Fence Installation in Lowgap, NC

Lowgap sits where Surry County runs out of Piedmont and starts climbing, close enough to the Virginia line and the Blue Ridge escarpment that the weather and the ground both behave differently than they do down around Dobson. Fencing here is almost entirely rural: pasture division, boundary line, livestock containment and gates on farm entrances off NC 89.

The terrain is the first thing we look at. Slopes are real slopes, the rock content in the soil climbs as the elevation does, and a straight line on paper becomes a run that crosses two grade breaks and a rock shelf in practice. That is why the estimate happens on foot. An estimator who has walked the actual line can tell you where posts need to be pulled in tighter, where a brace assembly has to go, and where the fence should be shifted a few feet to avoid fighting ledge rock all afternoon.

Weather up here is harder on a fence than it is thirty miles east. Elevation brings more wind and considerably more ice, and ice is the one that does the damage. It loads rails, it loads anything growing across the fence, and it finds every post that was set carelessly. We set posts in concrete below the frost line and we would rather clear a fence line back from a limb-heavy canopy at the start than come back and repair a crushed section after the first bad February.

Most of what goes in around Round Peak and the surrounding hollows is woven field wire for cattle, mesh-backed rail wherever horses are kept because it will not cut an animal that leans on it, and board or split rail near the house and the entrance. Gates get sized for the tractor, not the truck.

Call (336) 646-7288 any hour, including weekends, and we will set a time to come out and walk the property. Estimates are free and done on site.