We are finally getting the pipe fence in the front of our property put in. All of the 4" posts are in for the corners and entrances, now I have to weld out the two inch and build a couple of gates.
This is at the place where we are going to build our house, so my wife will be designing the driveway gate later. At the moment, I need to get my service entrance finished and the gate built.
I have looked quite a bit online, but haven't found any much information on building your own gate, so I'm making one up.
Anybody got any suggestions? I'm hoping the PDF upload worked, if not, there will be another post with the plans in a minute hopefully.
Thanks for the help. MRW
I build gates for a living. I also build lots of other things, but I really like building gates. You can search here on my name and see everything from a big cedar entryway with a pipe gate that looks like wood to a powered slide gate that has wagon wheels, a snake, squirrel, bird, and buckboard in it. There's also a gate with a five hundred pound of stone carved into the shape of the great state of Texas in the middle of it.
I've made a lot of pipe gates. I think a search of "fun with gates" that I put up here back in 2003 has some you might find interesting.
It used to be around here, north Texas, if you saw a pipe gate with staggered vertical supports I made it. Now most of them I see that are made and not bought have the staggered verticals so I guess the idea has caught on.
The first thing on the gate is you want the hinge upright to be the heaviest gauge pipe you have on hand. I recommend schedule forty. The latch upright can be the lightest one you have on hand, I usually use sixteen gauge. The reason for the lightest on the end is you're putting less stress on the hinge post and hinge side of the gate.
I stagger the vertical supports because I've found it creates a truss affect and eliminates sag over time. I've got one tubing gate made this way that's over twenty feet long that's been up since 1992 and still swings straight and true.
Have your wife look at my stuff for ideas. I also recommend a search of the Miller projects forum for a look at a gate some weldor made in California I believe. The gate posts are made to look like palm trees and the gate itself has sea gulls, and waves in it, spectacular.
Awhile back a client wanted something spectacular. I suggested and talked to Ms Benedict about building a gate for them using both of our talents. It was too expensive but man, it would have been a gate.
Check her out.
Rearing Horse
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/111160-other.html It's a long thread but has some gates that you might find interesting.
Good luck and be sure and post pictures. We here on TBN love pictures.
