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| I have a 4 stall barn that I need to fill in the stalls to bring back up to level with the concrete aisleway. My guys are messy in the stall and need something permeable but will hold up for the long run. What are my best options as I am in a very wet area to begin with. Also, what would you use for a paddock that is muddy and needs to be graded to help water run off.
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| I did a layer of crushed pea gravel with matts on top. |
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| rodeomom3 - 2014-02-10 1:10 PM
I did a layer of crushed pea gravel with matts on top.
We did the same! Works well. |
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  Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | When we bought our house the barn was 100 percent concrete with no stalls. It was more of a shop. I wanted to build a barn attached to it so my guys would not be on concrete but we coudln't afford it. So we just put mats down, keep the stalls well bedded, and they have done perfect on it. So much easier to clean. Now my horses are turned out the majority of the time but even when they were in for a day or two they didn't seem to have any negative affects from the concrete. I don't think I would want to do it for horses stalled the majority of their lives though |
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| My guys stay out majority of the time too, but with all this rain we've been having, their paddocks are horrible!! My stalls are 12X12... I wonder how many truck loads I would need? 3 of them are dug out and the one has water that comes in when it rains. My guys need their stalls back!!! |
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Expert
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Location: Oklahoma | I was told once that you can dig and put railroad ties in and then cover with the dirt or whatever material and then bed. Said that if horse pees in one spot wont make a hole. They said it worked for them never tried so dont know for sure. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | Crushed rock packed with mats on top. Or concrete with mats. I used to have dirt floors. What a mess. I was constantly having to fill holes. I'll never have anything but rock or concrete again.  |
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 Leggs
Posts: 4680
Location: lexington KY | Had dirt stalls forever, will NEVER go back. Crushed rock, tamped down really well and mats cut to fit the stalls. The best thing I have ever done, even keep crushed rock in the shed to make level when the ground does begin to shift and I need to level it again, which will be about once a year. |
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 Sock eating dog owner
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | I went to a breeding farm for thoroubreds while the outside looked as if it would fall in the inside was very functional. All the stalls were concrete with a drain in the middle. All the horses were deep bedded in straw and all the stalls were dry and fresh smelling. There was well over 100 horses in that barn very clean place. I would concrete all the stalls. |
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Sideways Riding Expert
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | For those that say crushed rock what about crushed concrete? Any thoughts? |
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Location: Montana | We just took out wood floors in our and put rock and mats down, I had a whole dump truck load delivered, but we have only used about a quarter of it. It's took about six wheelbarrows about 1/2-3/4 full to fill them in. We put in new boards on the entryways into each stall, it has really helped keep the water out and the gravel in. We didn't put it flush with the ground, gave the board enough space that if water came in it had somewhere to go into the gravel. And we didn't fill it to the top of the boards with gravel so when we placed the mats in they wouldn't shift. We found the best way to cut them to fit was to mark them with chalk and use a saws all. |
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 Swiffer PIcker Upper
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | When I build my barn I am doing concrete with drains. I hate hate hate digging out pee holes in dirt floor stalls, and it seems that they always stink no matter what. |
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 The Famous Hot Wing Chicken Girl
Posts: 2964
| We used the gravel that is ground up like a thicker sand, then put mats on top. Best investment I've ever made! |
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 Crazy Doggy Mommy
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Location: Where Governor's make the liscense plates | We always use the small gravel and lime and tamp it down really well then lay mats on top. |
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Posts: 151
| We used "breeze" which is like a gravel/dirt (but mostly dirt). We rented a tamping machine fom Home Depot and spent a whole weekend tamping the breeze until it was even and hard. Then put mats down. It is awesome! It's a lot of work at first, but we've never had to touch these stalls in years. The mats stay flat and never bend up or anything. |
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What would you do...(stall question)