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Location: Texas! | What all did y'all do for base, drainage and footing for your outdoor arena? What did it all cost you? Not needing fencing just the actual groundwork done. |
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Location: Arkansas | Bump |
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Location: Ohio | I'm going to be starting mine late this fall, hopefully. I think it will depend on your soil what you do. Where I am we have horrible soil and it rains a lot. It's this sticky clay that stays wet and you sink if it's rained any time recently. As of now my plan is to have someone come in with a dozer and grade the area (~110x130') possibly put in drain tile, lay down fabric, put down a base of crushed limestone, ~4" and compact that and let it settle this winter, then haul in sand in the spring. It's really hard to ride outside here no matter what the season because it seems like it's always wet. Eventually I want to put up a covered arena, but for now an outdoor with good sand footing will do. I don't know exactly what it's going to cost but I'm imagining around $10,000. I doubt you'll have to do as much to the soil in Texas. When I lived in ok I rode outside year round and never worried about tearing up my yard or pastures. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | You should start off by finding the sand and dirt yards in your area,. You could get lucky and find a place with a sandy loam. I have my pad as the virgin ground that was on our place we did an slight grade drop of 1-2% but on my arena's in the past my husband did a crown. We were not able to do that with the natural drop at this place. Make your pad 10-20' wider than you want your amended soil to sit on.
Cost will be totally up to the transport cost in your area plus the price of the material. I was wanting a new trailer but I want a safer place to work my horses when I'm at the ranch, thus, my $ will be going to high dollar S/H and sand! They can't get but a 14yd dump into there and the loads will cost me 450$ load. Thus my arena cost is $21,150
Use a soil and sand calculator to help you find the amount of soil you'll need. |
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| We moved to a new farm last year. We bought it from Grand Prix jumpers, so they spared no expense on the 150x250 ring. Unfortunately, I can't run on the footing they used. I need to add 4-6 inches of sand. That alone is over $12,000 with nothing else done to it. Soooo, it will be a long while before I get my sand. :( |
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| My husband had a pad built, packed it hard, with 1-2% grade on one side so it will drain, lined that side with rail rode ties to keep from washing the dirt out. This was several years ago, we had a pit very close to us, costs around 10k. I have friends who built on the existing soil without much prep. They used a disc to drag and in three years all the dirt they had hauled in was gone :(. |
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