Stables in field

[Lincs Lass]

Customer has a large stable/shelter in a field ,she has a few pet sheep couple of Shetland ponies and two Llamas ,,the problem she has ,is the ground infront of the stable block is paddled up badly ,,she has used straw, shredded carpet to try to keep it dry but it all just purges up and its back to mud again .
her idea is to dig the whole area out of cover it with clean hardcore ,then put rubber matting over to soften it for the hooves .
It works out at needing 40 tn of soil out and back in with the hardcore 150mm deep ,not cheap .
Anybody got a cheaper solution and less digging out .
Access is a pita as the hardcore would be tipped 200 yrd away and brought round with a 1 tn dumper ,,,the gates in the paddock are only 5ft wide

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Stone will still mess up and the money will be wasted in time. If cost allows then some concrete panel seconds laid in then over topped with the mats would be a fine way to do it.

 

[bobk]

Customer has a large stable/shelter in a field ,she has a few pet sheep couple of Shetland ponies and two Llamas ,,the problem she has ,is the ground infront of the stable block is paddled up badly ,,she has used straw, shredded carpet to try to keep it dry but it all just purges up and its back to mud again .
her idea is to dig the whole area out of cover it with clean hardcore ,then put rubber matting over to soften it for the hooves .
It works out at needing 40 tn of soil out and back in with the hardcore 150mm deep ,not cheap .
Anybody got a cheaper solution and less digging out .
Access is a pita as the hardcore would be tipped 200 yrd away and brought round with a 1 tn dumper ,,,the gates in the paddock are only 5ft wide

I've a hay customer with really bad access , she's put down those plastic mats and transformed it , they're v expensive though

 

[Lincs Lass]

No access to get big machinery in ,,when its dry ,the ground is rock hard ,,theres only 6 inches of soil and then its getting into natural stone ,,cliff land .

 

[Classichay]

We dig out 300mm remove all the slop and use tarmac planings they pack tight and re weld. It’s what we’ve used for our yard and we have shire horses over it daily as well as tractors. But you will make a mess to sort a mess, they need to keep it raked and stop horses having free roam but makes a very hard standing. 200.00 a load of planings at the mo so a load of 4-5 would soon sort that no problem. Can soon hire a 2.8 ton digger and a 1.5 ton dumper and shift a load in no time. Pile up the slop somewhere to drain and it soon becomes top soil again in the summer to spread out

 

[Lincs Lass]

I've a hay customer with really bad access , she's put down those plastic mats and transformed it , they're v expensive though

Shes a devoted animal lover so I dont think money is a problem ,,well not with the work she does ,,she of to Bulgaria this week for 3 months working on a film for Netflix

 

[Lincs Lass]

We dig out 300mm remove all the slop and use tarmac planings they pack tight and re weld. It’s what we’ve used for our yard and we have shire horses over it daily as well as tractors. But you will make a mess to sort a mess, they need to keep it raked and stop horses having free roam but makes a very hard standing. 200.00 a load of planings at the mo so a load of 4-5 would soon sort that no problem. Can soon hire a 2.8 ton digger and a 1.5 ton dumper and shift a load in no time. Pile up the slop somewhere to drain and it soon becomes top soil again in the summer to spread out

Getting rid of the slop isnt a problem ,,there a big natural hole in the same field to dump it in.
By the time I get round to doing it ,it will be April anyway and alot drier

 

[Classichay]

Easy to sort then, don’t faff round with trac mats etc they’re just a temporary over priced expense.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

No access to get big machinery in ,,when its dry ,the ground is rock hard ,,theres only 6 inches of soil and then its getting into natural stone ,,cliff land .

Don’t need big machinery, you can get them in 1.2m x 1.2m slabs, dumper / mini digger job like like laying big paving slabs??

 

[Purli R]

Cheaper option would be...... to get rid of the ponies & llamas.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Don’t need big machinery, you can get them in 1.2m x 1.2m slabs, dumper / mini digger job like like laying big paving slabs??

They wont work as Ill be doing it on my lonesum and I cant be on the digger and the dumper at the same time in two different places ,,with loose stuff I can take a few loads in the field first then go back for the digger ,track it back round and level it

 

[Lincs Lass]

Cheaper option would be...... to get rid of the ponies & llamas.

And turn to woollies into lambchops

 

[bobk]

They wont work as Ill be doing it on my lonesum and I cant be on the digger and the dumper at the same time in two different places ,,with loose stuff I can take a few loads in the field first then go back for the digger ,track it back round and level it

If you put a slab in you just move the wet bit

 

[liammogs]

Grass mats? Allow water water through but mats are able to hold weight!

 

[Thick Farmer]

Why can’t she get a bigger gate and better access?

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Depending where you are, chalk is cheap, sometimes free, and packs down with just tracking over it, instantly repairable with a bit more chalk, if it gets scraped off into the field its just lime and helps the soil structure.
Did I mention chalk?

 

[Lincs Lass]

Depending where you are, chalk is cheap, sometimes free, and packs down with just tracking over it, instantly repairable with a bit more chalk, if it gets scraped off into the field its just lime and helps the soil structure.
Did I mention chalk?

Thats what it will be as the caulk quarry is a mile away and they have screened road planning's or did have

 

[ifindoubtflatout]

Fix skids on the shelter and keep moving it around the field

 

[toquark]

Thats a lot of stuff to shift with a 1t dumper, you'll end up knackering the rest of the field removing the old soil & hardcore. No way of getting a larger tracked dumper say 5 or 8t? They hardly mark the ground and would take a fraction of the time.

 

[Classichay]

Thats a lot of stuff to shift with a 1t dumper, you'll end up knackering the rest of the field removing the old soil & hardcore. No way of getting a larger tracked dumper say 5 or 8t? They hardly mark the ground and would take a fraction of the time.

till you turn then it’s game over. Easier to just make one set of tracks, then just track digger down both sides to collapse them in afterwards.