The gate

[wroughtn_harv]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( One quesiton: What camera? Something for the homeowner to look at who's coming to visit?)</font>

When we're done a visitor will send an alert via internet to the homeowner's tv or office computer. The homeowner will be able to see, converse, and operate the gate from same points.

On another thread I've mentioned a cabinet with all the power and electronics close to the gate but still about three hundred plus feet from the house.

The camera is in a beautiful billet aluminum housing. It's got it's own diode light source. And it needs to be in the overhead. I haven't decided if I want it in the rock or if it'll be a distraction.

What do you think of the pink tips on the star? I did that this morning because I could. Darn, I've heard that somewhere before, must of read it in a book I got for Father's Day. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I got the star up just before the rain came again--still. We're running at a rate to have number two June record for rain this year. At Bird's I'll bet they've already beat the 1928 record.

You gotta luv the mud. Of course it could be worse, it could be muck. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> When we're done a visitor will send an alert via internet to the homeowner's tv or office computer. </font>

Where I come from, you drive up the driveway, walk up to the front door, and ring the doorbell! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

It sure is certainly the nicest looking gate I've ever seen though! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The hole in the bottom is for the camera. It, the hole, is two and half inches across and three inches deep. The camera is two inches in diameter and two and a half inches deep. In the back of the rock a rectangle is cut out for a weathertite electrical box. And there's a five eighths hole between them.

I've still got to color the star rock with the torch so it'll look like the Texas one. I was lucky to get it up before the water came down. The place is a muddy mess.

It was a little bit of a challenge to install it by myself. But Lucy was there and she's so willing and capable. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bird]

Harv, that looks great. Of course, I might tend to be a little leery of driving under a rock that big. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

And you're probably right about the rain. I really needed to mow today, but there were still puddles standing in the yard and then we got another downpour this afternoon.

 

[MossRoad]

Oops... I meant neat STAR, not neat start /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Anywho, the pink tips look great. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif How did you color them?

<font color="blue"> I did that this morning because I could. </font>
That's the best reason to do anything! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I was reading your electrical cabinet thread. Lots of trenching. Those built in illuminators are pretty cool. I'm assuming it's the type that floods the viewing area with infrared light?

 

[polecat]

As always harv!!!!!!!!! Top knoth work...I think i'm gonna have to come down there and help u on a few of those projects!!!!YER JIST HAVIN WAY MUCH FUN ALONE!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[wroughtn_harv]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Anywho, the pink tips look great. How did you color them?)</font>

I used a torch. I know it sounds silly but a cutting torch works great as a paint brush on sandstone.

*one of those factoids I've discovered all on my own* /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Don't ask.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Here's the star after I "Painted" the surrounding surfaces and left the star out of the fun.

 

[Bird]

Two questions, Harv.

1) Does that "painting" method cause sandstone to deteriorate faster than normal?

2) Have you ever stopped at the Golden Tree Materials at 1080 E. Highway 121 in Lewisville? I was in there a couple of days ago to see about some sandy loam. I knew just from passing by that he had an assortment of rocks, but I had no idea what a large assortment he had until I went in looking around. Of course, I suspect you know places that have as much or more, but I hadn't ever noticed a place with that much variety.