SGStriglos
Bronze Member
I am helping a freind redo a horse arena surface area. i am not a horse person but my daughter keeps a horse at a nice couples barn and they house 12 horses and have by my guess a 200x50 indoor riding arena. The owner decided to replace the sawdust base on the surface with a mixture of clay and sand. I guess the logic was to keep dust down and provide a safe footing for the horses.
Recipe for surface...
3":1/2" clay and sand...I might be off on the ratio but you get the idea.
There is a very hard surface under all this with no rock at all. We have after alot of trial and error got the entire arena covered within tolerance with 3" of nice clay and now need to lay sand on top and then till it. We now realize how hard it is going to be to distibute the sand in any kind of uniform way. Any suggestions are appreciated...doesn't have to be perfect and I know we can't do it with buckets or any 3pt attachment we have...blade or box scraper...ect. Someone suggested two options a gravel spreading tandem like they use to lay out rock when chipping roads or a lime casting trailer that you pull behind tractor.....Any thoughts are appreciated.
Recipe for surface...
3":1/2" clay and sand...I might be off on the ratio but you get the idea.
There is a very hard surface under all this with no rock at all. We have after alot of trial and error got the entire arena covered within tolerance with 3" of nice clay and now need to lay sand on top and then till it. We now realize how hard it is going to be to distibute the sand in any kind of uniform way. Any suggestions are appreciated...doesn't have to be perfect and I know we can't do it with buckets or any 3pt attachment we have...blade or box scraper...ect. Someone suggested two options a gravel spreading tandem like they use to lay out rock when chipping roads or a lime casting trailer that you pull behind tractor.....Any thoughts are appreciated.