10/29/2026
Most of our projects are relatively linear. They start at one point, end at another, and we can feel them begin to fold in on themselves as the work tightens up toward completion. This was not that project. It was fragmented and a bit disjointed. It doesn't photograph cleanly, doesn't have a clear focal point to share with you, but made a tremendous overall improvement to the property in its own way.
This project started with "we need to drill a water well here but the drillers can't get their trucks through" and ended with a lot of "while you're here...." And let's be honest, after 17 years of this I've learned the best compliment I can get is a conversation that includes the phrase "while you're here" because it means you like what you're seeing enough to trust us with more.
Somewhere in the middle ground of this project, we dug a slurry pit for the drillers so they don't have to drag in their backhoe, built two 24 ft gate entrances (with a new driveway for one of them), tore out ¾ mile of old fence, cleaned up the main watering point, installed a new 13ft tire tank, and removed a no longer relevant cattle guard plus reworked the grade at that gate.
As I mentioned, it's not linear, doesn't fold in to a single point of completion, and certainly is harder to explain. But it made a world of difference for this property.
I want to thank S & S Fence for building these 24 ft gates for the project. I know everybody likes chasing double gates in our Kansas wind but I think these single 24's turned out pretty decent. We've installed several S&S gates over the last year or so and, in my opinion, you won't find any that swing smoother or show out nicer.
Give us a call at 785-770-0479 if you have a variety of random improvements you'd like completed on your property. If you'd like gates like this, we'd be happy to install them for you.