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| My two empty stalls have flooded after a downpour all night.
One stall is bare floor - with maybe an inch of standing water.
The other I JUST covered with 7 bags of pellets. They’re soaked and there is standing water where I purposely left the floor bare.
Problem is, new horse coming in tomorrow night (just over 24 hours) aaaaaand we’re expecting a lot more rain this week.
I need two fixes:
1) the stall with he pellets. How do I dry it out?! Is stripping the new bedding my only option?
2) outside the barn along the walls that flooded - what can I do temporarily until I can get an erosion company out??? Stack bales of landscaping straw? Lay down bags of gravel? |
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| The inside of the barn needs to higher ground than outside and water around the barn needs to have a way to drain. My barn in on a tiny hill. I live on the coast and we have fairly flat land |
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| This barn was cut into a hill :/
I just bought some flood barrier things on amazon. My empty stall is already almost dried (so the new horse can go there), but the stall with all the pelleted bedding is still soaking wet.... |
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| Short term not much can be done unless you want to sacrifice more pellets to dry the water. If there’s still standing water a wet/dry shop vac? Provided more water won’t come in it’s place.
We have one stall that will flood with lots of rain or melt. We plan to use limestone this spring to bring the grade up. We also had gutters installed on the barn which helped a ton. |
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| OhMax - 2018-02-04 2:06 PM
Short term not much can be done unless you want to sacrifice more pellets to dry the water. If there’s still standing water a wet/dry shop vac? Provided more water won’t come in it’s place.
We have one stall that will flood with lots of rain or melt. We plan to use limestone this spring to bring the grade up. We also had gutters installed on the barn which helped a ton.
That’s what I think I’ll do - move half the wet stuff to the empty stall, and then add dry pellets to both. Thank you!! |
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| For short term--this what I have done. I bought cinderblocks and put them down. I piled some dirt on the outside edge. This has worked well. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| I put gutters on my barn and that helped quite a bit. I still need to have somebody come and do dirt work though. |
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Location: North Dakota | The gutters are number one-then follow up with dirt work on the exterior. If the interior is wet and it is still raining-dig a sump pit hole and buy a good sump pump and make the water go to the sump pit. |
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Location: Windoming | Gutters! I had the same problem. Lime to dry out the stall after water has been removed. |
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| Just dig a ditch to drain the barn and direct the water away from your barn ..
a shovel doesn't cost much .. |
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| Build a floor. Railroad ties laid in at 4’ spaces, then 2x12s at 1/2 inch intervals over that. Lay down floor mats and shavings. Boom. Problem solved. Lasts just about forever. |
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Location: /ARKANSAS | I dug shallow ditches around my barn and threw the dirt between barn and ditch to build it up some. You don't need to dig deep, just enough that water running through it will make it deeper. You really have to take in account where the most water runs off the barn or another pasture with higher ground. Then just keep the ditches free of debris. I also have a pony barn that has wood floor because of flooding, treated 4X4's put 6-12 inches apart and some good floor board.
Edited by fastwrapn3 2018-02-08 4:12 PM
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Location: Mississippi | OhMax - 2018-02-04 8:06 AM Short term not much can be done unless you want to sacrifice more pellets to dry the water. If there’s still standing water a wet/dry shop vac? Provided more water won’t come in it’s place. We have one stall that will flood with lots of rain or melt. We plan to use limestone this spring to bring the grade up. We also had gutters installed on the barn which helped a ton.
Crushed limestone? Will this set up and level the floors out? I need to level mine as well. Would you just put pellets over this or dirt too?
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 I'm doing it!!
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| Our stalls are lined with clay. Our dog had puppies in one, and dug a hole, it started flooding with heavy rain, so we packed clay in the hole, no more water in stall. |
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