lunge track on a field.

[pony&cow]

A friend of mine has made a simple lunge track on a field out of wood chip and bark straight onto grass. Has anyone else done similar? What did you use? Hows your natural drainage? Hows it holding out?

 

[Goldenstar]

Many years ago I worked on a yard where the bedding was sawdust , we skipped out the boxes to remove the droppings then mucked out into a different barrow with the contained mainly sawdust this wAs tipped in a paddock just off the yard and raked ino a big circle it worked well we lunged on it in frozen weather ( it was before you had schools every where )and they loved rolling on it .
You had to rake it now and again.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

I used to be on a yard that did the same with straw bedding, threw out the poo and used the wet for the track.

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

It must depend on the soil and the climate: it is possible to make an arena by pouring woodchip on a field, but it wont work for long, good drainage is essential, and a surface which wont rot and become slippery.
Most grass round here grows on clay, which gets very puddled if worked, and most cheap woodchip arenas are only used for light work. They rot down and need replaced.