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| How much does it cost to put an equine swimming pool in? Ball park? Just wondering...
The internet is extremely vague.
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Location: Sunny So Cal | I don't know but I would love to as well. One of my horses is made out of glass I swear. Have thought about having her swim in a pool to build stamina and strength. I can't find any close to where I live. So next step is seeing how much |
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Location: Kansas | maybe you can call a company that builds swimming pools....tell them the design your looking for, and get an estimate through them.....just a suggestion. |
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Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| Did some calling around....base price on a swimming pool, you're looking at about 100K.
Underground aquatreads, same story, kind of the 90-100k base.
Above ground treadmills, 80-100k-ish.
Basically, you can spend as much money as you want for the features. The sky is the limit.
Very interesting! I'm thinking of a full fledged facility, and so this is all very good to know! Just thought I'd share. |
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Location: Kansas | sweet heavens!!! I'll pay a guy a thirty pack who owns a back hoe to dig a hole.....and fill it was water...wala, pond/swimming pool. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | There's a full facility for sale right now in Oklahoma...it's gorgeous. |
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Location: In my own world | classicpotatochip - 2015-03-23 1:33 PM
Did some calling around....base price on a swimming pool, you're looking at about 100K.
Underground aquatreads, same story, kind of the 90-100k base.
Above ground treadmills, 80-100k-ish.
Basically, you can spend as much money as you want for the features. The sky is the limit.
Very interesting! I'm thinking of a full fledged facility, and so this is all very good to know! Just thought I'd share.
I bought a Horse Gym treadmill with an incline and that will trot for $35,000. Brand new last fall. Love it |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | CPC, does that inclue the concrete?
Rachellyn.... where?? Not that I will be buying anything anytime soon.. it's nice to dream!! |
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Location: Phoenix | That's a whole lotta moolah!!!!!!! |
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Location: PNW | Longneck - 2015-03-23 2:18 PM
CPC, does that inclue the concrete?
Rachellyn.... where?? Not that I will be buying anything anytime soon.. it's nice to dream!!
It BETTER! My husband can dig a hole with his excavator for like $200 worth of fuel and time. I'm curious to know where they get the other $99,800 for that price. lol |
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Location: In my own world | svincent - 2015-03-23 3:10 PM Longneck - 2015-03-23 2:18 PM CPC, does that inclue the concrete?
Rachellyn.... where?? Not that I will be buying anything anytime soon.. it's nice to dream!! It BETTER! My husband can dig a hole with his excavator for like $200 worth of fuel and time. I'm curious to know where they get the other $99,800 for that price. lol
If you know exactly what you need I would talk to an actual pool company to see if they could do it cheaper |
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| My brother is a pool builder and he figured around $85000. You need high end filtration for the dirt and hair and also a salt water pool. Which is better for their skin the most expensive part is all the equipment required. It not like a average back yard pool |
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Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| I did talk to an actual pool builder. It's not so much the excavation or concrete (which is expensive whatever way you go, concrete is spendy), but the heavy filtration system, added with pumps, heavy plumbing, etc. The equipment is where it bites ya. |
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| heidiinaz - 2015-03-23 3:26 PM
My brother is a pool builder and he figured around $85000. You need high end filtration for the dirt and hair and also a salt water pool. Which is better for their skin the most expensive part is all the equipment required. It not like a average back yard pool
Yes, that's exactly what I was told. Obviously, you're going to be able to dumb it down, but to get something that is really manageable that can handle 10-15 horses daily, as well as a size that is effective, it's going to get expensive quickly. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Well, thanks for getting prices for us!! I have always wondered. I could get the dirt work for free, but I don't have any means of getting discounted prices on concrete and swim parts! 
I did the math... and to get the bottom of the line system for $90k I'd have to aquatred my gelding everyday for 7.71 years to break even with what I'm paying a day for him to swim right now.
Maybe if I buy him some swim shoes he can swim in my pool at the house and he won't puncture the liner! |
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| I agree, it's not something that one just jumps out and buys for private use, unless you've got more money than God. I think for a business start up, it's something that isn't completely outrageous, especially if you've got a good business plan and are willing to expel the sweat necessary to keep clients happy! |
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Location: North Dakota | Oofta. For that price I'll haul down to the river and make him swim. |
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Location: MI | I worked for Shiawassee Farms with Standardbreds and they had a pool that we swam harness horses with daily. Theirs had a hot walker arm in center that was free moving. We would put a headrope attached to a pvc pipe and a snap on end. We would then braid a rope into their tail with about 12 feet of rope hanging. We would walk one down the ramp and throw the rope with the pvc pipe over the arm and snap it up. Then once the horse was in would swing the tail end rope over the hook on the next arm of walker and pull them tight between the arms so they couldnt hit the sidewalls. Worked great except for the ones who learned how to float and let others drag them around, so then we'd have to motivate them to swim. lol
Next I worked for Iron Mill Farms in Collinsville. Lonnie just took a existing tank that was on property, dredged and killed all fish in it, put in limestone around shore to change ph of water, then built a ramp to walk down, and a anchored dock with a drawbridge for us to circle with the horse swimming. It worked ok, but we were fortunate to never have one that couldnt swim. I had noticed from my time at Shiawassee that the fitter the horse is with less body fat, the harder it is for them to swim as they arent as buoyant. |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2015-03-23 1:37 PM
sweet heavens!!! I'll pay a guy a thirty pack who owns a back hoe to dig a hole.....and fill it was water...wala, pond/swimming pool.
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I am a Freak
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Location: Nowhere Special | I have a small creek and pond on my place and I was thinking about trying to do something with it.. I'm more thinking of using the part of the creek that is about chest deep on a horse and 80 feet long and just walking them thru it.. Poor mans underwater treadmill.. IDK if it would work but for about $50 worth of dirt work and some weedwacking I'm fixin to find out.. LOL
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Very Interesting Thread
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Not trying to steal the thread but what does it usually cost to swim a horse or put one on an aquatred at a facility?
People do it all the time here I just have never asked.
I'm sure if you were to put one in you make that money back easily. Right? |
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Location: Bandera, TX | There is a new aqua tred place in my area. To keep the horse there it is $56 per day. Given the cost of the aqua tred I understand where the price comes from. However, this is out of my price range.
I don't know how much they charge to haul in just for a swim. |
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Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| When I have sent horses to Aquatread, it was about $50-$60 a day. I just picked one up from swimming that was $30 a day, and everyone says how cheap that is.
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Location: Oklahoma | I went thru an extensive pricing a few weeks ago... I priced just about every joint that was recommended. Typically around $50 for the first swim and you get discounted to around $30 after the first swim. And then some places want $25-30/day boarding on top of the Aquatred/salt water chamber/swimming costs. It adds up FAST. Bylers were the cheapest, by far. But I couldn't justify the six and half hour drive down there and not really be able to make a short drive and check on him (not saying that they don't take care of horses by any means, I just like to see with my own eyes). I wound up taking my horse to the only aquatred I could easily find in Oklahoma. It's $225/week with the six days a week aquatredding, turn out and hay/grain (took my own grain bc of allergy issues). That's about $32/day and easily within my price range when I was originally budgeting for $50-80/day. It's a nice place and my vet really thought highly of the vet that has his name on the place. |
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| just go buy a new horse.................. |
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| scared of sharks - 2015-03-24 12:30 AM
just go buy a new horse..................
AMEN! Holy SHEEP DIP, I would need to rob SEVERAL banks on a DAILY basis to afford this stuff! 
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Equine swimming pool installation-Update on Cost.