A few years back I saw someone who had put fencing around their hot walker so their horses would walk straighter and not swing their butts every which way.
Anyways, it gave me an idea. Why not convert a normal walker into a eurowalker? If you put fencing on each side and hung sufficiently heavy panels from the arms would this not work?
I don’t need a eurowalker, and I would probably never attempt this. But has anyone ever tried to make their own eurowalker? I see used hot walkers for 500-1k, significantly less than the cost of a eurowalker.
I know this may be crazy, but its where my mind wanders 
Following as I have wondered the same. I’m fairly handy, and have handy family with welding experience. So the logistics for me would not be a problem. Just curious if the motor could handle it, and if there’s something else I’m overlooking.
Some of the cost of the loose walkers is in the many panels it takes, since they generally have a larger pattern than the smaller arm walkers and those don’t even require any kind of fence around them.
I expect you could reinforce the arms to handle that weigh?
A local cutting trainer has one of those Priefert Eurowalkers and he absolutely loves it, said his horses are doing very well with it for all he uses it and saves some of the time someone would have to be riding them and warming and cooling them while the horses get to walk steadily in there.
We used the arm walkers in race training, from putting them out there to stretch their legs while cleaning their stalls and so much more than light exercise.
Horses seemed to like to go on it, it was routine fun times for them, got to watch others and all that was going on, no one dragged along taking them there.
I wonder if they feel the same with the Eurowalker, being more confined?
I’m not sure if you would even need to reinforce the arms at all, I have seen some horses really tug on them. Once I saw a full grown racehorse sit back on its haunches and put a lot of weight on the arm, the halter broke but the arm was fine.
The racehorses I was around were NOT thrilled with the hotwalker. My personal horses didn’t mind but I wasn’t thrilled with how being tied made some of them not use themselves correctly.
If I ever have a time and space, I may try to make my own eurowalker just for the h*ll of it.
Now that is true, horses on an arm hot walker will walk on it any one way, not the way you would ride them.
Horses would move more naturally when walking loose in a moving box, as the Eurocisers provide.
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