[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I've never heard of that? But putting something under it like a fabric would work.

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Yeah you have, you just forgot about it. I put it down last year when I was doing all that gravel work around the side of the barn. It's great stuff. Once you scrape down to a good solid base, you put it down then put 5 or 6 inches of gravel on top of it. It'll hold up a tractor with a 1200# roll of hay on the front end.

This is what it looked like after the base was prepared but before it was finished...

It looks like really thick black felt and it comes on 15 foot wide rolls that are 300 feet long. The co-op where I buy it will sell it by the linear foot. This particular piece was 15X30. They cut it for me, folded it up and I hauled it home in the back of the Jeep. It cost $1.75 a foot so it ended up costing about $55. This fall I did the same thing in front of this barn as well as in front of the barn at my FIL's where the mares are. The mud had gotten so deep there that I couldn't even get in with a tractor. The fabric had gone up to $2.75 a foot, but it's still worth it. Getting in there is a breeze now.