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Season 1 · Episode 144April 3, 202540:08

Hostile Takeover: Susan & Shawn Unleashed (While Brian’s Tied Up… Literally)

Episode Summary

In this episode, Susan and Shawn take over the show while Brian is at ISC West, and the conversation quickly turns into a lively mix of industry updates, training news, and product talk. They recap the recent retreat, which drew strong attendance and is already close to sold out for next year, and they highlight upcoming Fence Workers Association resources in Spanish, including FWA Health and Fence University classes. They also preview the Fence Show in October and the CMM training event, where attendees will see hands-on demonstrations, router training, and a new no-dig vinyl concept that the hosts hint could be a major game changer. A large portion of the episode focuses on Cat 5 Gates and the Instigate system. Jason Bane explains how the gate system was born from solving real contractor problems in Florida: making a lightweight, rackable, adjustable gate that can be installed quickly and modified on site if conditions change. The hosts discuss the benefits of prefab, patent-protected gate kits, especially for vinyl, aluminum, and wood jobs where field adjustments, wind resistance, and installer errors are common. They emphasize durability, speed, lifetime warranty appeal, and the value of using proven systems instead of fabricating from scratch. The episode closes with a clear message: contractors who want to see what’s next in gates and no-dig solutions should attend the upcoming trainings and events.

With Brian conveniently “indisposed,” Susan and Shawn hijack the mic and bring in a surprise guest for some unfiltered shop talk, laughs, and a little chaos. It’s My Fence Life… but with the grown-ups out of the room.

Topics Discussed

Cat 5 Gates Instigate systemFence Show 2024 previewCMM training eventno-dig vinyl fence innovationFWA Health and Spanish resourcesFence University classesretreat sold out next yearrackable adjustable gate kits

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Oh my goodness what's happening not finally got rid of that other guy that's always here thank you I don't remember who that was what was that guy's name again I don't remember bod T something oh yeah Fred aluminum Fred aluminum there we go it's a this a hostile takeover now we have the person that was behind the curtains always in charge is now in total charge of the show yeah I think that means you have to be nice to me unfortunately you have all the control right now right so 100% behavior and then but there two of us here on our side we team up against you we got Jason Bane from cat five gates how's it going he's in the uh Mr Fence Studios right now which I'm having horrible trouble with lighting tonight like it's crazy I think it's because I don't have enough facial hair so the camera's freaking out because Jason has all his facial hair good color and it's like oh my God I got make SE like he's plet Mars well probably because we were late because you had to go take fancy shower unlike the rest of us who just had to show up here and get to work I just shave all this stuff it's a little but hey what's happening in the world here why is Jason here we have fence we're in the middle of fence Madness right now right smack dab hump day in the middle of it uh today we did a decent Siz job of king plus yep and we put in three cat five instigate systems a day right together that's the first time him and I have ever worked side by side on these Gate Systems that's right um and uh we worked through some clever ideas we did inswing gate outswing Gates yep uh and then we learn both learned some things I think we're gonna be able to make a better gate system from what we already had right so% uh we've had a lot of people here probably pushing 25 30 people here so far for the week we did do the no that uh supposedly was not going to happen or shouldn't do I don't know people say [ __ ] like that I don't we'll see how it goes but but we just so happened that we had 30 ass grown men stand on it on the very edge of it and uh it didn't even it was good autch didn't even didn't even move a lick but I don't know how how or why that happened but that last night we had a massive party here yep I mean we had Dale bring out his first he cooked his uh so it's called um smoke and R he's going have a theme to his food trailer that is blue of course that's right it was delicious thank you Dale he bleeds blue all the way through right so last night he had brisket he smoked for 24 hours had sandwiches and fries but he's just getting started who knows what he's to come up with he got his food license yesterday got his permit he got into the first taco festival for food trucks coming up the end of this month um so you know trial run we were his we were his guinea pigs of trial run big thumbs up man good job everyone loved it so I will always be his guinea pig if he wants to feed me anything the answer is yes I will try it what I mean great talent you know huge Talent oh John M was here last night look he's got in the comments watching uh he had some of the food uh he stayed at the house here for a few days and his wife Lindsay fantastic Mark Mark Olsson and Tanya were here last night as well and an abundant of other people right Jason Smith and this entire team uh were here there's a lot of people here last night even Homeland was here Barry and Joe were here too so themselves so you got some of my cun heading up that way too yeah so yeah so Nate AAR yeah you almost got it almost got it it yeah a bear Nate a bear is on his way he's a little late to the party he's coming in for the last two days was gonna be probably a little wet yeah but you know like I've always said before if it ain't raining we ain't training right that's true I've had people messaged me and say um you know are you are you gonna be training I'm like well if it's raining yeah we're training so we're g to get after it so um how was the retreat we're well I know I know we're weeks past it but we haven't talked to you in a few weeks oh really uh retreat was phenomenal it was it was amazing um we topped the previous year which is hard to do because it was great the previous year as well um people left very energized um there is a private group Facebook group for those people that that go through every year and so watching the activity and the growth in that group is awesome because you the learning continuing and the growing continuing the relationships continue

Long past those few days it was so successful this how this how I'll tell you how successful it was we have only five rooms left for next year right now and my wife was talking to uh the people we rent the houses the two houses from about getting the third or another 18 room house instead of a 10 and a 26 to open up capacity because we're concerned with we only have five rooms left right now right what's going to H we normally sell the rooms in in about two to three months prior to the event well the event's in March next year that's 11 months so that's a problem so I'm I'm just like if FBI calls that a clue like capacity might be an issue so uh so that's how great the event was that pretty much everyone that was there says oh no no no no no we're coming back I'm like well [ __ ] yeah it's a good problem to have all right so FYI if you're looking to get into Retreat next year you might want to go ahead and get that room now so where is Brian why what this guy why is he not so Brian is at ISC West which is like one of the largest trade shows in the United States it happens in Las Vegas every year it's a security show but they do everything all kinds of perimeter security and like cyber security and the whole nine and he's out there you know shaking hands and kissing babies and just to the big right spreading the good news of the F show and the security ex Expo coming up uh October 1st through 3rd go to fin show.com to secure your your uh pth the truth truth be told we sent Bryant a link that doesn't work so he's currently still trying to log in right right ISC West right now freaking out hey guys what's if you if you've ever been in the Venetian in their trade room spaces like there's no internet service it's underground it's ginormous it's a g concrete building it's beautiful but yeah there's no there's no internet down there so we don't need them anyways I'm gonna turn this whole light off I'm tired of light there we go try that there we go like I don't know I don't know but anyways um I want to talk about something very quickly um so um fwa is working on um our new Facebook page and our new landing page on fence workers.org it's called fwa in espanol um we're in the process of doing all of our resources in Spanish um we have a team working on it and we want to make sure that everybody has access to all of our resources like fwa Health our um Milo's Pro discount ADP Payroll Services um boot bar discounts and then of course the fench university as well so you know if you didn't know fench University had their first newsletter come out so you go to F university.com backs subscribe and it'll be coming out regularly these are all the classes coming up April May June July and August for right now and June is all in Spanish June is all in Spanish that's pretty good holy crap who's who can Brian speak Spanish Brian will not be teaching that class I've already made that clear on the uh fwa and espanol page it would be like me try talk Spanish man oh my God it's not good well you know his entire family is Mexican how come he doesn't speak Spanish that's what I want to know I spent five years just barely north of the Border in my high school years you know Junior High to high school and I don't speak any Spanish all I knew is what a burrito and a taco was so my name is sha aana basically Tiana I like tacos what you got next

What someday we're gonna fix it that's that's me someday we're gonna fix no never better picture okay so all of our questions come from the fence industry only page um this is Freddy Solace he's a top contributor has anyone built a six- foot privacy fence with two- foot lattice on top without using 12 foot posts without using 12 foot posts well yeah you can do king plus and use a uh 10 foot post five in five out I don't think that's what he's looking for for an answer at all he's probably seem like it he's looking for like uh wood Bing set I would imagine I would recommend no I would recommend using the correct uh Hy post what you need for that like what is he thinking like eight so he's gonna he wants to use like he probably just wants to use six foot tall fence and just like screw the lce on top that's what it seems like yeah um I don't think I would do that I mean could you do it yes would we look at that and say ah yeah that's right how we would reck if we saw a guy just screw a twoof foot Lett top yeah there' be some pictures taken right we're going to send that I guarantee I mean I just I you have to have some I tell you what if you built a six foot tall fence with with normal structure and then you you scab two by4 this is what I'm thinking my mind scab two by fours at the back of that and ran that up so that ran up eight foot but it was tied into all the fence below like vertically to hold the lattice I I mean if the question is you already have a six' t fence can you add lattice to top that might be what he's thinking I wouldn't do it from scratch you could definitely do it but if you add you add two vertical 2x4s next to every post on both sides of them they run up they're eight foot long yeah screwed to all three rails and they're only up there at extra two foot and only holds lattice right that might work but you have to have additional structure yeah it might you screw it up there with a box or something no it's G to have the whole ver 24 so I don't know if that's what you ask for Freddy but there's maybe a suggestion love it love it okay I got Wesley Moore who's also an All-Star contributor um he wants to know what size Square Tubing do y'all use for Metal Frames privacy Gates what width and thickness well it's about three and a half inches by an inch and a quarter an inch and a half or so inough yeah and the rails are about uh one inch by three and a half yep I don't know any other way you would want to build a gate with Metal Frames out S I know I have no idea we don't know what you're talking about man sorry that's how the C five and yate kits are built there there's a lot of guys building with square frames inch and a half uh maybe two inch I don't know or round tube as well a round tube and they're welding it together and that's a common thing because because the instigates in the cat pies weren't readily available weren't even a thing and so now that we have that readily available I don't know if it's really advantageous to use a welded system because now we have to have somebody mod fabricate that right it's not rackable in the field it doesn't line up with the rails it doesn't even look like a rail right um we can't modify the width in the field no uh it doesn't match like there's all these reasons and cost wise is probably about similar cost right so Wesley I would I would strongly urge you to consider looking at some of those other systems out there uh before you get too far in the Weeds on welding tubing frames that we're kind of going away from yeah there you go and Evan saying wood instigate kit is the only way to go boom it's very true and then I got Zach Romero we all know who that guy is he wants to know what is your preferred viny rail retention method uh just looking at our processes and if we can make change or improve or if we should just hold the course I do have a suggestion for this we've been doing vinyl for a while and we know longer rely on the tabs notches same whatever you call them same for us okay the vinyl material I would say has become thinner or more breaks easier there not as Stout right yeah so trusting that tab is just we we end up having failures so what we've done because we made it mandatory that every single vinyl fence that we put together has a top rail tie installed inside the top of the post period it's next to nothing it costs literally cents okay and it makes sense so that's what holds the top rail in um for the bottom rail we're using nothing but no dig so

Because of that reason the rail is stuck between two steel posts and can't move right however in high high winds like above 100 mph winds we had a failure with that so bottom rails blew out because the top rail can't move the post can't move so something's got to give so bottom rail actually flexed and bowed enough that it came out of the post and so we now offer here's a third option to our customers is we offer um wind locks as an upgrade have a wind locks oh John mlan just got it look at that nice timing on that John mlan wind locks uh what are wind locks wind locks are literally just a number 12 what was that souday 12 12 12 by 3 inch long black uh self-tapping uh hex head screw okay we go through the post at the bottom through the post to the rail that's what we're calling a wind lock the reason why we're using the word terminology wind lock because this an add-on the homeowner can add if they would like right it is an exposed screw which we are all scared to death of oh my God don't put any screws in the fence but if it's wind lock and the homeowner pays you a dollar per piece to add them to the fence they're not going to complain they're actually going to brag what they do is they show them off to their neighbors say haha we have wind locks and you don't I love it we I'm serious you know I just want it to work I just don't want it to blow out so it's their choice if they don't want them they don't have to put them in right and I got one more piece of housekeeping before we talk all about Jason and H Cat 5 Gates yes oh yes coming up right around the corner yes use that QR code right there so you can sign up for this free training he will be doing um all kinds of Hands-On Sean King noig systems but also router training how many have had router training probably nobody probably nobody I'm looking forward to that piece right so uh yes the router training and the event uh Friday night right so we don't the ball game we're be in the suite listen this is an event don't want to miss we're talk they be there cocon you say that too loud they will be driving that damn trailer all the way up there following behind me uh look guys this is the event you're not going to want to miss this is very close to the Texas event type of theme and environment we had going on down there a lot of guys had Foo there like what the hell happened 120 a great event right well this is this is what's happening again there already is 120 people registered to come up to this event right so we have a capacity of 150 I know we're going to be busting at 150 the suite can hold 150 so if you're making it making there's 30 spots left so don't don't mess around and wait too long and think you're just gonna just show up there the last day right so we are going to be looking at uh installing vinyl and we're going to be doing no dig vinyl no dig aluminum we're gonna have a brand new product that post most of you have never seen uh for the no dig U vinyl portion some are going to see it this Friday okay but that that's it that'll be top secret then it won't see it again until cmn uh it won't be on videos on Friday so you might want to be here Friday if you want to see this game changer with no dig vinyl and there may be even some other testing happening um I'm not g possibly rumor is there may be something else happening with the vinyls never been done before but you're gonna like I was not going to like you very much saying in general this particular

Thing did I lose you guys am I just sitting here silently by myself because y'all are frozen for me so apparently something really exciting with vinyl is happening um at the CMM training so I want to pull that back up don't forget to um scan that code right there RSVP and get your spot today yes they are frozen so I want to bring on Jason Bane but he is next to Sean King right now so let's talk about the fwa and some of our member benefits while I have you here oh they're completely gone now there's a huge storm at the moment I'm about to have a a huge storm myself John wow so anyways um some of the things I want to talk about are fwa Health if you go to fwa health.com you can sign up and I am on fwa health and I'm very happy with it and I go to the doctor whenever I want and whenever I need and I don't have any problems welcome back y'all in so we're on uh the cell phone at this point uh there is no internet currently that we have 20 was possible coming all the internet came back up so just bear with us if it's a little sketchy all right yeah obviously yeah what was I talking about before we went off you were talking about something amazing happening with vinyl that's never been done before so I pulled the screen back up and told everybody something amazing is happening I said potentially but you're gonna have to be there to see it so there I'm telling you it'll be a huge left let down if if the potential doesn't come to well there'll be a lot of people say that's impossible you can't do that that's what'll happen that's what's going to happen but they're got to see it to believe it like I'll be I I'll be damn I'll be honest with you I mean I'll be honest with you I haven't seen king plus install at all I'm from Florida and I'm learning new things and it's I change of plan maybe I don't know you know what I'm saying like it's different in person if you see it and you you deal with it and you build it it it's a different process so I mean I may come I may become a Believer you know it's just one of so you just you've never seen it before and you don't saw videos well I saw videos online but it doesn't do it justice this is why people question a lot of things I see online and on a video it just doesn't do the same yeah because it doesn't come through the same and today there were several people there that have seen videos but they've never seen in person and they were blown away like holy [ __ ] this actually was simple fast and really strong be damn but the thing I'm talking about up there is g to be taking what's never been done in vinyl and exploring the idea and say can we that's all that's we're gonna start the exploration of saying cany so you're have to be there to find out uh there's a lot of comments going on here front Rock fence is in there John McLean's in there what's up Jason Sean and Susan uh Sean's in there from CMM you might have already put him up there already of course ev's in there all the way I got Orlando Hench in there how's it going buddy he's right down the road from man oh yeah um I may not be seeing everyone Aaron PR Preston everybody yeah save them Susan is what he said save them Susan the internet may not be uh High spe right now we're making do right but get there to CMM 30 spots left let's before we get kicked off again let's let's hear the story of a cat five gates where' they come from why do we have them what are they tell us more please well uh I'm a contractor from Florida so I do this stuff too so uh it's it's nothing new to me all the problems that we've talked about from the questions before for the metal game the metal gates the uh you know if a customer moves it over a little bit your gate doesn't do any justice so you have to make a new one or build it on site so that started me down this whole process of trying to figure out how I can make a rackable adjustable gate that my guys can install with little instruction on a repeatable basis and I feel we've come up with something pretty close to that and uh that's what we've you know brought to the market and so everyone can see um but no I didn't start out with the intention of of doing Gates um it was basically for yourself yeah it started solving your problem yeah I was solving my problem yeah and I thought I was a good I thought I was a good you know solution to a problem that it seems like a lot of people have it's either paying a fabricator that uh can fabricate Gates fine but if the customer changes their mind that gate doesn't do

Any justice and they're going to throw in a pile or hopefully reuse it but that that's not always the case and uh this takes that out of the equation so it's working pretty well and people seem to be responding well to it and uh I don't know and then did you patent the system I have yep fantastic went through the patent process and which is fun it's I don't recommend it um dealing with the government is not very fun at all because they don't give you much instruction of what to do and it costs a lot of money so um with those two things involved um you know just if you have a good idea go through it but yeah the whole process was pretty fun it was taxing but um yeah it's uh that's what we got and hopefully you guys enjoy it hopefully you guys can see the benefit of it so you got these Gate Systems are currently going out all the country y'all need to go to a bathroom or a closet without any Windows right now yeah that's yeah is that what it says hold on let me check the radar it's literally what it says yeah tornado warning expires in uh 720 well 8:24 that's that's a warning yeah that means there's really a tornado out there it's that cell right there it's coming in oh it's coming right at us yeah holy [ __ ] well we may have to be in R he's inside I've already moved good for him so how do people find cat Gates real fast what's the website uh cat.com uh how the best way to do it to contact us on our cell phone our office phone sorry 32152 2699 or uh email us at catf gates lgma docomo to get a hold of us uh we're we got some stuff on the on the on our uh website but we've been having issues with our payment system so the best way to do is just contact us we'll send you over pricing and then we can figure out what you need from that point forward honestly easy peasy put the number of the comments we break out no he just spoke so fast I couldn't get oh I'm sorry sorry all right hold on we'll put it in there for you yeah yeah I wanted to catch it before we died out again so I'm sorry what's the phone number uh 321 y 522 6909 okay or the website the website is catf gates.com like that yep and then you can send and then I'll tell you the email also you can put it in there and then email cat five yep gate FL at gmail.com so hopefully we're still here tomorrow we're in trouble so if you're looking for the king plus version of the cat five gates that's the instigate kits at mrf tools.com with that because cat uh king plus the rail spacing is different um and then we have some different Hardware options box to to fit a king plus box so giant 6in facts things you wouldn't use on a dig and set system so right yeah well I had a lot more questions for you Jason but I think y'all safety is much more than podcast currently just broken up some is the important way that way then we'll see it coming I hope so huh it'll be fun yeah we're big boys yeah I mean getting down to the basement it will only take us about if you fall down half the flight it's pretty easy you know I think we're okay for I hear nothing outside we're sitting right by the windows I can see nothing so you know okay so then what is the value of a company purchasing your prefab Gates versus building them themselves so I guess it's kind of the same thing we talked about before was it's the fabrication on site that helps out um if a customer moves a gate you don't have to worry about building or buying another gate to fit the grade or if your guys accidentally misset post that happens all the damn time that's big one also today we had to move a post over three inches right because we hit a um a power line yeah so if you got a prefab gate bounced off a power line didn't go through it first of all we did do some teaching about that today right so um people are worried about with no dig what about utilities what if I blast through a power line and today I was watching two guys drive a post I instantly saw the post bounce vibrate and I shut them down like whoaa that's not normal and then we brought the whole group over there and showed them we did it again and everybody could see it we we actually on top of the power L again and everybody could see that and then I'd move the away and showed them to cond do it yeah and it's amazing how even it was a patriot with three guys hanging on it not even a scratch on the pipe so but we had to move it over which meant the gate was three inches smaller

And if we would had welded frames you're not doing a gate today we're in trouble but instead all we did with the cat five systems of the the instigate kits just cut it yep and then put together then we had 10 foot double Drive which ended up being 117 inches of 120 yeah right and it didn't it didn't take any longer than cutting a couple 2x4s it was that that that was it I mean the the relative to what it would have been correct correct yeah I mean you're we were training and teaching we were putting the gates together in about what 30 to 40 minutes I mean and my guys that are proficient doing this all the time with my fence company they're doing it in under 30 minutes and with the ballistic nails now it's going to be even less than that because that's that's a game changer it really is now you just nail pickets on like you on a wood frame and that they don't pull out or of that nature it's like there's nothing there's no reason to not use it like it's it's you're gonna have to be kind of stubborn yeah I mean it racks up to like mine my my version racks up to six inches out of the box and it can go up to 20 mine mine racks to 18 inches out of the box right yeah so there are some things that you can do I mean but it's a it's a it's really a no-brainer honestly it covers a lot of the things that we as installers run into on a constant basis frustrates everyone because if you spend a couple hours building a wood frame gate and then all of a sudden you realize that either you built it a little bit wrong or the holes were set a little bit wrong well we've just wasted that time and everything else and I'm sure you're not GNA be happy about it and your ball isn't either at that point in time and the job don't get done that the day and that's one thing that's critically important if there's something that prevents you from getting a job done today it is really a big problem get the crew to go back out there and another day in your schedule when you're already busy to go do one little thing and finish up a date we need to be able to have the resources and the tools to get the job done that day and accom and and accommodate anomalies shit's going to happen we can't plan for okay rocks in the ground power lines whatever or even human error sometimes guys just accidentally set a HST in the wrong spot right having a few inches of of um play is nice yeah and where I'm at in Florida our property lines uh are five foot sometimes from the house and then you have irrigation and stuff like that running and you know you can make this gate as large as you need to given that you know let's talk about the weight you imag a fuel frame gate compared to this thing it's all aluminum right so like the gates are like 22 25 pounds 25 pound so it's that much less stress on the hinge on the hinge post even when you open and close it it's it's feather light like it's not a heavy Beast like our the M Academy ways of teaching how to build a no warping gate no second gate that thing weighed a God dang T yeah right and that's a lot of lot of momentum a lot of uh that you got to open and close that was even hazardous dangerous because the wind catch that thing right you got a 100 pound gate slamming right so tear up the handle but now 25 pound gate five foot wide pressure treated right oh and I bet the price of shipping's way better like getting all across the United States that's awesome yeah I don't you I mean what would you do with water frame you're not shipping that you got find a local guy to do that that's the another problem right where you and they're not gonna want to pay that typically because it cost us so high yeah up it's I love it so what is the difference between the Cat 5 gate and the insta gate minus the king plus it's the same system so we're we are partnering with Cat 5 and you know doing the right thing that a lot of people in our industry do do not do so rather than just copy his design we're paying him uh a world to to use the patent and make it more available to more people so our customers that already buying from our site other items are buying almost the same gate system we've made tweaks on it for us but in theory it's the same Theory uh we're using a different rivet pattern a little bit different bracing we're using a different powder coating finish ours comes in a complete box with everything hardwood wise even the drill bit the rivets the lags the we're doing that now finally we have Gates finally I mean that's what I meant to tell you earlier on so we have gate kits now too so either way so um it's not a competition uh we're both winning at this he's

Winning whether we sell them or he sells them right so we need more of that in our in our industry rather than trying to just trample on the guy that had the original idea and just copy it right like there needs to be more of this right so what trends do you see coming with this and like what's the direction do you think it's going for just pre he's selling gate kits like tons at a time and and we're we're we're trying to keep up with our process he actually can build Gates faster than us by a long shot so he's here helping us get our team up the speed because the demand is going through the roof this is what's happening we're getting orders for pallet loads right now people are loving this system and so the biggest problem we're going to have uh yes an adult can swing on the instigate system or two three of them can like it's they're durable yeah they're very durable they're they're they're I don't even know what to say man they're structurally sound they're made with rectangle tubing it's it's all rivets yeah these rivets yeah they're not like normal 316 rivets what's it it's 1,000 PB tensil no th pound yeah th000 pounds tensil and 500 pound Shear per rivet I have four per intersection I think you have five intersection so you're looking at about 5,000 pound 30 rivth in just the frame for me right and then we use self 32 for me yeah it's it's insane right they're very very strong and there what the thing is is that the they're very strong for a very light gate right right so it's it's we're moving the needle both directions we're building a stronger gate and making it lighter so in result is no sag no twisting no sagging no warping I'll make one swing on and prove it I'll take you up on that hey I'm trying to find a failure point at this point we need a bigger post John yeah for no reason okay so your nickname is corner post so I need to have that some bit like just bolt it to a wall like go find a building all right like down in Florida but that can an adult swing on the gate yes yes no so we're getting rid of that and it looks and they look clean the picture from today shows that those rails are lined up perfectly with the fence I mean home owners love them yeah and they're a great upgrade imagine if you're the guy in the area with you know these lightweight strong Gates sure yeah lifetime warranty on them I don't see why you wouldn't who else gets a lifetime warranty on a wood gate I'll wait crickets right so I would I'll be honest with you I was building a wood gu I don't care what kind of King Plus or not I'm not warrant him for life I'm sorry you know for the people at home who just refuse to be Believers in the system and to you know fast forwarding their processes and saving time and money like what advice do you have to them in building um Gates because they're making very common mistakes what do they need to do if they're not gonna do it two words let them they'll find the failures yeah over yeah You' take a horse of water but at that point it's on you so let them is my new thing right now I'm tired of arguing people over it I don't need to prove it to you if you don't understand you don't see it then just let let them but if you would love to have a conversation and see it we'll be more than happy to go over it with you hey Heather the best thing I can say is to try it out if you if you don't like it you've wasted one one cat five gate or one instigate and you've wasted your time for maybe a half an hour 45 minutes I would go so far as to say if you buy an instigate kit from us and you try it out and you don't think it's strong you don't like it I'll give you that back in a tool credit period in the story you have zero loss I'm sorry you credit y'all come on I mean come on I mean I'm just telling you that's like I mean fine it it works happy but once the moment they get in their hands I'll be a believer done I feel so I mean the guys who have seen it during the training even appreciate it and it's it's a thing that installers need it really is like and that's why I spent so much time dealing with it because I feel it's a very valuable product that we can offer to our customers that's I mean you offer if you're the only one around your area offering a lifetime warranty gate then you're going to stand out from your competition I can guarantee you and when your team installs it flawlessly and you're the only one that has a you know black powder coated gate that that it's

It's a beautiful addition to your fence I mean it's it sells itself so we we are 100% on these Gates every gate that we build is is in instate uh for wood like this way and we have also and the reason why we have instate name and not Cat 5 Gates if you're wondering why we didn't just sell cat five gates is that we have instate line so we have the cat five and then we have uh the aluminum version and the vinyl version okay so we have gate kits just like the Cat 5 designed to solve the vinyl gate problem and the aluminum gate problem both built in the field hi okay so my my last question for you guys um I think it'll be a good like ending point yep what's next what's the future of C volume volume yeah I think I think both of us is is about how do we get the volume up right if there's that many fence companies in the United States and everyone that sees them are loving them it's gonna be like how do we get enough of these out there and get them in the hands supposed be a volume issue I think I feel too um and but for as far as Improvement wise the gate system works fantastic but um I'm sure we're always modifying things a little you know just like the two of us working together today it's not going to end from there we're gonna be like okay wait think that through how can we make this system a little better right I think the next step would probably be some specifically made Hardware okay that's where we're I got a couple things in the work that I have to discuss with you later on too that uh may be I can't discuss it right now but um it may be a pretty big Game Changer live on my f life we're all I don't want to because I didn't talk to them about this yet this was like an impromptu thing unfortunately but oh I mean if if it can come to fruition then it can be a great thing for the for the industry so we're not gonna stop how about that yeah if we have a better idea tomorrow we're GNA make it we're gonna make an improvement we've done that with everything that I've ever been involved with and that's usually I'm okay with change I mean that's what my says for God's sakes no it says chance I was say I don't see a g the other one said change who said fencers could read uh what backwards for me I can't even see it oh Chris he got his Patriot today he just unboxed unboxed it today sent me a text he's so excited pound that's am that's an amazing piece of equipment he got to see the Patriot in action today it's a beast awesome it's a beast NE Cliff h yep see just stay tuned that's a we deal over here man sorry okay well um I don't really have much else than I hope to see everybody at the fin show in October fin show.com we do have our discounted room rates online so go and book your room today if you're G to ask me when the uh Room box closes it closes when it's full there you go don't be don't dilly dally and I'll see most of you guys at CMM and uh we're going to go to the bar downstairs and wait and ride this thing out hey y'all be careful I'll check on youall in the morning see you bye bye

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