Necessity is the mother of invention.

Which is why the first portable oak round pen was built in a pasture using an old generator and assortment of tools.

How did we end up on the fringes of a suburban Minnesota town, standing in an old pasture? That is a complicated and windy path, like they often are. It involves a master carpenter, electrician, and farmer who raises a journeyman iron worker that continues the farming legacy while raising his own family. It is not much of a surprise that the son of the journeyman iron worker/farmer, and grandson of the master carpenter/electrician/farmer swore off the farming lifestyle and set off for college. He was determined to do anything but what his forefathers had. Which, obviously, means earning a degree in English Literature.