wroughtn_harv
Super Member
This gate is at my local steel supplier around the corner from the shop. They're a part of Eagle Steel.
They wanted a gate but cheap and they'd supply all the materials.
The problem with doing cheap is you don't want it to look cheap. Sorta funny how that works. You can charge the bedevil out of something and it looks cheap and that's sometimes kewl. But cheap looking cheap just don't get it.
Besides that every weldor that's goes through is gonna critique the darn thing. So I decided to just make something a little different, character flaw, first to admit it.
It's all ten gauge two inch (2 3/8) pipe fitted and welded with a five foot horse panel attached to the front with a couple of strands of britches catcher on top for grins. The eagle head was freehanded and I wanted it to appear to be just sitting there without the usual tabs that are like what stencils have. I mean heck, everyone can cut but few make it appear to float. I like being part of the few.
If you're into gates you might note there isn't a truss rod or an angle brace within a block or two. But if you look close you will see the vertical braces are staggered. It works like a grill at a cookout.
I have a thirty eight foot wide slide gate made all out of schedule forty two and three eighths galvanized pipe that's nine foot tall with the rollers at each end.
An old boy had the hardest time trying to figure out just why it didn't sag in the middle without an X or angled brace anywhere. I'm not sure if he's got it yet that just because everyone puts them in their gates that doesn't mean you have to if you're real lucky.
They wanted a gate but cheap and they'd supply all the materials.
The problem with doing cheap is you don't want it to look cheap. Sorta funny how that works. You can charge the bedevil out of something and it looks cheap and that's sometimes kewl. But cheap looking cheap just don't get it.
Besides that every weldor that's goes through is gonna critique the darn thing. So I decided to just make something a little different, character flaw, first to admit it.
It's all ten gauge two inch (2 3/8) pipe fitted and welded with a five foot horse panel attached to the front with a couple of strands of britches catcher on top for grins. The eagle head was freehanded and I wanted it to appear to be just sitting there without the usual tabs that are like what stencils have. I mean heck, everyone can cut but few make it appear to float. I like being part of the few.
If you're into gates you might note there isn't a truss rod or an angle brace within a block or two. But if you look close you will see the vertical braces are staggered. It works like a grill at a cookout.
I have a thirty eight foot wide slide gate made all out of schedule forty two and three eighths galvanized pipe that's nine foot tall with the rollers at each end.
An old boy had the hardest time trying to figure out just why it didn't sag in the middle without an X or angled brace anywhere. I'm not sure if he's got it yet that just because everyone puts them in their gates that doesn't mean you have to if you're real lucky.