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help me out here folks...product name??

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Anonymous-0

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as at a place a week or so ago and in the feedlot/loafing area and some of the walkways there was woodchips/bark. Nasty weather and things didn't look like white tennisshoe conditions. Was wishing for my muck boots but spent about an hour looking at horses and robbing setup ideas. Got done and shoes were hardly wet and just a little dirty. Anyway, they had this stuff that they scattered on the dry ground before the chips. Looked to be something between coarse salt and rocksalt. When it rains this stuff soaks up the water and is like jello (??) then evaporates back to normal in dry weather and is supposed to keep the routine up until it is carried away (on hooves, shoes, tires, etc) and you just scatter some more....

Any idea what this stuff could be and a source for it?

Thanks, Dave
 

If you mean "Silica", I have seen it at green-houses and plant stores..but not in large volume containers..
It soaks up water, gets like Jello and dries down to Sand-like pellets..

Ron..
 
Polyacrylamide. A good cross-linked polyacrylamide (CLP) will absorb up to 600 times its weight in water.

Used in gardening, irrigation ditches, flower pots and growing, and in diapers to absorb urine.

Sunlight breaks it down. Otherwise it can dry out and cycle time and time again under mulch, etc.

A 1 pound box of the good stuff will absorb an entire barrel of water giving you something that looks like bits of gelatin.

Not cheap by any means in the states.

Second source. http://www.watersorb.com/index.htm

One sometimes see neck coolers filled with CLP when wet and refrigerated or frozen. Directions are easy to find on the net for making the coolers.

Much higher in price at flower shops, etc. than in bulk purchases.
Hydrosource CLP
 
(quoted from post at 12:56:20 08/24/11) Polyacrylamide. A good cross-linked polyacrylamide (CLP) will absorb up to 600 times its weight in water.

Used in gardening, irrigation ditches, flower pots and growing, and in diapers to absorb urine.

Sunlight breaks it down. Otherwise it can dry out and cycle time and time again under mulch, etc.

A 1 pound box of the good stuff will absorb an entire barrel of water giving you something that looks like bits of gelatin.

Not cheap by any means in the states.

Second source. http://www.watersorb.com/index.htm

One sometimes see neck coolers filled with CLP when wet and refrigerated or frozen. Directions are easy to find on the net for making the coolers.

Much higher in price at flower shops, etc. than in bulk purchases.
Hydrosource CLP
Click to expand...

That's the stuff.

Thanks!

Dave
 
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