I never played high school sports, but i guess these things are real common in high school weightrooms? I've never seen one until Zach Even-esh's video recently.
Has anyone here ever made one? They seem pretty expensive for what they are. I read that you have to drill the holes an at angle though, as to not let the pegs slip out...
we had one in our high school- the hard part was that the bars had no handles so if you "jammed" it in you would also pinch the fleshy part of your hand.
and the holes are straight- NO angle- hand to line it and make sure it went in straight and soft then pull yourself up. Not many guys could do that.... (heh heh)
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I actually saw that video, and it's what brought up this topic. Great minds think alike, eh?
Yea, i guess they sell them like that too, and they're 300 bucks or so. I think it'd be pretty easy to make one though, if i could just buy the pegs. I can't imagine these high schools form years ago bought them from a catalog. They had to have made them themselves.
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nope, they prolly just bought them. it's not like a couple hundred (even if it was that much back then) is much to a school.
yea, but who made them?
it's not like there was a ready available market for this stuff like there is now.
It's like strongman stuff. In the 80s, no one had it unless they made it themselves. Now, everyone has it (well, not everyone, but you get what i'm saying)
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Likely the same places that got them balls and helmets and bases and climbing ropes and mats and those wonderful scooter things that made sliding across the gym floor so awsym. I just highly doubt that schools all across the country just all made them, to look pretty much exactly the same, all on their own. Who at school is doing that? They were fairly common, I'm sure there was a manufacturer and whatnot.
Likely the same places that got them balls and helmets and bases and climbing ropes and mats and those wonderful scooter things that made sliding across the gym floor so awsym. I just highly doubt that schools all across the country just all made them, to look pretty much exactly the same, all on their own. Who at school is doing that? They were fairly common, I'm sure there was a manufacturer and whatnot.
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i'm just kidding. It's like you totally destroyed my dream of building them being a common thing.
Please, allow me to stomp on your dream a bit more . In the course of my work, I have been in the gyms of nearly all of the more than 50 (public, not even counting parochial) elementary, middle, and high schools in my city and from the oldest (some are pretty darn old) to the newest, they almost all have climbing pegboards. And, they were very clearly not homemade. Stomp, stompy stomp .
Quote from the site you offered... "Peg board training has been used fordecades to increase upper body strength."
Companies producing recreational and phy ed equipment for schools have been around nearly as long as schools themselves.
GY149MW3; ($459.00 )
These boards are made of dried hard maple, in eight different styles...10,000 are in use in schools from coast to coast...Our supplier has been making them since 1961...They are all precision drilled and triple varnished ...Boards are hand made and hand finished and kiln dried so they don't warp or crack...Each board comes with one pair of pegs......All are a full 1 1/2" thick...Mounting is simple, just use our mounting kit as shown below for concrete or brick walls...Comes with four lag shields and four screws for mounting.
I started grammar school in 1958 and there was one in both gyms at that time.
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. In the course of my work, I have been in the gyms of nearly all of the more than 50 (public, not even counting parochial) elementary, middle, and high schools in my city and from the oldest (some are pretty darn old) to the newest, they almost all have climbing pegboards. And, they were very clearly not homemade. Stomp, stompy stomp 
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