to use them as precisions bars, what do you put under the wood so that they don't slide ?

[@STURDYmade]

we use spare rubber from our 3/4" horse stall mat flooring

[@Noachkh]

How do you make bar setups?

[@RawrDevin]

im going to make these :D

[@Gorillaman_Parkour]

Thank you!

[@teamjinzhan1874]

thanks this is great