Arena Revamp

Over the Christmas period John's father came down from Queensland for a visit and they decided to do some man bonding by revamping the arena fencing.

The arena is full size with a sand surface, you can see it in these photos:

The problem with the arena fencing was that the posts are actually inside the arena and the railings were on the outside. Now this may not seem like a problem but the issues are that; a. the arena rake cannot get the the edge of the arena to rake out any sand which has accumulated there, and; b. if the horse you are riding moves too far toward the wall, you bang your leg on the posts and if the horse is being naughty they could pull you off.

The other issues were that the posts were all crooked, there weren't enough of them and the railings were buckled as a result which made the arena look run down. Here are some before photos:

 

In the overall plan, the arena will only have two sides as the side closest to the internal road will have a hedge and one short side will be facing the stables and have either a hedge or potted plants so we were able to reuse some of the posts from the sides that are being dismantled which saved us heaps of money.

Here are some construction photos:

 and the finished product:

Nice straight posts and railings which have been cemented in.

Only the last few posts to be removed which will now be easier because of the rain deluge!

As you can see, we've built a garden bed on the road side for he hedging to go into and I also installed an automatic watering system - not that we currently need it...