Wood Chip - please help

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I'm having an arena built. Would you believe today Cushion Ride have let us down and said they won't process our order!!!! The machines are all on site. We don't have loads of money to go down the sand route etc... Does anyone have any suggestions of GOOD reasonably priced wood chip horse arena producer???? Please help - the dream's within grasping distance but we just can't get there
 
Contact Ascot Arenas-Paul is very knowledgeable and helpful

Am sure he will be able to source you what you need

Good luck
 
You lucky thing they have done you a favour - cushionride is rubbish and I had to have ours taken up and replaced with sand and rubber it was so dangerous/slippery, the after sales service at cushionride is also appalling- I too would look at Flexiride!
 
Avoid like the plague recycled wood chip. Although ours was supposed to have been through metal detectors, we were constantly pulling out bits of metal, rusty nails, plastic and pieces of glass.
The chips were too big and got wedged in the horses feet which required brute force to remove. The surface was so slippery that stumbles and falls were not uncommon and it was unwise to jump on. It was so slippery that a vet once asked me to stop lunging as it was unsafe to carry on.
Stopped using it completely and schooled in a field instead.
 
About 10 years ago when I had little money, I really needed a school as our land is heavy clay and impossible to ride in the fields. I used Cushionride and it lasted well for about seven years. Not my surface of choice but it did the job.

I now have a sand and clopf school which is absolute luxury in comparison.
 
Hi - I know its no help as they cant process your order but I have cushionride and it is fabulous - takes a couple of months to bed in and I do have v good drainage underneath -but I loose jump him 3ft on it - school on it - lunge on it and turnout on it (every night through winter) and it drains beautifully - is NEVER EVER slippery and keeps them lovey and clean - I agree dont have standard woodchip but Cushionride is fantastic - I bought mine through Giffords (0121 553 1910) although uk cushion ltd also sell it. Good luck - you will forget all the hassle of having the arena put in once it is built x
 
having used a woodchip school in the past I would say it gets slippery, it compacts very quickly, you have to top it up often which is why most people use other materials.
 
Not what you want to hear but I wouldn't waste your money on a wood chip surface - it will end up costing you more in the long run.

I have ridden on a few and they can get very slippery - I have seen too many horses fall over on them to ever want to ride on one again.

They also break down fairly quickly and you need to top them up.

I really would recommend looking at equestrian sand and then adding something like Clopf, fibre, etc to it when you can afford it.
 
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