Tennessee’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Shelbyville is the heart of Tennessee Walking Horse country — home of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration — and Bedford County around it is a working patchwork of training barns, show barns, and breeding farms around Wartrace, Bell Buckle, and Normandy. Those barns stand in open pasture, and Middle Tennessee storms roll across the county at full strength all season. We protect the whole property: farmhouse, show barns, training barns, shops, and run-in sheds, every building covered.
From Shelbyville’s show grounds through Wartrace, Bell Buckle, and Normandy to the farm roads beyond, Bedford County’s barns hold horses, hay, feed, and tack — a season of work and a stable of animals under one roof, standing in open fields. A show or training barn is usually the tallest structure on the farm, and a strike to a barn roof can ignite framing or hay and send destructive current through every circuit on the property. Farmhouses and country homes on the same open ground share the exposure.
WB Lightning Rods protects Bedford County properties the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, show barns, training barns, shops, and sheds into one plan, with grounding sized for local clay and limestone-country soils. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Training and show barns across Bedford County stand in open fields — the tallest structures around, holding horses, hay, and tack. A barn fire is the worst-case loss protection is built to prevent.
A Walking Horse barn holds animals, feed, bedding, and equipment in one timber or metal structure. Protecting the barn protects the whole operation at once.
Bedford County’s rolling, open ground gives storms nothing to break on. Farm roofs and barn ridgelines are where that energy lands, all season long.
One company for the whole property — farmhouses, show and training barns, breeding farms, and shops, anywhere in Bedford County.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Discreet, low-profile systems for Shelbyville farmhouses and country homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines that respect the architecture.
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, show barns, training barns, shops, and outbuildings — 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 Bedford County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on Bedford County farms.
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 Bedford County clay and limestone-country 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.
Show barns, training barns, pole barns, equipment shops, run-in sheds, and garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Bedford County horse farm is never one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — farmhouse, show barns, training barns, pole buildings, shops, and run-in sheds, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, wash racks, barn fans, and arena lighting all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies farm by farm. Neighboring farms that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Tennessee statewide, a Shelbyville farm and a second property elsewhere in Tennessee are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — horse barns, arenas, and farmhouses 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 Tennessee storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, show and training barns, pole barns, shops, and run-in sheds 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.
Yes. Every structure on the property is designed into one plan: farmhouse, show barns, training barns, arenas, and shops, each with its own terminals, conductors, and grounding, priced together as a property package.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, wash racks, and barn fans. 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.
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 property — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
Yes. When neighboring farms 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.
A tall tree close to the house or barn can side-flash a strike into the roof, or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We offer lightning protection for trees themselves — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
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