Is it too late to put some rubber matting down in boggy field?

[SpruceRI]

The ground around my field shelter and hay rack is now an utter bog.

I was hoping to buy some of that black membrane stuff and then lay the holey rubber matting stuff on top, but really can't afford it at the mo, which is why I haven't.

But the ground is now so horrendous, even for me to pick my way across it, that I'm thinking I may have to bite the bullet and get something.

I can't go for gravel or wood chip as that would just disappear into the bog. I can't get any large vehicle down to the field now as it's just too wet, though my 4WD towing a small trailer would probably cope.

Is it too late to lay anything down now? Will it just sink and go lumpy, or should I give it a go?

 

[Holly27]

if i was you id get some hoggin , its like sand and gravel together and it will fill any muddy hole or ground it kind of sticks together and forms a good base under foot it costs about 7 quid a tone from
a pit
thats we did with our track round to field as my boot actually came off in the mud and i got my sock and foot coverd in mud!! dont you just hate it !!!

 

[Eaglestone]

I know exactly how you feel..... I have had wood chippings down for over a year outside my Field Shelter and in my old boys paddock, and that coped very well last winter, even when we got that so so wet period .... but now oh my goodness just a soggy mushy mess that my wheelbarrow just sinks into and I am at my wits end!

I have even put 3 pieces of 4'x3' honeycomb down outside one doorway and my old boy has been sinking into that

so I have had to resort to put about 10 barrow loads of my spare chippings on top!
Outside the other doorway it is just puddles galore and on Sunday, in the gale and rain, we put another 10 barrow loads on top, on the other 'side', and my other horse promptly sank into it, but he didn't care and just carried on cribbing on the wooden post, making the mess worse still

Mind you both sides of the FS inside are bone dry, but the little bu**ers don't seem to be standing in them now the pesky flies have gone!
...............well and my fields have patches that resemble paddy fields and now I am going to have to extend my leccy fencing to a new area, something that I have not done in years ......

So not much help to you really am I, as I am in the same predicament.....

 

[SpruceRI]

Thanks Hipp

Stupid question: where do I find my nearest pit? £7 a ton sounds cheap, did you collect it yourself?

Hi Carol, aagghh this mud is just awful! Ponies are reluctant to come in for their feed now, and for the hay which is in a rack in the bog.

Tried to dig some of the mushy mud away tonight, back down to the hard stuff, but I could only put 4 shovel fulls in a barrow to drag it away over the mush as the wheelbarrow wheels wouldn't go round. So 12 shovelfuls and I was beat!

Darn, should've done something about this in the summer

Thanks for the info about the woodchip and honeycomb matting. My mud is too far gone for either of the above to be of any good now I think : (