How To Build A REALLY GOOD pullup bar

This channel is amazing! Keep making good content Robert <3

I've got a thin aluminium bar, it's rubbish for false grip (slippy and too thin) but it is a portable frame and decent as a frame for rings, plus can do flags off the round uprights. Galvanized used scaffolding tube would be the cheapest option

Great channel Robert!! I find your videos very motivating. Can you please make a video about your view on recovery/rest and dieting when training calisthenics for over 40s?

That kinda looks like posting for use in warehouse racks

A solution my town uses around town that makes things very very stable re: wood in the ground is to make a triangle using 3 huge wood posts. They put the bars at different heights but that's just for diff usages/people. Im not sure how deep they go but the triangle of the one near my house is rock solid and it's easily 30 years old.

Alrite Jim Carey

You could also put gravel stones at the base

You saved me a lot of hassle. Thanks man

Dude, amazing video and pull up work out station. I feel a wee bit deflated after learning the cost and was a machinist for 25 years in my youth so I understand those costs but will figure out what I can afford. Again, impressive job, truly.

I'm working with 3 scarforling pipes , wish me luck 😌

Footings should be below freezing zone. So in some places it's 4 feet + :D

I envy the setup :D

Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing all of your learnings, saving many people from repeaying the same mistakes!

I would like to meet the wife. She sounds like a character!

same argument goes for the pipe. I realy wouldnt know why you would need a solid bar. I use a stainless stell 5/4" pipe thats not moving at all with my 90 kilos.
A galvanised steel definetly will have more grip.
But i put i band over it cause my hands startet hurting. so thats not improtant anymore.

I have done mine the same way but I have also put concrete and two 12 feet rebars in the middle of each it's 4 feet deep and eight feet above the group and the uprights are round and coloured it red and I did it with the help of my dad and siblings.

This video randomly showed up on my feed and glad I watched it. Not that I am building a pull-up bar but anyone who can openly admit doing things wrong and then explain what they learned from the process. Is someone (IMO) that not only has common sense but also has self reflected a lot in their lifetime. Let alone all the books on your shelf, from travel books to comic books to history books to 'Cosmos' by Carl Sagan. You can learn a lot about an individual by looking at their book shelves.

What was the overall cost? The end result is great, but it feels cost is prohibitive, and could be spent on a year's gym membership

Take your 4 by 4 post. And dip them in tar. Then put them in the concrete. Did that 30 years ago?30 years ago. Still standing😊

Extremely underrated video, thanks for making this. Very informative. 🙌🙌

and this is the best how to build a pullup bar tutorial on the internet 🔥

I’m curious about putting metal uprights into the ground without concrete. Maybe strapping them down with heavy pins for some added stability. What do you think?

To improve the wood to concrete bases, to extend the base that goes into the concrete, take some sheet metal and drill a hole for the bolt, then attach a few of them them to the bolt and space them out with nuts and washers. This will work better at strengthens the metal to concrete than a single long bolt

I live in LA. Can you do this setup for me at my house and make money on me? I don’t trust my GC to do as good of a job

Great video

Yo I just discovered this channel. You're cool.

nice 🎉

I wonder why all of the DIY and park horizontal bars are so solid? It is the exact opposite of the olympic horizontal bar which is very bouncy.

Nice work, I built a similar rack out of railway rails, fortunately I have a wheelloader for moving them, it was hard to build but will outlast my grandchildren I hope. Greetings from Germany

Awesome video. Thanks for inspiring me to attempt this once the snow melts. The other videos of the wooden posts wobbling during muscle ups brought me here lol

Why you need to make it sound like rocket science? 2 bars burried in the ground is not that complicated, unless you lack one hand or something.

I used scaffold poles into concrete . The cross bar was a u shaped 3/4 piping lowered into the ends then wedged into place firmly. Cheap and easy to make.

The metal would cost 1k these days lol

Did you ever do the video on a workout space in a small home? I live in southern California also and we have SMALL backyards here! And my house is not very big either.

Thanks for the tips. This was very helpful.

If I was putting anything concrete and wood that deep in the ground I'd set in a length of thick chain well painted with hammerite for the day it needed to come out then use a tractor or mini digger with slings attached to the chain to haul the thing up and out the ground. I'm 55 so may take my chances with wood in concrete, and the ground where I am is fluvioglacial till so really stony and sandy, no loam or clay whatsoever. Will make sure no vegetation is above it and slope the finished concrete to shed water. I was gonna buy a 4ft stainless bar from ebay as it's outside, now I'm not so sure as you say it's slippy, I know a superb local blacksmith may pop by and ask his thoughts on making something up for me...

I just bought two pine posts from Bunnings, I’ve gone fat bar, 2inch, found it at work, welded two ends and couch screwed it to the posts, cheep, had it 5 years now

I want one

Found a perfect video made my day..
I want to ask that i have galvanized pipe 3*6 cm can i use it for swing and pullups and muscleups?

Great video!
Another strategy to avoid posts rotting in the ground is to use bitumen tape the one made for roof covering that goes around the chimney and provides hydro isolation.

Amazing video bro, greetings from Mexico! 😄

i built it thanks to your video

Thank you sir. I grabbed 6x6s before watching and was wondering if anyone used them!