Outdoor menage arena irrigation / watering sprinkler thoughts :)

[F for Fidget]

Hi, any advice on arena irrigation much appreciated . We have recently installed 20x40 arena with silica sand and Andrew Bowes stability fibres. We are currently watering and rolling to get it all to settle but looking for the best irrigation system for the dry summer months. In hindsight we should maybe have gone for the leaky pipe system...
Now we are where we are and wondered if you can share how you water yours? We will get a blue pipe up laid to there at some point so could install some permanent sprinklers but as the wind is often changing I'm more thinking of one or two that I can move around.

I've bought a simpler Impulse Water Sprinklerto try in bucket of sand but looking for something more powerful.

Been looking at the following, anyone used them or similar?

Gardena Oscillating Sprinkler Aquazoom L
https://www.worldofwatering.co.uk/p...YzgZTu8-sP5gHcXE96XgUavjASByJzBUaAu9TEALw_wcB

Or something like this.

Claber Impact Tripod Sprinkler Kit- 8715

https://www.greenhousepeople.co.uk/products/3399/impact-on-tripod-base-profy-8715/

 

[Tiddlypom]

Once you've got your initial 4 inches of water all over the arena to soak through and stabilise the surface you shouldn't need to water it regularly.

Mine is a Charles Britton sand and rubber surface, and I was told to keep off it completely until it was fully watered in. That was 11 years ago. It gets a bit deep in a prolonged dry spell, but is still fully useable all year round without watering

 

[F for Fidget]

Ok thanks for that advice

 

[milliepops]

I used ones similar to the second you have linked OP. i had a 20x 60 sand and fibre and due to the exposed location it would get a bit like sand dunes in dry weather, even with our intentially slow drainage. they worked well, i had 3 taps mounted on the outside of the long side fence, so connected up the hoses and lobbed the sprinklers out before i wanted to ride if it had been dry. in about 20 mins it was nicely watered

 

[F for Fidget]

I used ones similar to the second you have linked OP. i had a 20x 60 sand and fibre and due to the exposed location it would get a bit like sand dunes in dry weather, even with our intentially slow drainage. they worked well, i had 3 taps mounted on the outside of the long side fence, so connected up the hoses and lobbed the sprinklers out before i wanted to ride if it had been dry. in about 20 mins it was nicely watered

Great thanks, if you still know the make of them let me know. To confirm you used 3 at the same time? I'll have to see what our water pressure can do. Thanks!

 

[milliepops]

yeah i did. fortunately we had a borehole so i wasn't racking up any bills! i can't remember what they were tbh, i probably got them off amazon and they wouldn't have been expensive