Semi-permanent barn flooring?

[yossarian19]

The little lady and I are moving in to a new place with a ~45x45 horse barn on it. The center 15x45 strip is a slab with (3) 15x15 stalls on either side of it, one of those stalls (the tack room) is poured concrete as well. The rest are dirt.

I'm a bit hesitant to pour concrete in the remaining 5 stalls as I don't want to ruin it for future horse use (next owner, not me)

My thinking is to scrape the gravel / dirt floors down a little lower, put down pressure treated 2x4's at 16" on center, nail that all together and then screw down 3/4" plywood. This way it should be a usable shop floor that can be fairly easily torn out later if somebody wants.

Any thoughts? Any reason this is a bad idea, or is there a better way to approach the issue?

 

[B.C.Biker]

Last year or so my shop floor has been "soilcrete". Built up a few lifts of native gravelly soil with a bit of crush. Last 3" I rototilled in some bags of cement. Raked it reasonably smooth and ran over it with a 1000 pounder a few times.
Works real good. It's easily reversible and super cheap. With a partial concrete floor like yours already I'd be happy with that. So far the soilcrete has held up well to the backhoe,semi and farm tractors. Nothing leaves a tire track.
My floor will get poured over soon but it's served me well for a hundred bucks or so. Building as cash and time permits. So never ending project it seems! LoL

 

[James-W]

Last year or so my shop floor has been "soilcrete". Built up a few lifts of native gravelly soil with a bit of crush. Last 3" I rototilled in some bags of cement. Raked it reasonably smooth and ran over it with a 1000 pounder a few times.

Works real good. It's easily reversible and super cheap. With a partial concrete floor like yours already I'd be happy with that. So far the soilcrete has held up well to the backhoe,semi and farm tractors. Nothing leaves a tire track.
My floor will get poured over soon but it's served me well for a hundred bucks or so. Building as cash and time permits. So never ending project it seems! LoL

Personally, I wouldn't be overly concerned with what a future owner of the property wants for a floor in the barn. I would do whatever I wanted to do with it. If a future owner wants something different, he/she can do whatever they want with it.