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Hi guys. I'm up in north west London, NW9. There are quite a few building sites around here, I had a wander in to one on friday and had a quick chat with one of the tradesmen on site. I told him what I needed, showed him a drawn up a sketch of the squat cage - he said he would give me the poles for free if there wasn't a CCTV camera pointed directly to where he was, haha! I will try again and be a bit more discreet this time.
I've just been looking at prices online. By my reckoning I need 18 couplers to fix to the frame. scaffoldingsupplies.co.uk does them for about £2.50 each. So i'm looking at £50 for the couplers alone, that's not including carriage. You're right I didn't think it'd be that expensive ..
I looked around for a ready made cage and the absolute cheapest I can find is £180 on ebay. A lot of the bid auctions are flippin' miles away and collection only, and they rarely come up on Gumtree.
If I can get the everything I need for under £100, I think it might be worth going the DIY route. It's also a bit more customisable as I don't have that much space, I can angle grind the scaffolding to the size what I need (2.1x1x1 would be ideal). I've been using squat stands for the last 18 months but I want something a bit sturdier.