I have been pricing grids or geotextile 'fabric' to place over our 1-2 feet of hard-tamped gravel in four smallish pens we are about to fence. The grid or fabric is to control hooves chopping the gravel up and eventually driving it into the underlying clay. This will happen, even with this amount of gravel, as our driveway has demonstrated through the years.

Holy smokes the grids are expensive! One lays and pins the grid, covers it with more sharp gravel (and the gravel isn't cheap), but $5000 alone for the grid for 30 by 65 feet! That was the quote from two different brands and over $9,000 from another!

If any of you have found a less expensive grid please let me know, include brand names if you would, and what province or state the material came from. If any of you have used geotextile fabric for this purpose, let me know how it worked.

Our autumns are wet before the ground freezes, and we can get ugly clay mud in heavily used areas. Surely there must be products used for roads, cattle, or ... that are half those astronomical prices. I cannot believe the road builders or the dairy industry, just for instance, pay that kind of money to mud-proof large areas. thanks in advance for any suggestions. Ann