Business: Good fences make good business at Buffalo

After 30 years in business, Kevin and Pam Craigie, the owners of Buffalo Fence & Barn Company, have seen a lot of changes.

Kevin Craigie said when he moved to Flagstaff in 1969, there was nothing on Milton Road between the Arizona Department of Transportation office and Taco Bell, and Interstate 40 hadnt reached Williams yet.

Flagstaff has gotten a whole lot larger, he said. I think that the population was around 20,000 or something and thats including the students from (Northern Arizona University). You always knew someone when you walked into a restaurant.

Buffalo Fence was part of that growth.

The company sells and installs all types of fencing for both commercial and residential sites, including metal laser cut decorative fencing. It also offers automatic gates, sheds and barns. The only fences the company doesnt build are cement block.

Weve done work for the U.S. government, the state, (Northern Arizona University), the county and the city, Kevin Craigie said.

The company has done jobs as small as installing a mail box to stringing 14 miles of barbed wire fence along Lake Mary Road. Buffalo has completed jobs all over the Flagstaff and Sedona area and even gone as far as Shiprock and Gallup, N.M.

One of the hardest projects was near Gallup, Kevin Craigie said. The company was hired to fence off an old ammunition testing ground by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. There were areas where employees had to lug in supplies by hand because there was no way to access the site by truck.

The project also involved anchoring the fence into rocky hillsides.

Pam Craigie said, This is all we do. We know what were doing and we do it well.

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Business: Good fences make good business at Buffalo