Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Franklin County is the Cumberland Valley’s farm belt — one of Pennsylvania’s top dairy counties, with orchards climbing the South Mountain foothills and bank barns standing open between the ridges from Chambersburg to Mercersburg. Valley storms funnel between the mountains and reach those farms at full strength. We protect the whole farm: farmhouse, dairy barn, pole buildings, and silos, every building covered.
Franklin County farms work some of the best ground in the Cumberland Valley — dairy herds around Greencastle, Waynesboro, and Mercersburg, orchards in the South Mountain foothills, and produce and hay ground running up toward Shippensburg. The buildings follow the valley pattern: bank barns with hay in the mow, silos taller than anything around them, pole buildings full of equipment, and farmhouses standing in the same open fields. With ridges on both sides, summer storm lines funnel straight down the valley and reach those farms undiminished.
WB Lightning Rods protects Franklin County the way we’ve protected Pennsylvania farms since 1950 — whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, dairy barn, horse barn, pole buildings, shops, and silos into one plan, priced together. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so getting protected starts with one call.
The Cumberland Valley runs between South Mountain and the Tuscarora ridge, and storm lines travel it like a corridor. Farms on the valley floor take those storms at full strength, with no high ground to break them first.
A silo or bank barn standing in open fields is the highest point for hundreds of yards in every direction. Lightning doesn’t have to aim — the tallest structure is simply where it lands.
A modern dairy barn holds the herd, the feed, the milking equipment, and a season of hay. Losing the building is the smallest part of a barn fire — and timber framing with hay storage is a worst case once a strike lands.
One company for the whole farm — farmhouses, dairy barns, orchard buildings, pole buildings, and silos, anywhere in Franklin County.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems designed around fine architecture — stone, slate, and standing-seam metal roofs — with clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines.
Discreet, low-profile systems for older farmhouses and historic homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, protection you have to look for to see.
Barns, stables, and arenas protected along with the residence — horses, hay, and tack, all covered.
Agricultural buildings, equipment shops, and hay storage — the tallest structures on the farm, and the ones lightning finds first.
We protect all of your buildings — farmhouse, dairy barn, horse barn, pole barn, and equipment shops — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole property together, so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Mature oaks, maples, and specimen trees protected with their own terminals and grounding, so a shade tree never becomes the strike path to your roof.
Neighbors who install together save together — neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages for your street, road, or lake shore.
Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. Already have a system? We inspect it, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Building new? We design and install protection while the home or barn is going up — cleaner cable runs, nothing retrofitted after the fact.
Every WB system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines using UL-listed materials made in the USA — and designed for Franklin County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along barn ridgelines, silos, cupolas, and rooflines — the high points lightning seeks first on a Franklin County farm.
Heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, carrying strike energy safely down and away from the structure.
Deep-driven ground rods at each structure, sized for the valley’s limestone and shale soils, so strike energy disperses safely into the earth.
Metal roofing, gutters, water lines, and electrical services bonded to the protection system, so stray current can’t side-flash between metal parts.
Dairy barns, horse barns, pole barns, orchard buildings, equipment shops, and silos incorporated into the farm plan — no building left exposed.
A farm is never one building, and protecting it one building at a time leaves the gaps where losses happen. Our whole-farm packages price the property as one design — farmhouse, barns, pole buildings, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings separately and leaves nothing standing unprotected between them. Milking systems, well pumps, refrigeration, and orchard cold storage all ride the farm’s electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies farm to farm. Neighboring farms that install on the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, a Franklin County farm and a second property anywhere in the state are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations on working farms — bank barns, dairy barns, and farm buildings protected by our own crew.
Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your home — fast, accurate, and no obligation. Call 1-800-557-9037.
Our experienced crew installs the system, and every installation is personally supervised by the owner, start to finish.
Lifetime warranty on parts and labor, with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost. Then you watch Pennsylvania storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages cover the main house, barns, pole barns, shops, and outbuildings under one plan — we protect all of your buildings, with a lifetime of protection, and pricing the property together costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm packages price multiple buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your farm — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
Yes — inspections and repairs are a big part of what we do. We inspect older systems, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Yes. Silos are often the tallest structure on the farm, and pole buildings hold the equipment the farm runs on. Both are designed into the farm’s plan with their own terminals, conductors, and grounding.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself — or one that hits utility lines down the road — can send a damaging surge through wiring, milking equipment, well pumps, and refrigeration. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the rods on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Yes. When several farms or homes on the same road install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup — and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages. It only takes one organizer to get it started.
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