Willard Fence Installation

Willard is farming country at the northern edge of Pender County, strung along US 117 within sight of the Duplin line. Blueberries and row crops set the rhythm of the year here, and a good share of the fence work follows from that. Equipment yards, packing areas, kennels, pasture, crop boundary, and a house lot somewhere in the middle of it that the family actually lives in.

The working side of the property wants function and nothing else. Chain link in a heavier gauge is hard to beat around buildings and equipment, because it secures without blocking sight lines and does not care what the weather does. Farm fence carries the field and pasture lines, woven or field wire on treated posts, spaced and sized to whatever is being contained. Gates are where the real thinking goes. A gate too narrow for the widest piece of equipment on the place is a problem you live with for years, so we build them wide and we put them where things actually travel.

Around the house the requirements change entirely. This is the part of the property where privacy, a dog, or small children set the spec, and it is worth building properly since it is the fence the family looks at every day. Wood suits the setting and treated pine handles the humidity here well enough as long as somebody seals it now and then. Where nobody wants that job, vinyl with PrivacyLock panels gives a solid line that keeps its color, and StayStrong pickets hold long runs straight across an open lot.

Being this far inland changes the weather less than people expect. Tropical systems still come through northern Pender with serious wind, the soil is sandy and loose and does very little to hold a post against it, and there is nothing on an open farm lot to slow anything down. That is why the post work here looks the same as it does on the coast. Concrete on every post, footings sized to the height and exposure of the fence rather than to habit, and a preference for a design that lets air through wherever privacy does not demand a solid wall.

Call (910) 765-0965 at any hour, any day, and we will come out to the property, measure it, and hand you a written estimate at no charge.