Fortified—Install Day

Hand made things are better when made locally, by someone you trust. Khyle Ford checks all those boxes for us. Earlier this year, he fired up his welder for a special Fort project. His challenge: make a massive, custom gate to secure our courtyard entrance. And like many things, the project was complicated. Khyle had to engineer the gate’s attachment points into existing iron beams, and design an integrated human-sized door into the gate’s structure.

Hand made things are better when made locally, by someone you trust.

Today, Khyle and his crew installed the main gate sections. The project will wrap up next week, with final details and our Fort logomark welded onto the gate. But until then, we’re excited to share the progress—check out the 1-minute video below: