HoofGrid, HomeGrid and StabiliGrid Reference Projects: National School of Academic Equitation and others

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#666666" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03e005a2dkdycc.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="821" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 95 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="791945a0.jpg" border=0 width="148" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="634"><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HoofGrid, HomeGrid and StabiliGrid Refer"><B>Home</B></A><B> </B> | HoofGrid, HomeGrid and StabiliGrid Demo Area   |   <A HREF="id275.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HoofGrid Agricultural and Equine Footing">About HoofGrid</A>   |   <A HREF="information_about_stabiligri.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Information about StabiliGrid How it Wo">StabiliGrid INFO</A> | <A 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CD Goats Thumbnails</A>   |   <A HREF="susan_cheney_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cheney Thumbnails">Cheney Thumbnails</A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#666666" TEXT="#080000" background="03f09093.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Photos of turf reinforcement at </B></I><A HREF="id263.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baby Pram No Problem, public flea market"><I><B>Farmers  Markets . . . </B></I></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id263.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baby Pram No Problem, public flea market"><I><B><IMG SRC="6e5af830.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="131" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id268.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reinforced turf at a public childrens pl"><I><B>playgrounds . . .</B></I></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id268.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reinforced turf at a public childrens pl"><I><B><IMG SRC="6e785640.jpg" border=0 width="133" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reinforcing a shortcut path through an i"><I><B>and Public Commons . . . </B></I></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id266.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reinforcing a shortcut path through an i"><I><B><IMG SRC="6e985640.jpg" border=0 width="133" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A></div> <div> <A HREF="dog_exercise_kennel_grid_soil_stabilizer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dog exercise kennel grid system"><IMG SRC="6e3af810.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="129" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> <A HREF="public_commons_and_playgroun.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Commons and Playgrounds"><B>Public Commons and Playgrounds</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="dog_exercise_kennel_grid_soil_stabilizer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dog exercise kennel grid system"><B>Dog exercise kennel grid system</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NSAE Photos"><B>NSAE Photos</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="thumbnail_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hidden Valley Farms"><B>Hidden Valley Farms</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Thumbnails"><B>Pierce CD Thumbnails</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_goats_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Goats Thumbnails"><B>Pierce CD Goats Thumbnails</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="susan_cheney_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cheney Thumbnails"><B>Cheney Thumbnails</B></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Click a link above or at the right,  to see the photos.</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ecoterr.com/contact.html" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.ecoterr.com/contact.html">Contact</A>  ||  <A HREF="http://www.stabiligrid.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.stabiligrid.com">StabiliGrid</A> ||  <A HREF="http://www.eco-friendlyhome.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eco-friendlyhome.com">HomeGrid</A>  ||  <A HREF="http://www.hoofgrid.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hoofgrid.com">HoofGrid</A>  ||  2007 ©<A HREF="http://www.ecoterr.com" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.ecoterr.com"> Eco-Terr Distributing Inc.</A>  All rights reserved.</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="655" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 23 ><NOBR><div> Demonstration installations from some of our customers</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 246 WIDTH="316"><div> Joan in the Seattle, Washington area has some beautifurl Golden Retrievers.  They love to dig up large rocks - as large as they can fit into their mouths - and swallow them whole.  <I><B>Good Dog!</B></I></div> <div> The emergency surgeries to remove landscape boulders from their digestive tracts became a little too much to bear.</div> <div> So Joan contacted ECO-TERR, to ask if we could solve the problems.  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>We could,</I></div> <div> <I>she did, </I></div> <div> <I>and the dogs no longer can.</I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="dog_exercise_kennel_grid_soil_stabilizer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dog exercise kennel grid system"><IMG SRC="6d840f00.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 219 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NSAE Photos"><IMG SRC="6d940d50.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="328"><div> NSAE: A stall using HoofGrid as a compromise solution between the question:</div> <div> "Do I use horse mats and deal with the extra bedding and filth.  And labor, and waste removal.</div> <div> Or do I revert to the old tried-and-true natural sandy-clay loam stall flooring - and deal with constantly needing to repair the unlevel floor that results from horses pawing and pacing.</div> <div> Natural drainage - yet with a permanently level and hoof-friendly soil.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 267 WIDTH="316"><div> Can you tell where the HoofGrid ends, and the six inches of mucky clay mud begins?</div> <div> When we say, <I><B>"No more mud. Ever!" </B></I>that is what we mean.</div> <div> This project took a few minutes to apply the grids.  And only an hour or so to prepare the ground and finish it up with backfilling.</div> <div> The owner installed HoofGrid HD.</div> <div> Loadbearing capacity = </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>35 TONS per square foot.</B></I></div> <div> The horse now has at least one spot of ground, where it can get out of the mud.</div> <div> <I><B>    If horse have dreams,</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>what horses dream of . . .</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="thumbnail_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hidden Valley Farms"><IMG SRC="6daa0f20.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="242" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="6dba0f20.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="242" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="thumbnail_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hidden Valley Farms"><I><B>Before                         After</B></I></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 257 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Thumbnails"><IMG SRC="6dc40d50.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Thumbnails"><I><B>Before and Installation Photos.</B></I></A></div> <div> <I>See the "finished pens" below.</I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="328"><div> The problem:  an old dairy nestled against a salmon breeding hatchery.  The "nutrients" from the livestock leached into the waterway, destroying the spawning grounds.</div> <div> This dairy was purchased by Washington State grants, and spearheaded by the local USDA/NRCS conservationists Rene and Erin - both horse owners themselves.</div> <div> During the grand opening and demonstration, of course the CD agents could not suggest one product over another.  But, they do have HoofGrid in their personal farms, for their own horses.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 238 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_goats_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Goats Thumbnails"><IMG SRC="6dd40cd0.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="205" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_goats_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Goats Thumbnails">The ground outside the pens.</A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_goats_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Goats Thumbnails"><IMG SRC="6de40ce0.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pierce_cd_goats_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pierce CD Goats Thumbnails">Happy Goats inside their mud-free pens.</A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 114 WIDTH="316"><div> <I><B>Have you seen this problem before? >>>></B></I></div> <div> Before HoofGrid, this wonderful facility had six to ten inches of mud, along every fencerow walked by the pastured horses.</div> <div> Half the year, the horses were standing in mud to their pasterns.  <A HREF="susan_cheney_thumbnails.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cheney Thumbnails"><I><B>Photo Gallery >></B></I></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="6df40c00.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="448" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="6e240800.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="128" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 470 ><NOBR><div> <I><B>Before HoofGrid . . . </B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="6e140d50.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>After HoofGrid . . . </B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="6e040d50.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ecoterr.com/contact.html" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.ecoterr.com/contact.html">Contact</A>  ||  <A HREF="http://www.stabiligrid.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.stabiligrid.com">StabiliGrid</A> ||  <A HREF="http://www.eco-friendlyhome.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eco-friendlyhome.com">HomeGrid</A>  ||  <A HREF="http://www.hoofgrid.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hoofgrid.com">HoofGrid</A></div> <div> 2007 ©<A HREF="http://www.ecoterr.com" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.ecoterr.com"> Eco-Terr Distributing Inc.</A>  All rights reserved.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>