Unusual Uses
Unusual Applications of Fieldguard Products
Over the past thirty-five years, Fieldguard products have been employed in a variety of slightly unusual uses, which are listed below:
Fencing
- Keeping badgers out of the garden
- Keeping coy carp safe from herons
- Holding back rabbits from root crops
- Keeping pigeons off window ledges in London
- Snail containment at an edible snail farm
- Snake proof fencing
- Horse self exercise corridors
- Deterring predators in an animal reserve for small game in South Africa
- Deterring humans from a wild herd of Przewalski horses
- Perimeter fence for an Oryx reserve in Oman
- Bird scarer
- Ostrich farm fencing in South Africa
- Elephant containment at an open zoo.
Rubber Mats
- Sickbed for an injured rhino
- Light aircraft parking
- To help initial track purchase for military tanks stuck in deep, sticky mud in Borneo
- Flooring in hot air balloon gondolas
- Greyhound racing stadium kennels bedding
M516 16mm Honeycomb Hollow Ring Mat
- Suspension medium under a wooden dance floor
- Keeping mud off vintage cars displayed on the grass
- Non-slip surface on golf course wooden bridges
- Used in refrigerated delivery vehicles to prevent condensation on the floor from damaging parcels.
M522/M52L/M52LO 23mm Honeycomb Hollow Ring Mats
- Erosion protection around a pond
- A helicopter landing pad
- Flooring in fish buying sheds
- BMX track surface
- An outdoor track for a film camera dolly
- Walkways on fishing boat decks
- To aid lightning protection on a high roof
- Covering the slatted flooring of indoor lamb pens
- Icy pavements and walkways in the Alps, Scandinavia, Poland & Russia
- Sheep shearing pads.
- Sound deadening around air conditioning trunking.
- Securing plastic membranes on silage pits
- Protecting mature trees from deer depredation
- Anti-static floor for a large mainframe computer room
- Non-slip flooring for dog training barns
- Hawk training corridor
- Greyhound racing stadium kennels bedding
- Base for beehives
- To cut the excessive noise in an indoor swimming pool – stuck to walls back to front
- Non-slip flooring in police dog vans
- Lorry maintenance machine shop floor
- Police riot training area
- Soft floor for large metal castings handling area
- Insulated flooring in an astronomy dome
- To aid in the construction of a temporary dressage area inside the Royal Albert Hall
- A temporary ramp at the Royal Albert Hall to provide access for a horse. This was the first time a horse had EVER been inside the Albert Hall!
M116 16mm Interlocking Mat
- Soft, warm surface in a pet grooming parlour
- Dog training barn
- Garden games boards
- Lawn mazes as a garden feature that can be mown
- Soft desk top surfaces in offices
- Van floors
- Protecting tree trunks from vandals in a playground
