Square & Rectangle Tubing

Stronger & Cheaper Than Oil Pipe!

Ever since someone discovered that old oil well pipe would make a pretty good fence and would last longer than wood, people have been using steel to build their fences and corrals.

HERE’S THE DEAL: Square and Rectangle Tubing (S&R) is even better!

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S&R In Action: The GoBob Arena

We donated all the square and rectangle tubing to build the outdoor arena at the Cross Bar Arena of the Happy Acres Cowboy Church in Kiefer, OK. Check it out!

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Save on Labor

This is huge. A corral constructed out of S&R takes half the time. Whether it’s your time or you’re paying a portable welder $135 bucks an hour, that’s a big deal.

Why, you say? AT EVERY PLACE TWO PIECES OF STEEL ARE CONNECTED, WITH PIPE, IT REQUIRES AT LEAST ONE PIECE OF IT TO BE SADDLED. Some people call it coping, I have even heard some people call it “fish mouthed”. Whatever you call it, it takes a lot more time to do it.

Saddling the end of a piece of pipe is SLOW as compared to making a straight cut. It also takes a higher degree of SKILL. Most ranchers can get by if they only have to make straight cuts and straight welds, but not many of them can saddle and weld that saddle.

Both Mike Brown and Butch Lemay, welders on the GOBOB ARENA, said they built that arena in half the normal time it would have taken if they were using pipe. That, ladies and gentlemen, saved the Happy Acres Cowboy Church THOUSANDS to build that arena.

Save on Material

So, you ask, why haven’t people been using S&R all along instead of pipe? Simple – used S&R is not available and new S&R is much more expensive than new pipe. Why is that? Milling S&R is a two-stage rolling process. It has to go through the rolls the first time to make it round (yes, it is pipe before it becomes S&R). Then it goes through a second set of rolls to make is either square or rectangle. And as they say – time is money.

So, Mr. Studebaker, then how is buying S&R from you gonna save me money? Well, it’s like this: REJECT. You see, most of the new pipe used to build corrals is reject pipe. It could be declared reject for a plethora of reasons. To be sold as “prime” material, there are a whole bunch of specifications and standards it must meet, Standards that are not applicable to using it in a fence.

The same is true for S&R. But we can buy reject S&R even cheaper than reject pipe. This is simply because people using the reject pipe has put a huge demand on it. Since no one has realized that they can build a cheaper, stronger fence out of S&R, the mills have had a hard time getting rid of it. It usually gets melted down as scrap! That is, until now.

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Price Comparison

Note: 2 3/8”OD and 2 7/8”OD make up 90% of the posts that are used in livestock fencing.

Regular Pipe: 2 7/8”OD .190 wall Posts 5.44 lb. per ft. Selling Price: $4.19 ft.
S&R: 2 ½”SQ .250 wall Posts 7.11 lb. per ft. Selling Price: $2.49 ft.

Regular Pipe: 2 3/8”OD DeCoil Posts 4.65 lb. per ft. Selling Price: $3.25 ft.
S&R: 2”SQ .250 wall Posts. 5.41 lb. per ft. Selling Price: $1.89 ft.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to ongoing fluctuations in steel costs, prices shown on our website are example prices only and are subject to change without notice. For the most accurate and current pricing, please contact GoBob for a personalized quote.

Even Stronger!

It doesn’t take a structural engineer to tell you that it takes a lot more force to bend a piece of S&R than it does a piece of pipe that has approximately the same amount of steel in it. It’s a fact that a structural shape is stronger than a tubular shape. We have used a structural calculator to prepare some charts comparing the difference between the strength of some of the most common sizes of pipe used in fencing to S&R of comparable weight.