Arena Surface Banking up at sides

[Dino7]

Does anyone have any genius ways of dragging arena surfaces back in when they bank at the sides?

We have always done it by hand with rakes but its back breaking. I recently saw a video with Piggy March and she was riding away from the track as they had dragged the sides in 'with the tractor' but not yet levelled it and that got me wondering if I was missing a trick?!

Could you just use the bucket on a tractor? Any other ideas?

 

[Abacus]

We did ours recently with a little digger, and are now being more diligent about harrowing it (chain harrow on a quad) every week. I don't see why you shouldn't use a tractor bucket. I do hanker after one of those arena levellers that have a side blade to bring in the sides and corners.

ArenaMate Leveller Type 3 | ArenaMate ®

The ArenaMate ® Type 3 leveller is the most versatile horse arena harrow designed to mix and level sand, fibre, synthetic and waxed equestrian arena surfaces.

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[PinkvSantaboots]

They recently did the one I use with a small digger then the leveled it and harrowed and it did the job, we now have a decent covering in the middle now it's not all up the sides.

 

[FestiveG]

What about a snow plough type blade on the tractor, angled to shove the surface away from the edge?

 

[Cortez]

There are arena levellers with a built in side share that pulls banks back onto the track, other than that it's the good old hand rake.