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From Whiskey to Fences

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From Whiskey to Fences On June 1st: In 1495, John Cor, a monk, recorded the first known batch of Scotch whiskey; In 1792, Kentucky was admitted as the 15th state into the United States of America; In 1796, Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state. In the 18th and 19th centuries Irish and Scottish distilling techniques and immigrants helped in the development of Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey. During this same time, Irish and Scottish immigrants also brought over the art of building stone dykes or rock walls (dry-stacked rock fences.) Stone removed from fields (barley fields in Scotland and corn fields in Kentucky and Tennessee) could be fashioned into mortarless rock walls. These were balanced structures of arranged stacked rocks free-standing by only their weight and friction. As more property was turned for use into growing food, the need for additional fences arose to keep animals off of the growing crops. Tahoe Fence appreciates the mastery and time that goes into making whiskey, bourbon, and dry-stack rock walls. Our patience wears thin though when we're digging rocks out of post holes, let alone having to stack them. Tahoe Fence does install rock-like molded fences. Pictured is a Tahoe Fence dark brown granite molded-stone "Boulder" style panel fence in Yerington (Lyon County.) 2025From Whiskey to Fences

On June 1st:

In 1495, John Cor, a monk, recorded the first known batch of Scotch whiskey;

In 1792, Kentucky was admitted as the 15th state into the United States of America;

In 1796, Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state.

In the 18th and 19th centuries Irish and Scottish distilling techniques and immigrants helped in the development of Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey.

During this same time, Irish and Scottish immigrants also brought over the art of building stone dykes or rock walls (dry-stacked rock fences.) Stone removed from fields (barley fields in Scotland and corn fields in Kentucky and Tennessee) could be fashioned into mortarless rock walls. These were balanced structures of arranged stacked rocks free-standing by only their weight and friction.

As more property was turned for use into growing food, the need for additional fences arose to keep animals off of the growing crops.

Tahoe Fence appreciates the mastery and time that goes into making whiskey, bourbon, and dry-stack rock walls. Our patience wears thin though when we’re digging rocks out of post holes, let alone having to stack them.

Tahoe Fence does install rock-like molded fences. Pictured is a Tahoe Fence dark brown granite molded-stone “Boulder” style panel fence in Yerington (Lyon County.) 2025

Happy Memorial Day

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Happy Memorial Day

A gentle breeze moves Old Glory like an ocean tide across the land.

Row upon row of waving flags gesture a welcome greeting from many dear departed friends.

Our promise to remember is without end.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend.

Pictured: Flags Waving in Fernley at Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery (Lyon County.)

Astounding Ash

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Astounding Ash 45 years ago this weekend, Mount St. Helens erupted. For 9 hours, ash was dispersed over an area nearly 22,000 square miles. While the damage from the eruption was devastating, including the loss of lives and properties, it produced about 540 million tons of ash. The Romans used volcanic ash from eruptions they witnessed in the making of their concrete. Some of the seawalls the Roman Empire built from this method still exist. The use of volcanic ash is being revisited by builders and engineers now in making lighter and more sustainable concrete. It's even being considered as an efficient energy storage medium for renewable power in concentrated solar power systems. Pictured: Solar Powered Wood Cantilever Slide Gate by Tahoe Fence with a Concrete Pad Mounted Operator in Tahoe City (Placer County.)Astounding Ash

45 years ago this weekend, Mount St. Helens erupted.

For 9 hours, ash was dispersed over an area nearly 22,000 square miles. While the damage from the eruption was devastating, including the loss of lives and properties, it produced about 540 million tons of ash.

The Romans used volcanic ash from eruptions they witnessed in the making of their concrete. Some of the seawalls the Roman Empire built from this method still exist.

The use of volcanic ash is being revisited by builders and engineers now in making lighter and more sustainable concrete. It’s even being considered as an efficient energy storage medium for renewable power in concentrated solar power systems.

Pictured: Solar Powered Wood Cantilever Slide Gate by Tahoe Fence with a Concrete Pad Mounted Operator in Tahoe City (Placer County.)

What Moms Like

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What Moms Like Did you know that Mother's Day is in a month named after a female deity? Like several of our calendar months, May comes from the Roman era. It's derived from the Roman goddess responsible for Spring growth and warmth, Maia. Whether you wish your mom a Happy Mother's Day, tell her that you love them, or treat them like a goddess, these are all things moms like. Happy Mother's Day! Pictured: Tahoe Fence loves our moms every day, and this Mother's Day with a card a fencer's mom would love, which features a slatted wire heart, and mom spelled with gate hinge brackets, and pipe from post cutoffs (2025.)What Moms Like

Did you know that Mother’s Day is in a month named after a female deity?

Like several of our calendar months, May comes from the Roman era. It’s derived from the Roman goddess responsible for Spring growth and warmth, Maia.

Whether you wish your mom a Happy Mother’s Day, tell her that you love them, or treat them like a goddess, these are all things moms like.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Pictured: Tahoe Fence loves our moms every day, and this Mother’s Day with a card a fencer’s mom would love, which features a slatted wire heart, and mom spelled with gate hinge brackets, and pipe from post cutoffs (2025.)

Off The Rails

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Off The Rails The week ahead has both the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and Cinco de Mayo on Monday. The Kentucky Derby, the longest held continuous sports event in America, is celebrating its 151st running. While Cinco de Mayo, which marks the Mexican army's victory over the French at the Battle of Pueblo, has been celebrated since 1862. And historically Americans like celebrating both. About 120,000 mint juleps are expected to be served at Churchill Downs over the weekend, which takes around 10,000 bottles of bourbon to make. And in 2014, it's estimated more than 335,000 gallons of tequila and mezcal were consumed by Americans on May 5th. Whichever event you'll be enjoying, be safe, and keep your celebration from going off the rails. Pictured: Tahoe Fence Powder Coated Black Over Galvanized Pipe Handrails at NorthStar (Truckee 2025.) These railings were installed on pre-galvanized, steel posts that are powder coated black. The rails were shaped onsite with galvanized pipe and brackets. Then the mocked-up rails were completed in Tahoe's gate shop. Next the rails were powder coated black. Finally, the finished rails are reinstalled onsite.Off The Rails

The week ahead has both the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and Cinco de Mayo on Monday.

The Kentucky Derby, the longest held continuous sports event in America, is celebrating its 151st running. While Cinco de Mayo, which marks the Mexican army’s victory over the French at the Battle of Pueblo, has been celebrated since 1862.

And historically Americans like celebrating both.

About 120,000 mint juleps are expected to be served at Churchill Downs over the weekend, which takes around 10,000 bottles of bourbon to make. And in 2014, it’s estimated more than 335,000 gallons of tequila and mezcal were consumed by Americans on May 5th.

Whichever event you’ll be enjoying, be safe, and keep your celebration from going off the rails.

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Powder Coated Black Over Galvanized Pipe Handrails at NorthStar (Truckee 2025.) These railings were installed on pre-galvanized, steel posts that are powder coated black. The rails were shaped onsite with galvanized pipe and brackets. Then the mocked-up rails were completed in Tahoe’s gate shop. Next the rails were powder coated black. Finally, the finished rails are reinstalled onsite.

Mother Nature Has Curves

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Mother Nature Has Curves Our world isn't flat. We live and work in/and around the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Here Mother Nature has curves and angles. While you can try and dress those angles with straight fence panels, there will be some gaps underneath that show too much. And/or don't keep enough of what's important in. With certain styles of iron (steel), vinyl, wire, and wood fences though, Tahoe Fence is able to follow those contours without stepping your fence. We can even create custom styles to meet your needs. And similar to our chain link and wood fences, we are able to install a steel fence for you on either metal or wood posts. Tahoe Fence can attach your steel fence almost anywhere on Mother Nature's solid surfaces. Pictured: Tahoe Fence Ornamental Iron (Steel) Modern Style Panels on Wood Posts on Hillside at Lake TahoeMother Nature Has Curves

Our world isn’t flat. We live and work in/and around the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Here Mother Nature has curves and angles.

While you can try and dress those angles with straight fence panels, there will be some gaps underneath that show too much. And/or don’t keep enough of what’s important in.

With certain styles of iron (steel), vinyl, wire, and wood fences though, Tahoe Fence is able to follow those contours without stepping your fence.

We can even create custom styles to meet your needs.

And similar to our chain link and wood fences, we are able to install a steel fence for you on either metal or wood posts. Tahoe Fence can attach your steel fence almost anywhere on Mother Nature’s solid surfaces.

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Ornamental Iron (Steel) Modern Style Panels on Wood Posts on Hillside at Lake Tahoe

Feeling Rejuvenated

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Feeling Rejuvenated With Easter this weekend, and Earth Day this next week, we're feeling rejuvenated. An increase in sunshine isn't hurting our mood either. We've taken that invigorating spirit and applied it to one of our own garden fences. These redwood pickets were removed from a jobsite decades ago. But they're still solid and even have the original stain on them. However, an occasional picket gets destroyed when the dog, so protective of the garden, goes after a blue jay or another nuisance too aggressively. If we're fortunate enough, we can save the picket top. They get new life as garden/Easter bunnies! Pictured: Tahoe Fence Repurposed Redwood Pickets as Bunnies for Easter in Carson City (2025.)Feeling Rejuvenated

With Easter this weekend, and Earth Day this next week, we’re feeling rejuvenated.

An increase in sunshine isn’t hurting our mood either.

We’ve taken that invigorating spirit and applied it to one of our own garden fences. These redwood pickets were removed from a jobsite decades ago. But they’re still solid and even have the original stain on them.

However, an occasional picket gets destroyed when the dog, so protective of the garden, goes after a blue jay or another nuisance too aggressively. If we’re fortunate enough, we can save the picket top.

They get new life as garden/Easter bunnies!

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Repurposed Redwood Pickets as Bunnies for Easter in Carson City (2025.)

Growing Your Space

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Growing Your Space Spring weather is here. Making it an ideal time to work in our gardens, tend to those flower beds, and grow your space to your liking. Your fence may need some tending too. It's an integral part to your yard. Not only does it make a nice backdrop for gardens and flowers, but it helps define your space. It can offer seclusion and reduce noise from the neighborhood. Fences help protect your garden or patios microclimates by buffering some of our strong winds. And they can help keep some of the wildlife around us from eating the flowers. If you find your fence needs some more care or attention than you can handle, contact us at Tahoe Fence. While me may not have green thumbs, we're all about helping grow your best space. Pictured: Tahoe Fence Overlapped-Cedar Box Style Patio Fence with Picket-Top Window in South Lake Tahoe (El Dorado County.)Growing Your Space

Spring weather is here. Making it an ideal time to work in our gardens, tend to those flower beds, and grow your space to your liking.

Your fence may need some tending too. It’s an integral part to your yard. Not only does it make a nice backdrop for gardens and flowers, but it helps define your space.

It can offer seclusion and reduce noise from the neighborhood. Fences help protect your garden or patios microclimates by buffering some of our strong winds. And they can help keep some of the wildlife around us from eating the flowers.

If you find your fence needs some more care or attention than you can handle, contact us at Tahoe Fence.
While me may not have green thumbs, we’re all about helping grow your best space.

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Overlapped-Cedar Box Style Patio Fence with Picket-Top Window in South Lake Tahoe (El Dorado County.)

Built For You

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Built For You Tahoe Fence has fabricated the majority of the gates we install over the last 50 + years. It's a specialty we're proud to continue still today. What we are unable to create ourselves, we have custom-made for our customers. The end result is always with the same goal in mind, gates built for you. Like this Tahoe Fence created bottom-track cantilever slide gate. Our customer needed a gate to secure this opening. When open the gate is to be hidden behind the masonry wall. The difficulty is that the return is only a few feet longer than the gate. By building a bottom-track cantilever, Tahoe Fence made a gate that fit, and that was built right for our customer. Pictured: Bottom-track cantilever slide gate by Tahoe Fence. It's a galvanized steel frame with a black, powder coated finish. Cedar boards are inset into the gate frame to match the adjacent fence and walk gate in Carson City (2025.) Built For You

Tahoe Fence has fabricated the majority of the gates we install over the last 50 + years. It’s a specialty we’re proud to continue still today.

What we are unable to create ourselves, we have custom-made for our customers. The end result is always with the same goal in mind, gates built for you.

Like this Tahoe Fence created bottom-track cantilever slide gate. Our customer needed a gate to secure this opening. When open the gate is to be hidden behind the masonry wall. The difficulty is that the return is only a few feet longer than the gate.

By building a bottom-track cantilever, Tahoe Fence made a gate that fit, and that was built right for our customer.

Pictured: Bottom-track cantilever slide gate by Tahoe Fence. It’s a galvanized steel frame with a black, powder coated finish. Cedar boards are inset into the gate frame to match the adjacent fence and walk gate in Carson City (2025.)

Woven in History

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Woven in History Would you believe that modern-day chain link fabrication had its start in the textile industry? The first patented chain link weaving machine was created in the 1840s, supposedly by Charles Bernard in England. The machine was based on the cloth weaving machines of the period used in textile manufacturing. Maybe that's why they call chain link material, chain link fabric! The first patent for chain link in the US was in the 1890s. And it's maintained a popularity woven throughout the years. In part, because of its economical cost compared to the production of other fence materials. And chain link's adaptability in various security applications makes it a confident material choice. No wonder chain link still accounts for more than 50% of market sales in the fence industry as recently as 2021. Tahoe Fence did quite a bit of weaving on this chain link project in Minden (Douglas County.) The job was over 6,500 linear feet of chain link fencing. In addition, it required top and bottom rails, barbed wire, and several gates. The double-swing gate pictured is over 50-ft wide (the width of the road.)Woven in History

Would you believe that modern-day chain link fabrication had its start in the textile industry?

The first patented chain link weaving machine was created in the 1840s, supposedly by Charles Bernard in England. The machine was based on the cloth weaving machines of the period used in textile manufacturing.

Maybe that’s why they call chain link material, chain link fabric!

The first patent for chain link in the US was in the 1890s. And it’s maintained a popularity woven throughout the years. In part, because of its economical cost compared to the production of other fence materials. And chain link’s adaptability in various security applications makes it a confident material choice.

No wonder chain link still accounts for more than 50% of market sales in the fence industry as recently as 2021.

Tahoe Fence did quite a bit of weaving on this chain link project in Minden (Douglas County.) The job was over 6,500 linear feet of chain link fencing. In addition, it required top and bottom rails, barbed wire, and several gates. The double-swing gate pictured is over 50-ft wide (the width of the road.)