Stall Bars

Greetings all,

 

I was thinking about purchasing foundation series and from what i've read I need a stall bars for some exercises.

 

I was thinking about using this DIY : http://imgur.com/a/I0ZaW

 

The problem is that I'm afraid that with pine wood it won't hold or I'm afraid that it will eventually break with the whole bodyweight. I've checked a couple of place that sell dowel (rona, bmr, home depot) but I can't find anything else than pine wood.

 

Can someone suggest me what type of wood would be good and not to expensive that will make a solid stall bars and where I could get them (online or not)?

 

I'm from Canada,Quebec.

 

 

Sorry for my poor grammar.

Thanks you!

Timophes

Pine is okay - 1.5-1.75" dia - check that the grain is straight along the length, no cracks, no wood compression and no large knots (less than 3mm is okay)

Okay, thank you. The seller told me that the pine dowel could handle only about 50 pounds. It is for this reason that I wasn't sure if pine was good enough.

 

 

Thanks!

Timophes

Unless the grain runs out partway through the dowel and isn't straight 50 pounds is a rather absurdly low number. The wood will flex, but rupture strength is much, much higher especially at the standard stall bar dowel thicknesses.

 

- Chris