Farm and Residential Fence in State Road, NC

State Road is a crossroads community strung along US 21 in the western end of Surry County, and the fence work here reflects that. Very little of it is subdivision fencing. Most of it is boundary line, pasture division, and gates that have to work for equipment rather than for a garbage can.

The ground is the complication. This is foothill country climbing toward the Blue Ridge, so a boundary that reads as a straight line on a plat is in reality a series of rises, dips and rock shelves. Post spacing that works on flat ground does not automatically work here, and a wire fence pulled tight across a dip will lift off the ground unless the line is dropped into it. Those decisions get made in the field, not in an office.

Corners are where these fences live or die. Every direction change and every long straight interval needs a braced assembly footed properly in concrete, because a woven wire fence is a tensioned system and the wire will find the weakest corner and pull it over. We build the corners first and stretch to them, which is slower and is the only way it stays tight.

Red clay with rock through it is the standard here, and it gets rockier the closer you get to the Wilkes County line. Clay traps water against a post, winter freezes lift it, and anything that was tamped in dirt eventually leans. Concrete footings below frost depth are what we do on every job, on every fence type.

Call (336) 646-7288 and we will schedule a time to walk the property. Someone answers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the on-site estimate costs nothing.