Need the hive mind here. I have a sand/clay arena with a red clay base. Unfortunately, one area of the land has grey gumbo clay UNDER the arena - under the base- underground. WHen it gets wet, this clay has the consistency of putty (and its sticky like that too). Hooves go right through the base and into the gumbo clay - Of course we did not know it was there when the arena was constructed, and there is no other place it can go, and the irrigation is already in.
So I am looking for ideas for solutions. We have tried digging it out and filling the spaces with crushed concrete - but the gumbo seems endless and bottomless.
And ideas?
Not an expert by any means, but maybe you could spot-patch over the area with one of those mud grid products, maybe combined with some sort of rock underneath too? The grid will distribute the load over a bigger area and maybe prevent the breakthrough.
I had a similar thought because I’ve been looking at these mud grids for some wet places on a trail I want to make.
