Shannon and Eric were brothers — Logan's father and Josh's father. They started this. Between the two of them there were more children than the two of us; we are simply the two who wanted to carry it on, one from each brother. That is the whole company.
We work in locust because these mountains have always worked in locust. It is the hardest wood in North America, it is well known around here as the wood you use when a thing has to last, and it is getting harder to find every year. Drawknifed — bark off, and the soft outer layers off with it — it will sit outdoors for around a decade and indoors for twenty years and more.
Because there are two of us, we take fewer jobs than a larger outfit would. It also means the person who walks your property is the person who drawknifes the wood and sets the posts, and the person who picks up the phone afterward. There is nobody in between.
We are building this to hand down. That is not a slogan — it is the reason we would rather do one fence properly than four of them fast.
If that is the kind of shop you want to hire, come and walk the property with us. It costs nothing.
Locust is the hardest wood in North America and getting harder to find. Outdoors it runs about ten years — far past what pressure-treated pine manages. Indoors it goes twenty and up, and with upkeep a great deal longer than that.
We take the bark off and the outer layers with it — the soft layer on black locust, the less-sturdy layer on yellow. It is slow work and it is the whole reason the wood lasts. A barked fence needs sections replaced every two to five years. A drawknifed one does not.
Our fathers started this. There are two of us now, one from each brother, and we are the two who wanted to carry it on. You deal with an owner from the first walk of the property to the last rail set.
Anyone who works on a house gets a bad reputation for a handful of very fixable reasons. Here is where we stand on each of them.
If we are running late you get a call, not silence. Scheduling is the single most common complaint about anyone who works on a house, and it is the easiest one to fix.
The number on your written quote is the number on your invoice. If the job turns up something genuinely unforeseeable, you approve the change in writing before we touch it.
Bark on looks the way it looks and wears the way it wears. Yellow locust is beautiful and it will not stand as long as black. You will hear all of that before you decide, not after.
We live here. If something we built needs attention, we are a short drive away — and if you are on the maintenance plan we are already coming.
Come and see what locust does. We'll measure, talk through black or yellow and whether you want the bark on, and put a written price in your hands.