New Barn - 2 Way Diamond Grooving
As the inherent traction qualities of new concrete are lost through normal foot traffic and mechanical scraping and cleaning, these floors become too slippery for animals, people and the safe operation of rubber tired tractors, skid steers etc. Concrete floors are grooved with powerful machinery equipped with diamond cutting wheels designed to cut square sharp grooves 1/2"x1/4" - 1/2" deep and every 4" on centre. Grooves are usually cut length ways of the area to be corrected and then crossway on an angle to allow for steel buckets/blades to scrape floors with out catching in the grooves. Water is channelled off down in the grooves in all directions to drain floors fast keeping foot traffic high and dry. Rubber tired machinery , cattle hooves and people have a positive gripping surface for safe operation.
Fred Black
- 1. The Correct Way to Install non slip concrete flooring in Dairy Barns
- A technical research paper by Fred Black.
- 2. Before you Pour concrete for that New Barn
- Written by Fred Black published in the U.S. dairy magazine "Hoard's Dairyman".
- 3. A Formula for the Installation of Lifetime nonskid Concrete Alleyways in Flush Barns.
- An article pertaining to Flush Barns written by Fred Black for an Agpro conference we were invited to speak at in January 97'. Agpro is an engineering company out of Texas that advises farmers all over the world on building new barns.
- 4. Occupying a new Free Stall Barn - Recipe for Success
- Written by Fred Black for the Agpro conference.
- 5. Grooving 15 years old Concrete - Improved Footing
- A reprint from Hoard's Dairyman Magazine.
- 6. Rough concrete was Making Cows Lame
- A reprrint from Hoard's Dairyman Magazine.
- 7. Flush Barns
- Diamond pattern grooving and flushed barns
- 8. Vern's Home Brewed Recipe for Concrete Sealant
- Vern's home brewed recipe for coating new concrete so that cows who arrive on a new floor do not get "limestone burn from the high ph(alkaline) concrete".
- 9. Ideal Flooring for Sand Bedded Barns
- Reccomendations for Sand Bedded Barns
