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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Something tells me that's adding up to be a pretty heavy gate. What are you using for hinges? Hate to see the longhorn state sagging over the years )</font>
The hinges are sealed roller bearing rated for two thousand pound gates. This one is probably twelve hundred or so.
The reason the gate is blocked up on the latch side is three days ago I cut a hole in the back of the hinge post about six feet off the ground. I filled the post up to that point with five thousand psi concrete. I vibrated it down and I'm not taking any chances of fracturing the concrete inside the post.
That's a little insurance in case six inch pipe decides to give a little over time.
If you've ever opened a large walk in freezer door or had reason to operate the door to a walk in safe you have an idea of the action and feel of these hinges and gate.
It's smooth. A half horse operator motor will handle it with ease.
The hinges are sealed roller bearing rated for two thousand pound gates. This one is probably twelve hundred or so.
The reason the gate is blocked up on the latch side is three days ago I cut a hole in the back of the hinge post about six feet off the ground. I filled the post up to that point with five thousand psi concrete. I vibrated it down and I'm not taking any chances of fracturing the concrete inside the post.
That's a little insurance in case six inch pipe decides to give a little over time.
If you've ever opened a large walk in freezer door or had reason to operate the door to a walk in safe you have an idea of the action and feel of these hinges and gate.
It's smooth. A half horse operator motor will handle it with ease.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( We got lucky.
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NO HARVE: being lucky is winning the lottery, that gate is a pure work of an artist AND one hell of an ENGINEER. VERY NICE WORK /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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NO HARVE: being lucky is winning the lottery, that gate is a pure work of an artist AND one hell of an ENGINEER. VERY NICE WORK /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( We got lucky. )</font>
Harve, you don't know how glad I was to see you start off this chapter with a positive end result. I've been thinking about you and transporting that rock all day, and if you had left me hanging until the end to see if it worked or not, I'd have been a mite put out with you.
I can just visualize the guests rolling up to that gate... "George, that's a stone in that gate in the shape of Texas." "Yes, you're right, Mary -- that gate is just -- well, it's incredible!!"
Harve, you don't know how glad I was to see you start off this chapter with a positive end result. I've been thinking about you and transporting that rock all day, and if you had left me hanging until the end to see if it worked or not, I'd have been a mite put out with you.
I can just visualize the guests rolling up to that gate... "George, that's a stone in that gate in the shape of Texas." "Yes, you're right, Mary -- that gate is just -- well, it's incredible!!"
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( NO HARVE: being lucky is winning the lottery, that gate is a pure work of an artist AND one hell of an ENGINEER. VERY NICE WORK /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif )</font>
DITTO!
DITTO!