Ararat, NC Fence Installation

Ararat is farm country in the northern corner of Surry County, close enough to the Virginia line that most of what gets fenced here is measured in acres rather than feet. The Ararat River runs through the community, and the properties along it come with the two things that make river-bottom fencing its own problem: soil that changes character within a hundred feet, and water that moves when it rains hard.

Most of the work is containment and boundary. Woven field wire for cattle. Mesh-backed rail wherever horses are kept. Post-and-rail or split rail to define an entrance and the ground around a house without enclosing the whole view. Gates get built for equipment, and the number people underestimate most often is the width of the field gate, because a tractor with an implement behind it needs considerably more room than a tractor by itself.

The bottomland is the part that requires attention. Ground near the river drains slowly and stays soft, and a post hole in that soil begins filling with water while you are still digging it. That is a footing problem, not a fence problem, and it gets solved with depth and a proper concrete mix rather than by pretending the ground is drier than it is. Up on the rolling pasture above the bottoms it is ordinary Surry clay with rock through it, which brings its own freeze-and-lift behavior every winter.

The distance out here is a scheduling question more than anything else, and we treat it as one. Material staged on site, the job run as a continuous block of days, and a thorough enough estimate that nobody has to make a second trip to answer a question about a gate.

Call (336) 646-7288, answered around the clock every day of the week, and we will set a time to come out and walk it. The estimate is free.