Thread: Building stables but looking for material options

Originally Posted by MickS

Makes a great butte on a pistol range too

I may be wrong Mick, but I got the impression she wanted to shelter the horses not shoot 'em!

Originally Posted by digger

I may be wrong Mick, but I got the impression she wanted to shelter the horses not shoot 'em!

Speaking of buttes................A cowboy, his mare and a ...naaah...

The knock down shelter we have has second hand conveyor belt rubber walls. It came from Oz Stable. See attached picturefrom their website. The knock down kit was not cheap, but a quick solution while I was busy building the house.

Still dreaming of what to install in the final stables;

Sealed reinforced concrete blockwork will work. I have seen a horse almost demolish a single skin brickwork half height stable wall.

Oiled solid hardwood vertical timber cladding is probably the best I have seen, but is expensive.

Beckford.
(my wife has a 16hh thoroughbred, 15.3hh stock horse & a 12.2hh Welsh mountain pony)

For $10,000 we have 4 10 x 12 stables built, paved floors, jarrah lined kickboards, and massive WIWO's with pine pole electric fencing done with the water from the roof running into the tank. a whole stable complex built basically! I call it our "rustic stables" as they let the air in when we want to open up certain doors and keeps the cold out if we want it too!!

If I could build it again though, Id go rubber not jarrah stable lining, after 18 years the white ants have finally moved in!

I've had ponies (welsh and galloways, warmblood) for years.... as long as they cant kick through the outer cladding (tin or whatever) itll be safe, rubber is best!

What the hell is a Galloway??? I have never heard of them as a breed of horse/pony

Originally Posted by dullbird

What the hell is a Galloway??? I have never heard of them as a breed of horse/pony

Google is your friend

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(read the last paragraph)

well that explains why I have never heard of it then they are technically extinct as a breed and only to describe height really...

Sounds like a bit of a mixed breed or should I say diluted now,, much like a cob

Originally Posted by MickS

Makes a great butte on a pistol range too

butte (byt)
n. Chiefly Western U.S.
A hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding area and has sloping sides and a flat top.

butt
n

2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Shooting) Shooting Archery
a. a mound of earth behind the target on a target range that stops bullets or wide shots

Having said that, "butte" is derived from butt, the mound of earth behind the target.