Custom entry gates, ranch infrastructure, and architectural ironwork for properties across East Texas. Built one piece at a time in Crockett, Texas — for owners who want their place to feel like it belongs to the land.
You bought the land for a reason. The view at sundown. The quiet. The chance to build something your kids will want to come back to.
We make the iron that lives on that land — the gate at your front road, the rails on the rise, the trellis over the porch, the brand burned into the steel. Every piece is drawn, cut, and welded in our Crockett, Texas shop. No catalog work. No shortcuts. Just metal that gets stronger and more beautiful the longer it sits in the Texas sun.
The piece your guests see first and your family sees every day. Drive gates, pedestrian gates, ranch headers, monograms, and stone-and-iron pairings designed to fit your land — not a catalog template.
Fencing, corrals, working pens, feeders, hay rings, and equipment trailers built for daily use and decade-long life.
Pavilions, pergolas, arbors, porch railings, stair systems, and steel framing for the spaces where your people gather.
Hand-forged hardware, hinges, brackets, fire pits, light fixtures, signage, and bespoke pieces that turn a property into a homestead. Repair and restoration of inherited ironwork on request.
I grew up watching my granddad weld in the same shop I work out of today. He told me iron remembers everyone who touches it — so make sure it remembers you well.
La France Welding takes work from across East Texas. A lot of our clients are folks moving out from Houston or Dallas, buying that piece of land they've been thinking about for ten years, and figuring out what comes next. We help them put something on it that looks like it's always been there.
Every job starts in person. We come to the property, walk the lines, sketch on the truck hood. Then we build it in the shop — one piece at a time, the slow way, the right way.
Most projects start with a phone call and a site visit. There's no estimating fee, no obligation, and no pressure. Tell us about your property and what you have in mind — we'll come walk it with you and put together a plan that fits the land and the budget.