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Location: Mississippi | We are revamping a barn on our property and adding stalls. Currently the floor is just dirt/clay and I have been researching the best flooring to use for the stalls. It looks like most people recommend something called 'crush' (a mix of limestone, etc)? Anyone have any input on this? Those that have used crush, how deep should it be and how do you pack it down. What type of mats do you use?
I want to go ahead and try to get it right from the start so we aren't having to go back in later on :)
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | We have sand, then rail road ties over, and then rubber mats |
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Location: NE Texas | SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-20 12:29 PM We have sand, then rail road ties over, and then rubber mats
Really??? Interesting. We have sand....with big holes pawed it in at the front of the stall. Need to re-evaluate. The rail road ties don't move? |
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| Rail road ties!!! Fantastic idea.
Herbie- at one of the places I stayed for years, my husband and I built wooden floors for the panel stalls the owner provided. We used 4x4s and screwed 2x12s to them. They were so heavy they never moved. I bet if you screwed the ties together they would be there after the apocalypse. |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Herbie - 2016-04-20 1:31 PM
SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-20 12:29 PM We have sand, then rail road ties over, and then rubber mats
Really??? Interesting. We have sand....with big holes pawed it in at the front of the stall. Need to re-evaluate. The rail road ties don't move?
Nope- they are great!! And stay very level and let things drain if it gets nasty under the mats |
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| SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-20 9:26 PM
Herbie - 2016-04-20 1:31 PM
SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-20 12:29 PM We have sand, then rail road ties over, and then rubber mats
Really??? Interesting. We have sand....with big holes pawed it in at the front of the stall. Need to re-evaluate. The rail road ties don't move?
Nope- they are great!! And stay very level and let things drain if it gets nasty under the mats
Genius!! I'm doing this!! |
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| Just got Stall Savers and LOVE them! I honestly don't know why we didn't get them 15 years ago when we built, we seriously would have saved so much money on shavings and the flooring being thrown out (seriously our floors were dug down deep from horses pawing and pulling it out everytime we cleaned stalls) and I know when I get a place of my own thats the first thing I'm saving up for. Plus the company is super awesome and offer free shipping |
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Location: Winging It in KY | cheeka77 - 2016-04-20 11:32 PM Just got Stall Savers and LOVE them! I honestly don't know why we didn't get them 15 years ago when we built, we seriously would have saved so much money on shavings and the flooring being thrown out (seriously our floors were dug down deep from horses pawing and pulling it out everytime we cleaned stalls) and I know when I get a place of my own thats the first thing I'm saving up for. Plus the company is super awesome and offer free shipping
Let us know how the Stall Saver works in your stalls. I have a critter that paws and we are redoing our stall floors, leveling them out and adding the base back in. Rented a gas powered tamp to pack it down. Now trying to decide what kind of mats that I want to put down but was afraid that the stall savers would not stand up to one that paws alot. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | turtleaut - 2016-04-20 11:26 AM
We are revamping a barn on our property and adding stalls. Currently the floor is just dirt/clay and I have been researching the best flooring to use for the stalls. It looks like most people recommend something called 'crush' (a mix of limestone, etc)? Anyone have any input on this? Those that have used crush, how deep should it be and how do you pack it down. What type of mats do you use?
I want to go ahead and try to get it right from the start so we aren't having to go back in later on :)
What's the weather like in your area every year? |
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| Crush works well. Once it is hard packed, it doesn't really move unless you get massive amount water, ie. flooding.
You can rent packers to pack it down.
As another poster mentioned, rail road ties with mats over them also work. A friend has that in her barn and works well. Make sure to put the mats over the ties as splinters can happen if a horse paws just the ties. |
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Location: Kansas | Ok, someone please explain the railroad ties to me....  |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | HarlanLivesOn - 2016-04-21 2:32 PM Ok, someone please explain the railroad ties to me....
We have a cement alley, the stall floors are lower than the alley so sand, and then rail road ties over top make the ground level with the alley. These are in stalls so they dont have anywhere to move to. And then mats over them. |
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Location: Kansas | SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-21 1:38 PM
HarlanLivesOn - 2016-04-21 2:32 PM Ok, someone please explain the railroad ties to me....
So the ties are just there to even the floor up? Not to help with drainage? |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | HarlanLivesOn - 2016-04-21 2:43 PM SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-21 1:38 PM HarlanLivesOn - 2016-04-21 2:32 PM Ok, someone please explain the railroad ties to me.... So the ties are just there to even the floor up? Not to help with drainage?
No they for sure help with drainage as well. I'm just trying to paint a visual picture :) |
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Location: NE Texas | OK, so do the mats have holes in them to allow drainage? |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Herbie - 2016-04-21 2:56 PM OK, so do the mats have holes in them to allow drainage?
No, but that is a good idea. There is some 'Smegma' that needs to build scraped out under the mats at times but the mats aren't 100% trimmed to size in the stalls either so they self drain in a way, haha. |
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Location: Kansas | SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-21 1:44 PM
HarlanLivesOn - 2016-04-21 2:43 PM SmokinGirlie - 2016-04-21 1:38 PM HarlanLivesOn - 2016-04-21 2:32 PM Ok, someone please explain the railroad ties to me.... So the ties are just there to even the floor up? Not to help with drainage?
OK... thanks! I would have never of thought of this idea. |
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