Surface topper for deep school?

A

Ahrena

Well-Known Member
Joined
28 June 2007
Messages
1,872
Visit site
Hi all,
Now I’m using my arena more often, I’m finding it’s riding pretty deep especially in the dry weather. It’s sand and rubber.

I’ve tried rolling instead of harrowing (helps but still gets deep quickly) and watering (helps but practical element of moving sprinklers every 20 minutes 6 times doesn’t really work).

I have a sneaky suspicion it probably wasn’t made with equestrian grade sand. It’s better in the areas with more rubber.

I’m pondering some longer term solutions and wondering if I can top it up with something to stabilise it.

Does anyone have any recommendations? Can you add fibre to a sand and rubber arena or should I add rubber crumb? Any idea of how much I would need for a 20 x 40 arena and a vague idea of costs?

A whole new surface is sadly out of budget!

Thanks all 🙂
 
I might be talking out of my backside, but I ‘think’ that I’ve heard of Clopf fibre being successfully used as a top up to stabilise deep riding sand and rubber arenas.

CLOPF Fibre Equestrian Surface - Martin Collins

Premium Equestrian Surface solutions with CLOPF equestrian fibre. Engineered for high standards and long-lasting performance.
martincollins.com
 
The clopf works pretty well.
Prob pull the top rubber back, mix the clopf with the sand, puller rubber back as a top dressing, possibly with a top up of rubber.
Martin Collins will advise
 
Tiddlypom said:
I might be talking out of my backside, but I ‘think’ that I’ve heard of Clopf fibre being successfully used as a top up to stabilise deep riding sand and rubber arenas.

CLOPF Fibre Equestrian Surface - Martin Collins

Premium Equestrian Surface solutions with CLOPF equestrian fibre. Engineered for high standards and long-lasting performance.
martincollins.com
Click to expand...
Yes we added Clopf to a sand and rubber surface, it transformed it into the most amazing surface. We hardly ever had to level it and that includes lots of jumping. It rode like old turf- just brilliant.
 
Brilliant, thank you. I wasn’t sure if the fibre types surfaces would work with rubber.

I can just about cope with levelling and rolling after every other use at the minute but next year I’ll have 3 in work instead of 1 so I need to sort something before then!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top