Is there anything to make a pen on concrete?

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Basically little horse has an injured check ligament and is still on box rest. His stable is getting really hot and stuffy though. I have wooden boxes which tbh are pretty much useless in summer and normally he'd be out in this weather.
I tried to stab electric posts into a semi hard surface yesterday (rolled planings and hardcore) bit it was impossible so ive resorted to tying electric tape from his box to the fence but really its too big a area. He is standing quietly eating a haynet at the minute but i could do with a corner post at least to lessen the area. Any ideas?
 
We use cattle hurdles but I guess you wont want that expense LOL. You could buy a fencing spike to make a hole in the planings for the plastic post.
 
Sheep hurdles are cheap and easy to handle. You can stick bamboo poles down the holes in the end tubes and run an electric fence on that tied on with cable ties. Or cable tie electric fence posts to the inside of them if you want the line lower down as well.
 
There are a couple of different things I've used in the past. You can get metal posts that bolt into the ground but you then have to attach either plastic or wooden posts before adding electric fence via insulators.

The most practical I've found is postcrete a wooden fence post into a bucket and add insulators and electric fence
 
My friend has used herras fencing very well with her horse who had to have a minimal area to graze on. This was in an already fenced paddock but the fencing has proved ideal for her horse. The panels are 6ft and come with feet and then you can have a clip to clip them together top and bottom. They are quite sturdy set in a circular formation.

The drawback is that they are expensive - I sourced her 10 really decent panels, with feet and clips and a gate and it came to about £500 but of course its your to use forever and you can always add more panels as time goes by and make a really good round pen for lunging and loose work at a later date. It's certainly been a god send for my friend who has managed to turn out and bring her horse back into a level of work following injury and rehab.

There's no reason to not be able to use them on a hard surface - that's what they are designed for after all.
 
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Wheels said:
There are a couple of different things I've used in the past. You can get metal posts that bolt into the ground but you then have to attach either plastic or wooden posts before adding electric fence via insulators.

The most practical I've found is postcrete a wooden fence post into a bucket and add insulators and electric fence
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A friend of mine concreted posts in to old car tyres then ran electric round
 
I use those plastic posts you find at road works to make corners, the sort on a heavy rubbery base. My local council depot gave me a dozen ready for scrap which are fine for what I want. They won't take a lot of tension but in the field I poke a small stake inside to hold them, on concrete a heavy weight on the base might do if your horse is respectful of electric tape.
 
If you only need one corner post could you fill a bucket with concrete and stick an electric fence post in it, or a wooden pole and attach an insulator to it? Or drill a small hole into the concrete and put a pole in it - you could fill it again afterwards?
 
We've used electric tape with the very large traffic cones and a car tyre over the top of the cone to give it some weight on the base.
 
Could you fill a couple of oil drums with water and use them as posts to wrap electric tape round perhaps?

It really depends on how trustworthy the horse is not to barge through it.


I'm planning on making a yard pen myself next week, we're going to attach elec fence right across the yard to the stable opposite, and do a cross section from the stable on the other side of the L shaped yard so the horse will have a 18x12' space outside the stable.
 
I use large traffic cones with electric fence posts inserted in centre of each and electric rope on the posts - sometimes electrified sometimes not.
 
Thanks, some great idea's. Generally he's 100% trustworthy and would never dream of touching fencing (he's the one who when the thugs used to go through the fencing to better grass he'd still be the other side alone and upset, even though all he had to do was step over the trashed fence) but he has been in for months and its really vital he doesn't let rip at this point so i cant take any risks.
 
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