Oh my giddy aunt!!!

[Parrotperson]

Hope this link works.

I would pay a lot of money for this. Doesn’t seem to get blocked but I would think there are inspection hatches just in case.

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[ycbm]

Brilliant but very pricey, I'm sure.. I should think that's adapted from farm usage. It would pay for itself in big stables in reduction of time paid for staff but the piping would cost a fortune to retrofit.

We can all dream

 

[Parrotperson]

Oh I intend to dream! .

In yards of hundreds (doesn’t Gordon Elliot have 400 odd in training?) it would pay for itself.

I’m back to my dastardly plan of teaching all nags to muck themselves out!

 

[ycbm]

I've seen other systems in Germany, I think, where there is a hatch in the floor onto a conveyor belt. Also brilliant and doesn't require the machinery to create the suction.
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[CanteringCarrot]

I've seen a similar system in the USA.

Also, back in the day I had a horse at a barn in the USA that had a conveyor system of sorts under the stalls and barn floor. Similar to what you see in cow barns. They called it the "barn cleaner" and it was handy. Just spit it out onto the manure spreader trailer, and you could haul it away.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

That's added to the ever-growing list of what to spend my lottery win on!

 

[Palindrome]

I think less expensive and possibly more efficient is the the system were the partitions slide away and you muck out directly with a tractor :

They advertise 14 stables mucked out in half an hour, probably depends on how far is the muck heap.

 

[SEL]

I think less expensive and possibly more efficient is the the system were the partitions slide away and you muck out directly with a tractor :

They advertise 14 stables mucked out in half an hour, probably depends on how far is the muck heap.

Actually had this when I was a kid in Germany. Deep litter then at some seemingly random (inconvenient) time all the partitions would be slid (or not slide and need a good whack) and in came the tractor.

I went back to the UK and had to be taught how to muck out. Still hate it.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I've seen other systems in Germany, I think, where there is a hatch in the floor onto a conveyor belt. Also brilliant and doesn't require the machinery to create the suction.
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That is probably the system that I saw at the École nationale d'équitation (commonly known as the cadre noir) in Saumur a few years ago.

Each box has a kind of conveyer in the middle under a cover. Lift the cover, push the bedding in there and it is pulled to a collector that runs behind all the boxes and at the end is an elevator to put it on the muck heap.

There's also a system for dispensing pellet feed.

 

[LEC]

The conveyor one often breaks down and can have a lot of issues.

 

[Titchy Reindeer]

I think less expensive and possibly more efficient is the the system were the partitions slide away and you muck out directly with a tractor :

They advertise 14 stables mucked out in half an hour, probably depends on how far is the muck heap.

My riding school has these in their "new" barn. Normally mucked out every Monday. It takes two people to be very efficient (someone to sweep muck from the sides in front on the tractor) but can easily be done by one person alone and takes them a fraction of the time it takes to muck out the same sized old barn, done by bobcat going into each stable individually to get the worst and finishing of by hand.