You can buy riding arena levellers directly from the manufacturer here. Our professional riding arena levellers are high-quality, robust and compact machines with a working width starting at 2.25 m. These professional riding arena levellers are the ideal solution for any riding surface, helping to prevent injuries to horses during training.
A riding arena planner must always be adapted to the surface of the riding arena, the conditions inside the indoor riding arena or on the outdoor riding arena, and the size of the riding area. Maintaining the surface with a riding arena leveller is important for safeguarding the horses’ health and ensuring the longevity of the riding surface.
What is a riding arena planner?
A riding arena leveller is a machine used for mixing, loosening and levelling the riding surface. Riding arena levellers are towed across the ground by a quad bike or small tractor. They are used for ground maintenance on dressage arenas, indoor riding arenas, lunging arenas and in other riding or lunging facilities.
The riding surface is loosened and mixed using the tines integrated into the riding arena leveller, and then levelled and compacted using the levelling blade or roller. Riding surface maintenance machines are also available as self-propelled machines for levelling riding arenas. Many suppliers of riding arena levellers also sell an adapter so that the levellers can be towed by smaller vehicles.
Why is a riding arena planner important?
A riding arena leveller is essential for the proper maintenance and regular preparation of the riding surface. A riding arena leveller ensures better ground conditions and greater safety for the horse. Unevenness and clumps in the ground pose a risk of injury, which can be avoided by using a riding arena leveller.
Riding arena levellers are used to ensure effective maintenance of riding arenas, thereby preserving the longevity of the riding surface. Using an indoor riding arena leveller maintains the ideal structure of the riding surface, which improves the horse’s footing during training. In addition to watering and mucking out, a riding arena leveller is essential for ground maintenance.
What are the benefits of a riding arena planner?
The main advantages of a riding arena leveller are the time it saves, the resulting long-lasting quality of the riding arena, and the leveller’s durability. A riding arena leveller enhances safety for both horse and rider, provides a better riding experience and is easy to operate.
All the benefits of a riding arena planner are set out in detail in the list below.
- Time saving: A riding arena leveller saves time by ensuring that the riding arena is prepared quickly, loosening and levelling the surface in a single pass. Thanks to the riding arena leveller, the effort required to maintain the riding arena is significantly reduced and the arena is ready for use again more quickly.
- Long-lasting riding arena quality: Riding arena levellers ensure that riding arenas remain in good condition for a long time, as the surface stays level, loose and resilient. Using a riding arena leveller makes it possible to keep the arena in optimum condition and of a high standard for a long time.
- Durable: Indoor riding arena levellers are built to last, as they are made from high-quality materials and feature a robust design. Even with frequent use, this sturdy piece of equipment can be relied upon to perform reliably. An indoor riding arena leveller is an investment for the farm that pays off in the long term.
- Gentle on the floor: Riding arena levellers are gentle on the ground because they loosen and smooth the riding surface without damaging the base layer. A riding surface maintenance machine loosens the surface evenly, which maintains the elasticity and air permeability of the riding surface and reduces dust formation.
- Improves safety: A track leveller improves safety for both horse and rider, as a level surface minimises the risk of slipping and tripping. Using a track leveller reduces the risk of injury whilst riding and helps the horse to keep its footing more securely.
- A better riding experience: Once the ground has been worked by the riding arena leveller, it provides a more comfortable riding experience, as a perfectly maintained surface offers greater comfort and better shock absorption whilst riding. Horses move more smoothly on a levelled riding surface, and riders benefit from a smoother ride.
- Easy handling: Indoor riding arena levellers are easy to use, as they simply need to be attached to a tractor, quad bike or other towing vehicle. Individual settings for the specific surface and conditions can be easily adjusted on the indoor riding arena leveller.
- High manoeuvrability: Thanks to its compact design, a riding arena leveller is highly manoeuvrable and allows the riding arena to be levelled even between obstacles. Thanks to the leveller’s excellent manoeuvrability, corners, edge areas and smaller riding arenas can also be levelled efficiently.
- Powerful: Track levellers are highly effective, as they can work even heavily used, hard or compacted soils effectively. The tines, rollers or levelling blades on the track leveller ensure powerful, efficient soil cultivation, particularly over large areas.
On what types of ground can a riding arena leveller be used?
A riding arena leveller can be used on surfaces such as sandy surfaces, mixed surfaces and sandy surfaces with aggregates. Riding arena levellers are suitable, for example, for geotextile surfaces, sand-fleece surfaces, ebb-and-flow surfaces, granulate surfaces, screened material surfaces, fleece-chippings surfaces, sawdust surfaces and wood shavings surfaces.
It is important to choose the riding arena leveller that is suitable for your specific type of surface, as different equestrian disciplines require different types of surface. Only purchase the leveller that is suitable for the surface of your indoor riding arena or outdoor riding arena. Using the wrong riding arena leveller, which is not suitable for the existing riding surface, will lead to undesirable results and, in the long term, damage the riding surface.
What types of vehicles can be towed by the riding arena planner?
Vehicles such as small tractors, quads or ATVs, farm loaders, ride-on mowers, compact tractors and wheel loaders can tow riding arena levellers. Riding arena levellers can be attached to all agricultural tractors and small towing vehicles fitted with a trailer coupling.
The vehicle’s power and towing capacity must always be adapted to the size and weight of the riding arena leveller to ensure it can be towed effortlessly across the riding arena. As well as vehicle-driven riding arena levellers, there are also self-propelled levellers that are motorised.
How big are riding arena planners?
Riding arena levellers have a working width of between 150 cm and 250 cm and are between 120 cm and 180 cm deep. Our riding arena levellers have working widths of 225 cm and 250 cm. The working width you choose for your indoor riding arena leveller depends on the area of the riding surface that needs to be loosened and levelled.
If you often have to negotiate tight bends on the riding arena – such as between obstacles on a show jumping course – a narrow arena leveller is the better choice. If you mainly use the leveller to work straight sections of the riding surface, a wide riding arena leveller is recommended, as it works the ground more efficiently and quickly. The size of the riding arena leveller should be chosen according to the space available for storage.
What types of riding arena levellers are there?
There are riding arena levellers fitted with different types of rollers, such as grid rollers, crumbler rollers or rubber rollers, as well as manual riding arena levellers with a tow bar, water tank, laser or hoof mark remover. The various types of riding arena levellers allow for customisation to suit the specific conditions of the riding arena.
We set out the five types of riding arena planners in detail in the list below.
- Riding arena planner with different rollers: Riding arena levellers are available with different types of rollers, such as grid rollers, crumbler rollers and rubber rollers. Grid rollers on riding arena levellers are made from steel grids, crumbler rollers from closely spaced steel bars and rubber rollers from solid rubber. The type of roller is crucial for a riding arena leveller, as it influences the soil structure, appearance and compaction of the riding surface.
- Manual riding arena leveller with trailer coupling: Manual riding arena levellers with a tow bar are suitable, for example, for quad bikes, tractors and farm loaders. Indoor riding arena levellers with a tow bar can be used on all types of riding surfaces, with or without aggregates. The riding arena leveller with a tow bar is fitted with harrow tines, a mesh roller and a screw conveyor.
- Riding arena planner with water tank: The riding arena leveller with water tank is an irrigation system for farms that combines riding arena levelling and irrigation. The riding arena leveller with water tank for sandy surfaces allows indoor riding arenas and outdoor riding arenas to be levelled and watered simultaneously in a single operation. A PTO-driven pump in the indoor riding arena leveller with irrigation system directs water through nozzles into the ground to minimise dust on the riding surface.
- Riding arena planner with laser: The laser-guided riding arena leveller is fitted with a levelling blade that is automatically adjusted to the correct height using a laser system. The automatic height adjustment on the riding arena leveller allows the levelling blade to be precisely adjusted to the surface of the riding arena, so that it can automatically compensate for unevenness and changes in the riding surface.
- Riding arena planner with hoof scraper: An arena leveller with an integrated track rake ensures that accumulated surface material in the centre or along the walls of the indoor riding arena is returned to the track. An integrated track leveller on the riding arena leveller saves riders the trouble of having to level the track by hand after every riding lesson.
Riding arena planner from Alfako
We offer four different models of Alfako riding arena levellers in our online shop, each with different specifications, to help maintain a well-kept riding surface. We stock the Premium riding arena leveller, the Prestige riding arena leveller, the Sand riding arena leveller and the Shredded Fibre riding arena leveller.
Below, we present our four Alfako riding arena planners in detail.
- Riding arena planner Premium: The „Premium“ riding arena leveller is suitable for surfaces made of sand or shredded fleece. The leveller features two rows of tines for loosening the surface, a crumbler roller for aeration and a mesh roller for smoothing the riding surface. The „Premium“ indoor riding arena leveller has a working width of 225 cm and a depth of 130 cm.
- Riding arena planner Prestige: The „Prestige“ riding arena leveller has been designed for riding surfaces made from shredded fleece. On the „Prestige“ riding arena leveller, the springs loosen the surface, the crumbler roller aerates the ground and the rubber roller levels and compacts the riding surface. The working width of the „Prestige“ riding arena leveller is 250 cm and the depth is 130 cm.
- Riding arena planner sand: The „Sand“ riding arena leveller is designed for surfaces made of sand, clay, sawdust or wood shavings. The „Sand“ indoor riding arena leveller smooths and compacts the surface using a levelling blade and tines. The working width of the „Sand“ arena leveller is 250 cm and the riding surface maintenance machine has a working depth of 120 cm.
- Riding arena planner fleece chaff: The „Vlieshäcksel“ riding arena leveller is ideal for surfaces made of shredded fleece. With the „Vlieshäcksel“ riding arena leveller, the riding surface is loosened using the springs, aerated by the trailing roller and finally levelled and compacted by the levelling blade. The „Vlieshäcksel“ indoor riding arena leveller is 250 cm wide and 120 cm deep.
Before making a purchase, find out what type of riding surface you have in your stables and which riding arena planner is best suited to it. If you have any questions about one of our riding surface maintenance machines or other products, simply fill in our contact form on our website with your enquiry and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Alternatively, call us on 01522 287 33 46 or send us an email at info@alfako.de. We’ll be happy to help!
