Great product looks and works great. Takes about 12 hours to do 6 panels and 12 tons of #8 lome stone worked well. The customer and technical support were outstanding also!!
Great review! Thanks for the specific details of what worked well. This is super helpful!
I have been dealing with extreme mud for years. I added my carport for additional stalls and soon realized during rainy season it was a mud pit. I was surfing the web for a mud control solution and came across your system. Did a lot of research and watched YouTube reviews and finally I purchased my first Lightfoot cell panel. I followed your system for installation and I was very skeptical,but the first heavy rain came and the next day I had solid DRY ground for the first time ever. And since then many more heavy rains have passed and it is holding up very well. Now I am going to install three more in different areas.I am very confident that soon all my trouble muddy areas will be dry. I highly recommend this system.
Sandra Wall
We installed Lighthoof for a mare who has PPID and needs to spend time off the grass. At our last farm we had a dry lot for her but it was often a mucky muddy mess! When we bought a small property and turned it into a horse farmette we were determined to eliminate the mud. The area by the barn where the dry lot needed to go was a soupy clay spot that needed something special to keep it habitable for HRH! We laid out all the grids ourselves and being “older” and never having done it before, we think it turned out great. It looks good and works well and our mare stays clean and dry. Wish we had done it at the last farm instead of suffering with boot sucking mud!
I bought these Panels years ago and I knew I was going to move and I needed them at the new Barn and absolutely love how they turned out. If you're in question of whether to get them just go for it and do it. I'm happy I did and with the results. Although my horse thinks it's a Pee pad and was worried about that happening, so Kelly told me to just hose it down with water and should be good.
Great job with your install! Thanks for sharing!
We followed your instructions and everything worked great. Christie on your end definitely earns a gold star for her patience and advice. Before and after pictures attached. Thanks!
Thank you Tim! This is an awesome transformation! Nicely done!
This was installed in a loafing shed to help reduce the dust and give better footing. I am not a horse person but my wife is. She loves it and that’s all that matters. Thanks for a great product.
Thanks for sharing your experience and why you used it! I'm so glad your wife is happy with the improvement!
We installed about 1109 square feet around our run in barn and automatic waterer. The horses love it (for some reason they have decided to keep it clean and not poop on it!!)
It took some hard work to get it installed but we did it all ourselves in two long weekends (we are 57 and 61 and have a loader bucket on our tractor). We had 2+ inches of rain last night and it is absolutely perfect out there. Highly recommend this product!!
Thanks so much for your review Robin! Your paddock looks amazing! We are so glad your horses are enjoying it!
After we used Lighthoof to save our pasture shelter (documented here https://youtu.be/KFiGkayYlko) we found that while the pasture shelter floor was great we still had some pretty deep mud right in front of the shelter. Lighthoof to the rescue again! We made a built-up ramp in front of the shelter using two Lighthoof panels and it works great!
I 💕 the results of the panels I have installed. Love your product!
they are life changers. Best investment we made with our paddocks.
Mavs not mad about Lighthoof. Last winter mavvy stopped using the stalls and I couldn’t understand why. Turns out bc of the mud in front of the entrance it was slippery and he became afraid of going in and out. He tried to even catapult himself in but then he’d slip on the mats. So he just quit using them. This year that has not been a problem bc there is stable footing at the entrance 🎉
I took the before pic when the mud was at its worst. I had it at that point it was enough for me to make the investment. And I will be watching for the sale! Thanks for such a great product that does exactly what you say it will.
The system has been a God-send. Living in southwest Florida, between the usual rainy season and hurricanes to boot, it is nearly impossible to keep hooves "high n' dry". Through hours of web searching, my wife came across your website in the middle of the night. She was so impressed it warranted waking me up in the middle of the night to show me the solution to all of our hoof problems. We have a very small pasture area for 2 horses so having the ability to get them off of the areas that are wet for essentially 8 months out of the year has dramatically improved the overall health of our horses.
I had a challenging situation w/ the lay of the land here. I have a horse prone to laminitis & another who gains weight by looking at grass so a dry paddock is a must. The slope of the old paddock made it a muddy mess if we got more than 2 inches at any given time...not uncommon here. The terracing was necessary to accomplish the L-shape which was the only set-up that made sense to allow plenty of space (4500sf) for the boys while dealing with the intense slope. The white barn was under water ALL winter...I couldn't take it anymore. The contractor cut out a ramp (& used Lighthoof on it) between the two levels so the boys can go back & forth. What was left of the old dirt paddock has been seeded & is full of grass already which helps with the water run-off. We've had quite a bit of rain since the project was finished in March and I have had zero water issues. I'm amazed at how the water passes right through the paddock. It's awesome. My boys don't have to stand in mud or be stalled every time it rains (less work for ME!!) so I no longer stress out when the forecast sucks. It has 100% made my daily chores so much easier and my boys actually like being in there when they are. I'm so pleased and the horses are loving their new space!
We are so happy & got done before spring rains started. Still a work in progress but we won't be working in the mud. Thanks for a wonderful product & all the install instruction. I did most if it by myself. She likes to lay down & it made me miserable to see her in the mud. Getting this done has made me so happy!
These are the before and after pics of our installation. Just two panels. Took two ladies about 6 hours of labor. I was going to do some short cuts...like no railroad ties around the edge, and not renting the vibrating plate to compact the stone. I watched a video Lightfoot put up of what not to do. Thank heavens for that. We followed all the videos and it turned out great! No more boot-sucking mud anymore! The mud was literally almost over my mucks!
The horses are SO much happier!
THRILLED with how it turned out and can't wait to order more in the spring.
Howdy! We followed your instructions and everything worked great. Christie on your end definitely earns a gold star for her patience and advice. Before and after pictures attached. Thanks!
I live in northern Virginia on small horse farm. Mud is a problem especially from December to April. To address the problem I decided to build a dry lot for my horses and discovered Lighthoof on the Internet. So far I have installed 17 Lighthoof panels, have 11 more I will install this fall, and plan on installing 15 to 20 more after that on until the whole paddock is done in Lighthoof.
I first installed 9 panels in April 2019 and they solved the mud problem around my barn. They worked well so I installed 8 more in April 2020 and will install more in the coming weeks. As for maintenance, I have not had to do any yet.
Attached are some pictures and descriptions.
Pic 1 in the muddy area when I started building the frame but before Lighthoof (April 2019).
Pic 2 is after installing 9 panels. This is after I used a plate compactor but before adding a layer of stone dust.
Pic 3 is after installing 8 more panels. I joined them to the panels in the front of picture 2. The picture is after I used a hand tamper and before I used a plate compactor (April 2020)
Pic 4 is Sept 2020 and as you can tell everything is fine.
My vet is impressed with the Lighthoof dry lot I built because it keeps the horses from getting hoof problems like scratches and thrush.
Finished! It took questioning my life choices several thousand times and 30 tons of gravel, but we finally finished Cid’s winter turnout. I don’t have a great before picture, because the space was so embarrassing. The mud would become 4” or more deep starting the first rainfall of autumn and wouldn’t clear up until the middle of summer. I can’t tell you how many times I have lost a shoe in the mud, or stepped in the wrong spot and ended up with freezing cold muck running into my shoe. But those days are in the past, and winter chores will not be so difficult!
we are very happy with the product and ease of installation
only a few panels made a huge difference in how the barn functioned
Very easy to install and work with, will use again
Thanks for sharing your review!