Homemade throwing implements

[Detroitpete]

Too much snow and too much time not throwing will make a fellow undertake interesting hobbies.

I wanted to mash together some cheap but reasonably effective throwing implements so here's what I came up with:








The hammer is a piece of 3/4 inch plastic conduit with a collar at the bottom.

The WFD and WOB's are 1/2 threaded pipe--one is 10 inces and the other is 12 inches with a floor flange attached at the base and my high-tech handle it a half inch "T" with rope threaded through it.

The work well albeit a bit wonkier than a traditonal weight, but for me its ok for training to have to 'muscle' them a bit more.

I already had the plate weights so the entire set-up cost me under $25.00

[Detroitpete]

And of course the pics didn't come through! ugh--I'll give it another whirl.

[Detroitpete]

[Detroitpete]

eerrrrgh...if you want to check them out, go to : http://www.flickr.com/photos/31491495@N05/

[Tatonka]

Ingenious, I think my next stop is the hardware store...

[McMurdo]

Those look pretty cool, great idea

[Alan H]

Nice! Those will do very well! Guid on ye!

[Mipi]

And the comment you got for one photo is really cool!

[Ryan Nielson]

My homemade implements are very similar. I had to experiment with the hammer a lot. When I used 10lb. plates over the pvc it was breaking the PVC all the time. When I switched to 5lb. plates it wasn't breaking as much. Less circumfrance on it made it slap onto the ground a little softer I guess. It still broke sometimes but less often that way. PVC is cheap as hell though I buy 20 foot pieces of it so I have a lot of extra for when it breaks.

[Detroitpete]

Dang Ryan--5lb plates--Makes SO much more sense! I've only thrown this hammer a few times now in the snow. Previously I used that hammer handle with a "wad" of towing chain coiled and looped in a donut.

The other thing I learned about these implements is to shorten the pipe on the WOB/WFD--10 inches is plenty--if you can get 8 threaded at both ends it's better. The shorter length makes more of a 'compact' weight and means less slopping about on spins for WFD.