Horses are indeed violent animals and like to kick walls, so I was thinking of casting about 1200 high, i.e. the width of a plywood sheet. The rest of the wall will be a wooden structure, a typical stud wall. The slab is 10 x 15 m and there should be a 3m wide opening on each short side. The slab is about 3 years old and I plan to drill down anchors of rebar. On the anchors, I plan to attach 2 pieces of 12 mm rebar and bend them at the corners. So how much reinforcement do I need? How strong do the studs need to be to support the plywood? I intend to hold the form together with threaded rod, M8, how closely should I place them? How close must the supports be on the outside and inside of the wall? How thick should the wall be? Is 150 mm sufficient or is it too thin? Other tips and tricks are welcomed with great gratitude.
A quiet question before you build the concrete wall/base, isn't it bad for the horses if they start kicking a wall that causes damage to their hooves? If the wall is strong enough, the horses will "take a beating" until they learn, or lose the habit of kicking that is. However, I should add that I have little overall knowledge about horses.
When I built stables, we laid the first courses in the walls with H-blocks. (I think that's what they're called.) Hollow cement blocks that I reinforced and filled with cement. Then we continued with lecablocks on top of that. It turned out well. The walls weren't kicked through, at least. One of the horses was a kicker, and the walls held up. If you want, you can always hang rubber mats.
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