Have any of you seen, made, or have any creative ideas on how I could make a:
LIGHT
EASY TO REMOVE AND INSTALL
SECURE - MEANING STAY IN PLACE
wind block for the base of my yoke doors?
There’s good ventilation in my barn and some days too good. Sawdust and hay bits
blow down the aisle if we have winds over 10 MPH.
Here’s the opening and my doors:
Any ideas or creative solutions for something to temporarily sit down/attach on windy days?
Cut a piece of 3/4" rubber mat to fit and hang with zipties?
A 1/2" may work if your wind is not like ours.
That’s one interesting idea Bluey - thank you! I’d rather have something I can place and remove
for asthetic reasons - any other creative solutions?
Well, for that reason, the awful winds here, we made the bottom of our stalls and their doors solid to 2’.
Works great, maybe you could add a solid metal extension that flips up and lets down, as needed, if you don’t want the bottom to be solid all the time?
plastic slats over the door going out of the barn? Bluey uses those to stop wind blown snow from getting into her run-in shed
like these
just covering the bottom half of the yoke stall door I would not think would much of a deterrent for wind (and would need to extend to near the floor otherwise wind would blow through
Plywood? If you think it might look bad, you could make it removable pretty easily by just attaching it the the wire with bungee cords/zip ties/baling twine.
something like these stall guards but wider solid area? easy to make if you have a sewing machine. 
or how about clear hard viny panels like used instead of glass windows? visit your home improvement store.
better picture of one you can easily make- find sturdy vinyl material.
I just wrap in a tarp, tied on with hay string, works great, lightweight, easy.
Yes, those plastic slats would work but block airflow into the barn at the outside dutch door opening. I have a heaves horse so need max ventilation INTO the barn.
My goal is something sitting on the floor that fits in snug and sits up so many inches or to the bottom of the yoke door. Ive tested the concept by a piece of wood at the base and it works but they are heavy for taking in and out on a somewhat regular basis.
Thanks @wildlifer Can you tell me more? I can’t picture what you are describing? A picture even perhaps?
Thanks Marla. I like the concept - using fabric somehow set to be firm and sit down in there on windy days is an idea. Fun that I could have my farm name on it too.
Thanks Stormy. Plywood is an idea - seems heavier than I want but would be sturdy and long lasting.
When we had foals, we would close in this type of area with 1/4 inch plywood panels zip-tied in place. Lightweight, but did the job, and very easy to apply and remove.
Wouldn’t hold up to a large horse trying to jail-break, but ours respected the barriers.
If you needed to add and remove such panels more often than we did, and more quickly than possible with zip ties, perhaps Velcro would work.
I’m not sure I have a pic, I’ll have to look, but I use this method to make a windblock out of a gate I hung for that purpose (so you could use a smaller tarp or cut an old one down). I wrap the tarp around the whole gate so it doesn’t matter which way the wind is blowing (I have a noise hypersensitivity so I don’t want constant tarp flapping noise). Then I use hay string thru the tarp grommets all around the edges to tie it on to the gate securely. I leave mine up all winter, so I tie the crap out of it & added extra grommets using a cheap kit I bought at the hardware store. If you wanted to take it on or off more often, you could probably rig up a system with snaps.
What about clear acrylic sheets? You could drill a couple of holes through it and just attach some hooks to hook into the mesh panels of the door.
This seems like a DIY-able project. Me? I’d get some 1x2" furring strips from the lumber yard, and a roll of heavy-guage vinyl, something like this.
Securely wrap and staple the vinyl around your strip, put some eyebolts into the wood, and hang from the bottom of the stall gate. Install small hooks on the solid stall wall at the same height, and hang your contraption there when it’s not in use. Would be nearly invisible, lightweight, and low cost (so if it only lasts a season, big whoop.
A threshold might keep bedding in the stall without filling that whole space with something solid.
Those suckers are sharp. I personally wouldn’t use them around my horses because of that.
Yeah, good point. 
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