How to finish off gated entrance with only 2 feet on either side?

[tractorshopper]

While you are thinking about what to do I'd hang something easily visible like a rag from that chain or it might decapitate someone. It nearly happened to me once.

We usually run that type of cable through a stick of 2 or 3" white PVC pipe for visibility.

 

[tractorsanmore]

We use welded wire panels for short places in our fences , you can just staple them to the posts like the field fence , just cut them down to fit ( bolt cutters ) Not sure what lenth they come in .

 

[toy]

While you are thinking about what to do I'd hang something easily visible like a rag from that chain or it might decapitate someone. It nearly happened to me once.

That is good advise, when my son was in high school there was a boy in a nearby community and his name was the same as my son and he was ridding a 4 wheeler and he had went up a road and while he was up there the people that owned the place stretched a wire rope across the road as they normally had done when there was no one on site. Any way when the boy was coming out he ran into the wire and it hung him, he died at the scene.

A lot of my friends thought it was my son and they called to check on us to see if we was alright[ as if you could be at a time like that]. My son was with me when the calls started coming in, even though I knew he was alright it still had a heart wrenching feeling when I would get the calls. If they would have had some kind of marker on that cable something that simple might have saved that boys life. The news that that boy's family got is something I hope I never get.

 

[tommu56]

We usually run that type of cable through a stick of 2 or 3" white PVC pipe for visibility.

Alot of people use the poly gas or fiber optic tube for under ground
it's orange or yellow over the cable they you can drive over it and it dosen't brake.

tom

 

[jimgerken]

Here's my solution. Similar problem, different dimensions. This is kinda like other guys have suggested. I built a panel that sort of replicated the gates I chose. And I stretched woven wire fabric onto it, from the same roll as the fence that is right there next to it. SOMEDAY the panels, the gates, and the steel posts that they hang from will all be the same dark hunter green color. It's been a battle this year.

 

[tlbuser]

This is what I was writing about. Outbound and inbound. The driveway alert is a Miltronics LR Deluxe infrared sensor. Good to over 1000'.

Wow, great curb appeal. Does the wife use it to keep people out or you in?

 

[tlbuser]

Here's my solution. Similar problem, different dimensions. This is kinda like other guys have suggested. I built a panel that sort of replicated the gates I chose. And I stretched woven wire fabric onto it, from the same roll as the fence that is right there next to it. SOMEDAY the panels, the gates, and the steel posts that they hang from will all be the same dark hunter green color. It's been a battle this year.

That looks really nice too, blends in beautifully.

 

[RxRatedZ71]

Why don't you get a couple of large cedar trees and plant one on either side. The branches can grow through either fence and you can trim the "inner branches" back to the trunk. This could be similar to natural columns to "visually anchor" the entryway. Another appealing plant is the Crepe Myrtle tree, which is easily pruned and trainable.

 

[jimmyj]

Why don't you get a couple of large cedar trees and plant one on either side. The branches can grow through either fence and you can trim the "inner branches" back to the trunk. This could be similar to natural columns to "visually anchor" the entryway. Another appealing plant is the Crepe Myrtle tree, which is easily pruned and trainable.

Winner! :thumbsup:

 

[Johndeere3720]

a small masonry wall? Put stone on it (dry stacked, river rock, cultured, natural, etc.) Add a light on top of either one?:thumbsup: