Not every project needs a crew on site for a week. Sometimes what is needed is the hard part — the timber, cut right, fitted, and ready to go together — with the assembly handled by whoever is already there.
That is what a kit is. We cut and fit the package at the mill, mark the pieces, and hand over something that goes up in order rather than a pile of lumber and a problem.
Who this is actually for
Builders and contractors who want the timber work done properly without setting up to do heavy timber fabrication for one element of a job.
Owners who genuinely do their own work and have the equipment and the help. Timber is heavy, and an entry arch is a tall thing to raise. This is a real consideration, not a formality.
Remote or hard-access sites where getting a crew out repeatedly is the expensive part of the project, and a delivered, pre-fitted package is a better use of everyone’s time.
If none of those describe you, having us build it is usually simpler and often not much different in cost once the logistics are counted honestly.
What we cut
Pergola packages. Posts, beams, rafters, and slats in rough-sawn timber, cut to your span and height with the connections worked out.
Entry arch packages. The header, posts, and bracing for a ranch entrance, sized to your actual opening — which is the dimension that matters and the one no catalog product gets right.
Both are cut from timber we mill ourselves, which is why the sizes are set by your project rather than by what a supplier stocks.
Getting the dimensions right
Nearly everything about a kit comes down to the measurements we start from, so this is where the conversation begins.
For an arch: the width of the opening, the height you need to clear, and what has to pass under it. Equipment, hay trucks, horse trailers, and moving trucks all have opinions about that clearance, and the honest number is the tallest thing that will ever come through, not the tallest thing you own now.
For a pergola: the area you are covering, the height, and whether the top stays open or gets closed in. An open slat top and a covered top are different structures, because a covered top carries snow.
For either: what the posts are landing on and what the ground is like there, because the footings are part of the design even when they are not part of the package.
What a kit does not include
Worth being direct about this.
Footings and site work. These depend entirely on your soil and your frost depth, and they are poured on site. We can do them, or your builder can, but they are not in a box.
The raising. Heavy timber needs equipment and hands. For an arch in particular, this is the step to plan properly rather than improvise.
Finish. Timber can go up raw and weather to grey, or be finished. If you want it finished, doing it before assembly is far easier than after.
Delivery and lead time
Both depend on the project, and we would rather give you a real answer than a general one.
Timber packages are heavy and long, so how a kit reaches you is a genuine logistics question: where the site is, what can get in, and how it comes off the truck. Cutting time depends on the design and on what else is running at the mill.
Tell us where it is going and what you are building, and we will tell you what is actually workable for your situation.
If you are not sure
The most useful thing you can send is dimensions and a photo of the spot. From there we can tell you whether a kit makes sense, what it would involve, and whether you would be better off having us build it on site instead.
We would rather talk you out of a kit that is wrong for your situation than sell you one you end up fighting.
