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Chester County hunt country is a working landscape of horse farms — bank barns, indoor arenas, and stable yards spread across the rolling ground around Unionville, Kennett Square, and Chadds Ford. A barn full of horses and hay is the tallest, most valuable building on the farm. We protect the whole property: house, barns, arenas, and outbuildings, every building covered.
Southern Chester County is some of the most storied horse country in America — the Cheshire Hunt country around Unionville, the eventing and training farms of East Marlborough, Newlin, and Pocopson, and the stable yards running down through Kennett Square, Landenberg, and Chadds Ford. The buildings are built big on purpose: bank barns and stable blocks with hay in the loft, indoor arenas with wide clear spans, and run-in sheds scattered across open pasture. In a summer storm, those barns are the tallest structures on the property by a wide margin.
WB Lightning Rods protects horse farms the way we’ve protected Pennsylvania farms since 1950: whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, stable barns, arena, pole buildings, and run-in sheds into one plan, priced together, built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so getting protected starts with one call.
A stable barn holds the horses, the hay, the feed, and the tack — a season of work and animals that can’t be replaced at any price. Timber framing with hay storage is a worst case once a strike lands, and barns are where strikes land.
An indoor arena or a bank barn on open pasture 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.
Turnout fields ringed with mature trees and metal fencing carry their own exposure. A complete farm design looks at the whole property — barns, sheds, waterers, and the fence lines between them.
One company for the whole farm — farmhouses, stable barns, indoor arenas, pole buildings, and run-in sheds, anywhere in Unionville & Chester 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, stable barns, arena, 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 Chester County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along barn ridgelines, arena roofs, cupolas, silos, and rooflines — the high points lightning seeks first on a Chester County horse 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 local soils — including the county’s schist and limestone ground — 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.
Stable barns, indoor arenas, pole barns, run-in sheds, and equipment shops incorporated into the farm plan — no building left exposed.
A horse 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, stable barns, arena, pole buildings, and sheds, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings separately and leaves nothing standing unprotected between them. Well pumps, arena lighting, wash-rack and barn circuits, and automatic waterers 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 Unionville 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 — horse barns, bank 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. Run-in sheds, equipment sheds, and other outbuildings are designed into the farm’s plan with their own terminals, conductors, and grounding — the goal is no building on the property left exposed.
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, well pumps, waterers, and arena lighting. 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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