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| People use salt in their indoor arena for dust control, right? I just saw someone say that on FB --- had a thought. Would the same principal work on a dirt barn aisle? My barn is Incredibly dusty and what used to be a gravel type aisle has been raked over and crushed down to a fine powder it seems. It's much worse in the winter. If I laid a crap ton of salt down and raked it in, would that help?
Needs to just be concrete, but it isn't. |
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Location: Dubuque,IA | Ssalt is very corrosive so I use magnesium chloride flakes for dust control in my indoor and it works great. Don't have to water it takes moisure from the air to work. |
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| thanks! good information. It wouldn't take much to do my little aisle either. Sounds like something that would help! |
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  That's White "Man" to You
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| No salt, no water, just the mag flakes. |
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| Can you buy it anywhere or is it a special order from their website? |
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| star1218 - 2017-01-19 3:00 PM
Can you buy it anywhere or is it a special order from their website?
What state are you in? |
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| Kind of along the same lines, can you use road salt for icy patches around water tanks? I worry that the horses might try to eat it, even though they have free choice loose salt and mineral. |
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| RedHead84 - 2017-01-19 3:28 PM star1218 - 2017-01-19 3:00 PM Can you buy it anywhere or is it a special order from their website? What state are you in?
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Location: Dubuque,IA | Any time you put salt on dirt you will have a mess in the spring as it will be a mud hole never ending. Best to use barn lime or ashes or car litter around horse tanks |
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| The chloride anions are the aggressive species that cause corrosion, not so much the attached cation. Just like when you fill tractor tires with calcium chloride CaCl2 and the rims rust, it's not the calcium ions but the chloride ions that are harmful. So, it's hard to imagine that magnesium chloride MgCl2 is less corrosive than rock salt NaCl. It probably works great, just throwing that out there with the corrosion aspect! |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| star1218 - 2017-01-19 3:00 PM Can you buy it anywhere or is it a special order from their website?
Order it from the website. |
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| A someone else stated, Magnesium Chloride and Calcium Chloride ARE salts and are corrosive. I might try just a light dusting of either, not a ton. You can probably find either at your local feed elevator, farm store rather than order online and pay additional for shipping. |
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