for those who have a woodfibre surface (also in CR)

loz9

loz9

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hi, please can i pick your brains if you have a woodfibre surface!!

who did you get your surface from?
what initial depth did you lay it at?
how long have you had it down?
is it still riding well? have you had any problems?
also did you lay it yourself & was it very time consuming/difficult?

thankyou!!
 
Giffords

8 inches - will be adding four more when I get round to organising it

Only a few months

Mine was meant as much so I could keep the horses at home and give them somewhere to play in as somewhere to ride. I have three ponies out am, two horses out pm and everyone has to show off their best speed and aerial moves on it, as well as attempting to dig to Australia, which means that it needs to be sorted out (poo picked, raked, flattened) every time before I ride or lunge on it. The maintenance is taking me around half an hour a day and I'm riding or lunging on it for a couple of hours. It's getting far more use than we ever thought it would!

I laid it with a couple of local guys. It is pretty hard work. Ours was a strange one, it's above ground on a well draining piece of land so we just put down a membrane and the wood fibre. The lorry couldn't get on to it to spread from the far side, which would have made a huge difference. We borrowed a digger with a big bucket and a tipping trailer which helped.

We did ours on a tight budget as we just didn't know how much I'd use it. I am very pleased with its performance so far, of course I'd have loved a fantastic surface but this has done us proud.
 
Giffords also and the membrane.

10" initially put in, was easy to spread but we had a JCB, just had to rake the corners level. Took about 3 months to bed down properly, but it now rides brilliantly and didnt freeze in all the snow we had.

We do turn out in it am and ride upto 6 horses (or lunge) a day, and it is brilliant now.

Maintenance wise, I go round with mini tractor and chain harrows and takes me 10 minutes. Once a month pull sides in and rake corners out.

Initially wanted sand and rubber but the council refused this, and am suprisingly pleased with this surface.
 
We used to have one, they are very good in the winter as they are still usable in frosty conditions, unlike many of the sand and sand mix surfaces.

Sometimes the horses would lose their footing a bit when cantering quickly around a tight corner if we were jumping, but for general schooling we had no problems. As a budget surface it's pretty good.
 
We had a Cushionride (Giffords) surface here when we moved in, I believe the starting depth was 8 inches, it was about 4 years old. Last year I topped it up (4 inches) with Easiride (Hadfields) as they were slightly cheaper, it has taken ages to settle but is about right now.
 
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