Orchard entrances are sized by harvest equipment, not by driveways. We are about 20 minutes north of Vacaville on Highway 505.
Vacaville Custom Metal & Electric Gates provides custom metal gate fabrication in Winters, CA, and we are about 20 minutes north of Vacaville on Highway 505, so this is local work for us rather than a service area we drive out to occasionally. Orchard entrances are sized by harvest equipment, not by driveways. You can see the full scope of what we build across our ten gate services.
Winters sits surrounded by walnut and almond orchards, tomato fields and vineyards, and the gates we fabricate here are overwhelmingly orchard and ranch entrances rather than residential driveway gates. The opening width is set by what has to pass through it at harvest: orchard equipment, trailered implements and harvest trucks, none of which fit a standard residential dimension. Because Winters sits at the foot of the Vaca Mountains in genuine wildland-urban interface, we also design these entrances so emergency vehicles can get in, which is a fabrication requirement and not an afterthought.
Winters was founded in 1875 when the railroad crossed Putah Creek, and the downtown still runs on 19th-century brick. Around it sits some of the best agricultural land in the state: walnut and almond orchards, tomato fields and vineyards. Most of the gates we build here are not suburban driveway gates at all, they are ranch and orchard entrances on parcels measured in acres.
Winters sits at the foot of the Vaca Mountains where the valley heat meets the canyon wind coming down off Lake Berryessa and Highway 128. It is also genuine wildland-urban interface, which means Cal Fire access requirements are part of the gate design, not an afterthought.
Every Winters job covers the same scope as our custom metal gate fabrication service, which includes:
See the full custom metal gate fabrication specification, including our process, the options comparison and what drives the price.
Beyond residential work we also cover the agricultural processing operations on the edge of town, the orchard and vineyard properties along Putah Creek Road, and the downtown commercial block. Worth knowing: Winters is the one city we serve in Yolo County, not Solano, and the permit path is different, and that shapes what a gate here has to cope with. For facility-scale entrances see our commercial and industrial gate installation page.
Custom Metal Gate Fabrication is one of ten gate services we offer to Winters property owners. You can see them all together on our Winters service area page. Everything below is available to Winters property owners:
We also serve Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City, Dixon, Vallejo, Benicia and Winters, and you can explore every service area we cover. Get in touch to book a free measurement in Winters.
UL 325 requires at least two independent entrapment protection devices for each entrapment zone in each direction of travel. Inherent force sensing alone does not meet it. Every powered gate we build gets photo eyes or safety edges wired and tested in addition to the operator's own force sensing, and we demonstrate the reversal to you before we hand over the remotes.
You approve a drawing with real dimensions, infill spacing, hardware placement and finish specification before any steel is cut. Changes are cheap on paper and expensive in welded steel. It is also the stage where an HOA or a historic district design review gets satisfied, which costs a revision rather than a rebuild.
The frame is fabricated in our own shop rather than ordered in and adjusted on site. That means the gate is built square to your measured opening, the welds are ground before finishing rather than after, and when something needs adjusting years later there is no supplier in the middle of the conversation.
Wide enough for your largest harvest equipment with real clearance, which is usually wider than owners first estimate. We ask what actually passes through at the busiest time of year and size to that, then confirm the opening still meets emergency access width, which matters in the wildland-urban interface here.
No. Estimates are free and we come to you, which is about 20 minutes north of Vacaville on Highway 505. We measure the clear opening, the grade across the travel path and the distance to power, then quote against those numbers rather than over the phone.
Winters is in Yolo County, so the permit does not go through Solano County at all. The City of Winters reviews it, and rural parcels outside the city line go to Yolo County. In the wildland-urban interface we also design for emergency-vehicle access.
Winters and dixon are both agricultural, but winters adds canyon wind and wildfire access rules, which usually means we can normally offer you a choice of times rather than a single slot weeks out. Call us and we will tell you honestly what the current lead time looks like.
Free on-site estimate across Winters and Yolo County.
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