Fence Company in Marietta, SC

Anderson Fence Company is a fence company in Marietta, SC, out in the 29661 zip on the US 276 corridor where northern Greenville County stops being suburban and starts being country. Marietta was plotted by J. Harvey Cleveland, born in 1815, who bought land up here and named the settlement after his wife, Mary Louisa Williams.

Marietta is an unincorporated community, counted by the census as part of the Slater-Marietta area, and it has no town government setting fence rules. What governs a fence here is Greenville County and the shape of your land. Parcels run large, the ground rolls and drops toward the North Saluda, and a good share of what we build is measured in hundreds of feet rather than dozens.

Fencing acreage instead of a yard

On a quarter acre lot the fence is a rectangle around the back yard. On five or twenty acres it is a working boundary, and the questions change. What is it holding in or keeping out. Which sections carry real pressure from stock and which only mark a line. Where equipment has to get through and how wide that opening needs to be. We would rather spend an hour walking a property with you answering those than quote a number off a plat.

Woven wire field fence is the workhorse on this ground. What makes it last is not the wire, it is the corners. A corner or end assembly that is braced properly takes the tension of a long run and holds it through years of frost, saturated clay and animals leaning on it. A corner post dropped in a hole without bracing pulls in within two seasons, and then every foot of wire between it and the next corner goes slack.

Board fence and coated rail read better along a drive or across a road frontage, and horse fence has its own rules. Spacing has to be either tight enough that a hoof cannot go through or wide enough that a leg passes clean, never in between. No climb mesh is what we recommend where horses and a wire fence have to coexist.

Rock is the other Marietta variable. Up toward the escarpment an auger finds rock that it will not go through, and the honest options are moving the post, hand working the hole with a bar, or using a rock anchored setting. We say which one we hit and what it does to the price rather than quietly shortening the post.

The gate at the end of a long drive

Driveways up here run a long way from the road to the house, and the gate at the road is the piece that gets used, judged and abused. A wide leaf is a lever. Every inch of width multiplies the load trying to pull the hinge post out of the ground, and on a drive that slopes to the road gravity is working on that leaf all day long.

So the hinge post gets sized and set for the gate it is carrying before anything else is decided. Where a drive is too narrow or too sloped for a swing gate to clear, a cantilever slide is the answer instead. If you want an opener now or later, the gate has to be built for the motor from the start, because adding an operator to a gate that was never framed for it is how gates end up sagging and binding within a year.

Power and communication also get planned at the quote rather than discovered at install. That means how the opener gets power, where the keypad sits so a delivery driver can reach it from a truck window, and whether a safety loop or photo eye is needed for the way your drive is used.