Eight Great Reasons To Use A Custom Metal Fabricator For Your Horse Pipe Corrals

If you own an equestrian property, you know fencing is key to protecting your horses and managing herds. Putting in pipe corrals and pipe perimeter fencing is a great way to make your life easier. Here are eight great reasons why you should consider using a custom metal fabricator to make your corrals and fence panels.

Safety

Many horse owners like steel pipe over other fence materials. It doesn't need painting, and it won't break or get chewed, like wood. It doesn't pose any of the safety hazards of barbed wire.

While metal pipe doesn't give if a horse runs into it, it has high visibility, so this generally isn't a problem.

Sturdiness

Custom pipe corrals have an extra element of sturdiness to them, as you can minimize the number of joints and place them where they will withstand the least amount of stress. Unbroken lines of metal pipe can stand up to impact and twisting forces. Can wood or wire do that?

Flexibility

While custom metal pipes are inflexible in their actual physical sense, they offer you great flexibility with regard to the layout of your corrals or pastures. Prefab panels limit how many corrals you can fit in one area, for example. They also make it more challenging to put in alleys between corrals.

Aesthetics

If you use a custom metal fabricator for your property, they can usually add elements that make your property look more pleasing. A big argument against pipe corrals has always been that they aren't as pretty as wood, but nowadays metal fabricators are adding attractive gates, insignias, and artistic elements to give your land a unique look.

Extras

As long as you have a custom metal fabricator doing work on your property, it's easier to add other pipe elements, because they are already there with their equipment, and they are already hauling supplies to your property.

Other items you could consider having custom made include

• stall doors
• bale lifters or haulers
• blanket racks
• grooming stations

Irrigation

Another extra it may pay to have installed or upgraded at the same time is piped irrigation for your corrals. If you're tired of filling troughs with a hose or carrying buckets morning and night, think about adding self-watering stations to each corral. If you or your hired help ever forget to water, your horses won't be in danger of going thirsty or even getting colic.

Rapport

Once you have a relationship with a metal fabricator, you'll have someone who can do other metal work on your property, such as repairs or additions. They may even be able to do welding work on your heavy equipment and save you some time, money, and aggravation.

Value

Having a properly fenced horse facility may increase the value of your equestrian property, should you ever want to sell it or even use the equity to borrow against. Ask a knowledgeable realtor in your area about the value of having custom fabricated metal corrals and pasture fencing.

Your horses are a big investment and maybe even part of your family. Take the time to fence their areas in properly by using a custom metal fabricator, and you've taken a big step in protecting them and providing them with improved quality of life.

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