CHEEP GATE

[ctpres]

Make gates out of cattle panels. Cut to fit width of opening and sandwich hinge end between two treated fence boards. Mount hinges on board and use leftover board pieces for latch mounting. Very light weight and more than adequate for small stock and humans.

 

[Soundguy]

Either our gates in florida are a lil cheaper than yours in texas.. or your cattle panels are cheaper than ours. By the time I bought a cattle panel, and a fence board and 2 gate hinges, plus the hardware to sandwhich the boards, I'd have about 5$ less invested than a cheap tube gate that comes with it's own hinge hardware..plus the time building it..

soundguy

 

[QRTRHRS]

Living in an area that is purported to have the largest number of gate manufacturers in the country, I just drive to one of the close by gate manufacturing businesses and buy direct. They will even custom build for a reasonable cost.

 

[Jimbrown]

I agree Soundguy i can buy the gate for $10 more than a panel and it comes with hinges. I suppose he may be talking about those really cheap $30 panels made from conduit. Those things got so many sharp edges I wouldn't have em if you gave em to me.

 

[Soundguy]

I agree... the sharp ones cause me too many problems..

soundguy

 

[ctpres]

Either our gates in florida are a lil cheaper than yours in texas.. or your cattle panels are cheaper than ours. soundguy

Sorry, I am probably using wrong name. TSC welded wire galv. 16' by about 54" under $20.00. One panel = two man gates about 4' ea. and one tractor gate 8', 6 treated 1x6 fence boards under $12 and hinges from an old house. Three gate for under $40.00 is cheep to me. Will try for pics this weekend. As usual one picture is worth a lot of words.
TSC/ SKU Number: 3502077 Panel; Cattle Type; 16 ft Size

 

[Soundguy]

Well, your panels are cheaper than ours, and your lumber is WAY cheaper than ours!

In my area, I'd be almost breaking even vs the cost of a cheap gate to build one like you did.

soundguy

 

[ctpres]

OK. Pictures tell the story better than I can. Total cost four gates under $50.00.

 

[Soundguy]

Yep.. the prices for those items in your area are almost 20% cheaper than around here.. ( sounds like our gates are a tad cheaper though.. )

soundguy

 

[woodchuckie]

With the public treaspassing and dumping on any visable logging road and me not wanting to have to open gates to ride an atv and tractor, I drilled three holes with a post hole digger at each road and placed three post about three feet high into each hole leaving the middle one loose. A full size car or truck can't get between them and so far I haven't needed to drill holes and put cable and locks on them. I already had the old power poles to cut up and it was play time with my tractor and the borrowed post hole digger.

No Cost.

 

[Jimbrown]

I guess I just don't call those panels. This is a panel.

 

[Soundguy]

Nice panel.. wish we had a supplier of those around here.. but none of the local farm coop's have them.. etc. ( we have smaller ones.. just not those long ones.. etc.. )

soundguy

 

[PineRidge]

When I last went to TSC they had goat and cow panels like you describe, 16' long for less than 17 bucks.

A friend of mine has them staked up in his garden and has used them for years training his tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans and the like to grow up the fence keeping the veggies off the ground.

We added 4 such panels to our garden this season and so far the results have been positive.

Plan on using some for the chicken coop we're now building as well. The panels are pretty versatile.

 

[4720 OWNER]

Only a tractor can destroy them.

Nice fencing for the goats(?). Could not tell if were sheared sheep or goats.

 

[texasjohn]

Yep, I've used lots and lots of those heavy wire panels... I took a metal T post, wired one to each end. Then wired one end to wood post and made wire loops to go over latch post and loop at bottom of latch post to set the T post into.

Result is a pasture closure that is durable, although it can get bent up of stuff hits it... tractor or cattle.

Cost is total about $20 plus construction time.

 

[ctpres]

Only a tractor can destroy them.

Nice fencing for the goats(?). Could not tell if were sheared sheep or goats.

Painted Desert hair sheep. Have wool in winter and shed in spring. Look like a mangey old homeless dog when shedding. Rams are valued by trophy hunters. Meat is better than std. mutton and they resist many problems common to sheep. Our four month old ram already has 6 inch set of horns.

 

[4720 OWNER]

Have worked with Navaho ram, about the same area, kind but he was a real bruiser at about 300# and not too gentle. Can see why you would want that heavy of a fence, yet still affordable.