Equestrian Loader and Tractor Services
Please explore the site and learn about our services, which include Laser Grading, Arena Grading and Maintenance, Loader and Tractor service, Box Blading, Field Mowing, Seeding, Site cleanup, Compacting and much more.
Don't miss our Custom 3-in-1 graders and Western BBQs
We offer a large verity of seeds for all of your applications:
These BBQ can be made to you specs with custom High heat Paint and logos.
We will have 5 standard models:
Features:
You can grade, rake, and roll your arena at one time saving both time and money.
Owned and Operated by Bill McDonald with over 8 years of experience in laser grading, arena installation, arena maintenance, driveways, pastures, paddocks, seeding and many other services. You don't need to be in the Equestrian fields for our services; we do work in many other fields.
Originally out of the Wellington in West Palm Beach FL, Bill has have been in Pinellas since April 2009.
2997 Brookfield Dr
Almost everyone who rides horses will agree that good footing is a key component to the successful training, performance, and health of our equine partners. There is much more to good footing than meets the eye.
The ideal arena provides a firm foundation of support with the appropriate combination of resiliency, traction, and cushioning ability...without dust. This combination of factors is the reason most of the best arenas consist of three layers.
Footing in an equestrian arena is partly science and partly art. There are as many ideas about what constitutes the best footing as there are people selling and installing footing materials. Most footing compositions are coarse sand augmented with specific percentages of other materials to give the resulting footing good stability, not too loose and yet without compaction, good traction, low dust, long lifespan, and maintainability. Good footing blends can be quite expensive. Typically footing blends are installed over a very thoroughly compacted base material at a depth of about three inches. A typical indoor ring might be about eighty feet by one hundred sixty feet (about 13000 sq ft+ -) with footing material at a depth of three inches.
In such an arena the footing material totals about 120 cubic yards. Special washed sand blended with stone dust to add traction and minimize "looseness", some form of fiber such as crumb rubber, polymer fiber / granules, or ground leather could be priced in the range of $70 - $90 per yard. Even a very basic footing material blend can easily exceed $30/cubic yard. Obviously a dust control/stabilizer/preservative for arena footing material that has the ability to extend the life of the footing material becomes an important consideration and the cost of product such as ArenaKleen is relatively small in comparison to the cost of a quality footing blend.
Unfortunately, many people spend huge amounts to build the indoor riding hall, substantial money goes out for custom footing and the trucking costs to bring it to the stable. Then there may be the additional cost of spreading and leveling it. Once completed the new footing has little dust during initial use. Soon the action of the horses hooves begin to smash, break, wear, and abrade the individual particles. Dust over time will be the result. If treated with ArenaKleen when newly installed, footing breakdown is slowed measurably. Even if breakdown has taken place, ArenaKleen still controls dust and maintains the quality of the footing. Footing consistency and proper "feel" is very important in the professional training and performance of horses.
We offer Single and Dual Grading using Spectra Precision® Laser Equipment with a 7 foot Grademaster Pro Box Blade. The best system for all of your toughest jobs. This combination is a great all around solution for projects such as:
How Does Laser Grading work? The transmitter shown above emits a plane of laser light invisible to the human eye. The plane or "blanket" of laser light extends in all directions covering a diameter of approximately 1 mile. The plane can be tilted in up to 2 directions hence the term dual slope laser.
A receiver mounted on a piece of equipment senses or "receives" the laser signal. Microprocessors then calculate the piece of equipment's elevation relative to the plane of laser light and either makes corrections to the equipment's cutting edge automatically or if in manual mode L.E.D. lights on a monitor tell the operator whether to raise or lower the cutting edge. It's like having an infinite number of grade stakes blanketing the entire project.
All of this technology is fantastic, however it does not take the operator completely out of the quotient. It just allows him to do precision work not possible with conventional grading methods.
Fast, professional field seeding
Please contact:
Bill McDonald
Phone: 727.249.3355
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