Laboratory to test a sand sample.

Bill Turtle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Essex
Can anyone supply me with details of a lab which could test a sample of sand from a menage to ascertain what type of sand has been supplied.
We have built a menage, with silica sand supplied by an equestrian surface company. After a years use and regular rolling and levelling it still does not ride well, so I need to have it independently tested to see whether I was supplied with the product which I paid for.
Any leads much appreciated.
 

Bill Turtle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Essex
The sand will not "knit" or bind together and so when a horse is lunged or jumped it can dislodge the sand down to the membrane, which could also lead to injury to the animal. This has lead me to question whether the sand supplied was the high grade silica type which I paid for.
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
I was told manège sand should be smooth shaped grains as angular ones tend to go hard and become impermeable.

Perhaps mixing in some angular stuff may help.

This quarry is now shut just up the road from us which supplied the more angular stuff.

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Output from the washing plant at the Maes-y-Droell Quarry of J Stoddard & Son at Llanarmon, Denbighshire.
 

ScottL

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Farnham
Sounds like it could be because of a bad grading or particle sized distribution. Have you got a declaration of performance of the material. This should be available and gives an envelope of individual particle sizes your sand should fall into. When you get it tested you can then compare it to this and this will determine if it within spec
 

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