Indiana’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Northwest Indiana is dairy country — Jasper County and the counties around it run some of the largest dairy operations in the Midwest, with freestall barns, milking parlors, and silo rows standing on open Kankakee-country ground. A dairy never stops: cows milk on schedule through every storm, and the buildings, the herd, and the parlor equipment run around the clock. We protect the whole dairy under one plan: farmhouse, milking parlor, freestall barns, calf barns, shops, and silos, every building covered.
From De Motte and Rensselaer through Wheatfield, Remington, and the Kankakee River country, dairy farms cover whole sections: freestall barns hundreds of feet long, milking parlors full of stainless steel and electronics, silos in rows, calf barns, commodity sheds, and the farmhouse among them. The ground is flat and the buildings are the skyline. When a storm cell crosses the county, lightning goes to the tallest conductors it can find — silo tops, barn ridgelines, parlor roofs. A strike can ignite hay and bedding in a barn full of cattle, and a strike anywhere on the property can ride the wiring into the parlor’s milk systems, cooling tanks, fans, and feeding equipment — on an operation that cannot pause for a day, let alone a season.
WB Lightning Rods protects Indiana dairies the way we’ve protected farms since 1950: multi-building packages that design the farmhouse, milking parlor, freestall barns, calf barns, shops, and silos into one plan, priced together. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA.
Milking runs on schedule in every storm, and the parlor concentrates the farm’s most sensitive equipment — milk systems, cooling, controls — under one roof. It is a building that cannot afford a strike, and it’s designed into the plan first.
Long freestall barns full of cattle, bedding, fans, and feeding systems are the largest roofs on the farm. A barn strike risks the herd itself — protection is sized to what’s inside, not just the roof above it.
Silos stand as the tallest points on flat dairy ground, beside barns wired into the same service. Terminals and grounding on the silos protect the whole connected farmstead, not just the silo.
One company for the whole dairy — farmhouses, milking parlors, freestall barns, calf barns, pole barns, and shops, anywhere in northwest Indiana dairy country.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Discreet, low-profile systems for the dairy country’s older farmhouses and the region’s homes — clean runs that respect the roofline.
Discreet, low-profile systems for older farmhouses and historic homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, protection you have to look for to see.
Barns, stables, and arenas protected along with the residence — horses, hay, and tack, all covered.
Agricultural buildings, equipment shops, and hay storage — the tallest structures on the farm, and the ones lightning finds first.
We protect all of your buildings — farmhouse, milking parlor, freestall barns, calf barns, and silos — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole property together, so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Mature oaks, maples, and specimen trees protected with their own terminals and grounding, so a shade tree never becomes the strike path to your roof.
Neighbors who install together save together — neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages for your street, road, or lake shore.
Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. Already have a system? We inspect it, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Building new? We design and install protection while the home or barn is going up — cleaner cable runs, nothing retrofitted after the fact.
Every WB system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines using UL-listed materials made in the USA — and designed for dairy country specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, parlor roofs, barn ridgelines, and silo tops — the high points lightning seeks first on northwest Indiana dairies.
Heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, carrying strike energy safely down and away from the structure.
Deep-driven ground rods at every down conductor, sized for Kankakee-country soils — so strike energy disperses safely into the earth.
Metal roofing, gutters, water lines, and electrical services bonded to the protection system, so stray current can’t side-flash between metal parts.
Freestall barns, calf barns, pole barns, commodity sheds, shops, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A dairy is never one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole farm as one design — farmhouse, milking parlor, freestall barns, calf barns, pole buildings, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Parlor equipment, cooling tanks, well pumps, ventilation fans, and feeding systems all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies farm by farm down the road. Neighboring farms that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Indiana statewide, a Jasper County dairy and a family home elsewhere in the state are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — dairy barns, farm buildings, and barns protected by our own crew.
Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your home — fast, accurate, and no obligation. Call 1-800-557-9037.
Our experienced crew installs the system, and every installation is personally supervised by the owner, start to finish.
Lifetime warranty on parts and labor, with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost. Then you watch Indiana storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, milking parlor, freestall barns, calf barns, pole barns, shops, and silos under one plan — we protect all of your buildings, with a lifetime of protection, and pricing the property together costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm packages price multiple buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your farm — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, parlor equipment, and cooling systems — and current can travel along fence lines across a pasture. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the rods on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
No. The crew works building by building around the farm’s routine, and the owner supervises on site — milking, feeding, and the herd’s schedule come first, and work is sequenced so the parlor stays in service.
Yes. When neighboring farms install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup — and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages. It only takes one organizer to get it started.
Yes. Silos are part of the farm design — terminals on the silo tops, grounding at every down conductor, and bonding across the connected farmstead so strike energy can’t side-flash between structures.
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