The powder coater told me this afternoon that he is going to do one post and three rails, we've picked three different patterns for the rails so we can mix them up and make it look more natural. We've also picked two different patterns for the post but the difference is more subtle. He wants to have us do an approval on that before he does everything else. Makes sense/cents to me. That will probably happen next week.
I have the locates being done this week. Tomorrow I get with the water company crew, they know me and I'm sure they are going to be curious as cats in a hen house about what I am up to now.
I have a couple of hundred feet of 4' chainlink fence to remove and then get ready for the posts when the powder coater has them ready for us.
Then there's the gate. This is getting to be fun.
Think about this. I'm going to roll a piece of 11 gauge 2 3/8" black pipe into an eight foot radius arc, more or less, you've seen the shop, guesstimation rules. This will be the handle of the basket that makes the gate. I have some 3 1/2 inch fourteen gauge round tubing, four inch round tubing, and 4 5/8" round tubing. I will use those in combination to simulate woven wood over the 2 3/8" arc. Keep in mind, each piece has to be individually galvanized, powder coated, and wood grained. The ends of the gate will be made similarly. The basket weave in the middle will be solid and easy compared to the handle.
I think the funnest thing about this is making it where it can be disassembled for coating and then reassembled for use.
Some of the old timers will remember a bridge we all made back in the day. Well, in the middle of this fence line is a big creek. We agreed it wasn't to be considered part of the job. Then, well, I stopped and looked at it a little too closely. I then suggested to the homeowner that we could put a fence across the creek but we wouldn't make it look like it was going over a bridge, but a cave. Would that be cool or what?
