Door and shed curtains?

[Bluey]

Some wonder about adding curtains of some kind to the stall doors or front of sheds, to keep wind, rain, snow or flies out of there.

We used to have a blizzard snow wrap-around problem in our barn overhang, that we resolved first with plastic strips, later with part walls in strategic places.
We also have wind screens in other places, just not where horses walk by.
We bought our wind screens from here:

http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/product/custom-shade-cloth/shade-cloth

Our plastic strips from farmtek.com and they had all kinds of those and the hardware to mount them with.

I have seen pictures on the internet of plain greenhouse shade cloth used like we used the strips, for horse entrances.

What have others used that worked well?

Our plastic strips work well, but we really have whipping winds and over the years some keep breaking up.
We may try next some of those wider wind screens, see if they stand up better.

Here are some pictures of this.
First, our problem.
Second, the plastic strips, worked great.
Next ones, off the internet, the screens:

[NoSuchPerson]

When my current riding mule was a foal, I had shade cloth screens on the front of the shed in the pasture he shared with his dam. The shade cloth was only attached at the top and hit the foal at about chest height. He spent endless hours running back and forth through the shade cloth, letting it drag over his body.

I still use shade cloth panels on my run-in sheds, but I put them in solid frames, with a board at horse butt height to keep the equines from breaking the shade cloth out of the frames. The equines seem to like the way the panels provide shade and the feeling of a barrier, yet still allow airflow and relatively unobstructed vision.

[leaf]

I like my horse fly nets from Horseflynet.com.
See through, durable, and easy to hang.

[Bluey]

[QUOTE=leaf;8401809]
I like my horse fly nets from Horseflynet.com.
See through, durable, and easy to hang.[/QUOTE]

Thank you for that.

I was wondering where those pictures came from, I see it is from that company.

Good to know.

[clanter]

the top two feet of our barn had fiberglass panels that we could open in the summer… most I have replaced with the shade cloth as we deal with heat much more so than cold… the shade cloth does not let driving rain penetrant

[Brigitte]

Bluey, that snow drift is incredible! Not at all what I was imagining. As much snow and drifting as you had, it is pretty cool that the strips did work.

[Chall]

Pic #4, my first thought was of a stage, “Aaaand heeeeereees Johnny”.

[Bluey]

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Bluey, that snow drift is incredible! Not at all what I was imagining. As much snow and drifting as you had, it is pretty cool that the strips did work.[/QUOTE]

The engineers call that “wind vortex” and happens on corners of buildings, can even move buildings around if strong enough.

We didn’t have that much snow that storm, less than a foot, if I remember, it just much piled up right there.
The other picture we had more snow, but it blew right over and away, not under there.

A local barn lost the SW corner to that and the load of snow piled on their roof and walls in there from that vortex effect.
They rebuilt with much stronger framing and I think maybe some design changes, closing it so the wind and snow would blow by, not suck into nocks and crannies.