Homemade Power Rack

[Seth]

I've been looking into creating my homegym and an essential part of that is of course, the power rack. But as I've found, they're quite expensive. So I searched and I found a video of a guy who had made his own. I'm thinking about doing something similar.
Thoughts?

[lovestolift]

Check out this post from Gargoyle. He built one and did a very good job on it.

[blueprint]

I made my own power rack out of 4x4 and 2x6 wood. I bolted it together so its not going anywhere. I also want to add another piece of wood across the to top to complete it... i haven't done it yet. I use the heaviest duty eye-hooks i could find (at any hardware store) to support the bar. I simply drill a hold at an angle and slide it right in.

I don't know but maybe I can get a picture to post it up shortly. Best of luck!

[tommyknuckles]

I've made my own out of scaffold from a link found on stronglifts i think?

I'll find the link and post it with photos tomorrow.

It's great really cos it's fully adjustable and so easy to put together.

I was lucky enough to get the scaffold gratis from working in construction but i don't think that new scaffold would cost that much either?

I've had 180kg on it so far and had no problems.

Hope this helps.

[tommyknuckles]

http://www.deepsquatter.com/strength/ar ... c/cage.htm

http://www.joeskopec.com/scaffold.html

I used these articles for mine.

Just amke sure you check the dims suit you cos i made mine about 2" too narrow to bench properly within it.

[tommyknuckles]

http://www.scaffoldingsupplies.co.uk/pr ... ffold.html

Guide prices for the obvious.

[tommyknuckles]

sorry. but not sure how to post photos?

i'll look through the forum and find out.

[rossi]

I'm building one in wood right now. (4x4). I couldn't find any used scaffolding in the wide neighbourhood, so settled for wood.
You need more equipment than the website suggests though, just a normal drill won't drill straight holes; so you need either a stand for the drill or a vertical drill. One of the pillars is a bit warped, around 1inch from top to bottom. I hope this doesn't matter in the final construction. I asked my father who is a civil engineer, he doesn't think it matters.

[rossi]

Here are some pictures of my rack. I've made it from 90mmx90mm poles (which are strangely enough 85x85), and 100mmx50m(=95x45).
It took around 25 hours to build I think. It was the first thing I ever built in wood. If I'd known the construction time beforehand, I would have bought a metal one. But I thought I could do it over the weekend, and when I couldn't I was commited since I had already bought all the materials and tools. I took the plans from (http://www.home-gym-bodybuilding.com/ho ... -rack.html) and made some small mods: I extended the base outriggers also to the front of the rack, so it won't tip over if you do some acrobatic pullups. I fixed the pullup bar in the poles instead of the connectors, which is stronger and you have more space. The bars are 1inch ID, around 34mm OD, which is rated to 340kg/1m I believe.
Without tools, I think it cost around 200 euro (screws+wood, no workhours included ) I hanged on it with some heavy guys, together 270kg, and not a single sound or movement, so it'll safely hold 140kg, the max I can imagine myself using.
The only thing is I need to stiffen it up in the side dimension. In the front-back dimension it is totally rigid, but in the left-right dimension there is a little bit of play that I want to eliminate.

[summerss]

I've built my own using 2X2 inch pine wood. It doesn't look like a proper rack but it does the job. It consists of 3 sections, 1 to rest the barbell on for squats, 1 at chest height for bench pressing and 1 for putting the barbell down in the lower squat position. It cost me 18 Euros to buy the wood and took me 2 days to build.

[rossi]

Take a pic, it's hard to imagine exactly what you're talking about. I wish I could think up such things for 18 euro

[FilthyMcNasty]

what do you think of these http://toptower.co.uk/builders_trestles.htm

I metre wide and can be ordered with swivelling feet for low volume storage, rated to 450k.

[holvoetn]

Can be used nicely as safety bars. Or do you also plan to use them as squat stands ?
Could be done as well ...

[FilthyMcNasty]

Can be used nicely as safety bars. Or do you also plan to use them as squat stands ?
Could be done as well ...

As the No 3 model extends between 3ft 6(?) and 5ft 10 I thought they would be good as squat stands on high setting and spotters on low setting. Maybe with some cross bracing and brackets a power cage could be implented, at round £70 for the pair I figured the price alone had to be worth a mention for something rated to 450kgs

[oggynosh]

NIce rack---just what Im thinking about ...