Workhorse fencing

About Workhorse fencing

In the late afternoon, as light starts to fail over the sagebrush flats around Rock Springs, Workhorse fencing is often out clearing driveways and gates along the ranch fence lines that catch every bit of the day's drifting snow. A gate buried under a drift is its own small emergency for a rancher trying to move stock or feed before dark, so the crew works fence-line properties with an eye for exactly where the wind piles deepest against a post line. Clearing before the light goes means racing a setting sun as much as a storm, working fast while there's still enough of it to see the drift lines clearly. A gate swinging free again, a driveway open straight out to the section road after a day that buried both, is a fair trade for a cold few hours. By full dark, the fence lines the crew worked are passable end to end.