Well I have an outdoor arena and the grass turned to mud which turned to dried hard impossible to work on footing so I was looking into something I could do for a suitable footing that won't hurt my horses feet. I thought of sand but it's quite expensive.
i've only seen saw dust for bedding for the pony rides at fairs and stuff because it's easy to just scoop the poop up w/ it and throw it all away.... i just think that for out door saw dust would cause a lot of problems... and when it gets wet it smells...
yeah never heard of using sawdust for arena footing most places around here just us sand it stays around. dont think sawdust would stick around with a good windstorm. we have alot of those around here
I've ridden in a saw dust arena.. it will become quite dusty as it breaks down even more. Unless you have a major hook up in saw dust, it really isn't cheaper because you have to keep adding to it.
I have seen is used once but it was mixed with something else but the smell was horrandous. Whenever you got in that arena, the strength of the smell of shavings was horrible and I don't mean that litghtly. I would never go there for showing again.
no sawdust isn't a good footing. It breaks down fast when stepped on and becomes dusty. I love the new wax coated sands that are out there, and stone-dust with a dirt/sand on top is great, but needs to be watered
I have only seen sawdust used in stalls and aisle ways. We have dirt/sand and they tractor it every so often when it gets too hard. We did at one point have wood chips for the indoor, i hated them, sand is much better and softer!!!
I was going to use blue stone dust and sand mix...
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