CarterKraft
Red Skull Member
This is another poorly narrated thread where I will share some gate projects I have built for one of my customers.
I'll have to locate the pic of the first one, they aren't where I thought they where...
This is the second one.
30' opening, 36' overall length 12' tall in the center, 10 ish feet at the posts.
3"x3" 11 ga tubing with my custom designed rear mounted guide rollers.
I don't have the equipment to roll this size of tube (40' long .125" wall) so it was farmed out for a great price i thought. Tube and all was $275.
I did a full site plan including concrete footings and elevation that my customer (best friend) promptly ignored.
He poured the driveway sloped but the column tops level and to add insult to injury they crowned the driveway between the columns 1.5" in the center. That made one column footer 9" lower than the other and the entire track for the gate to slide on at this slope.
So the project was sort of fucked before it got going because nothing was going to be perpendicular with out some really goofy roller pedestals or something.
I changed the CAD model several times to compensate and did some visual testing on groups of drunk people at his house.
With the model agreed on I got to building.
The vertical members are tilted 1.2* to compensate and the ends of the arch split between the 9" difference to attempt to blend in.
Edit: I had planned on passing the time at the hospital by making these posts but I can't find any of the pix remotely, I think they are all in my NAS I can't get into from here...
Cue the 🤡 music
Here's some teasers for your hard work.
I'll have to locate the pic of the first one, they aren't where I thought they where...
This is the second one.
30' opening, 36' overall length 12' tall in the center, 10 ish feet at the posts.
3"x3" 11 ga tubing with my custom designed rear mounted guide rollers.
I don't have the equipment to roll this size of tube (40' long .125" wall) so it was farmed out for a great price i thought. Tube and all was $275.
I did a full site plan including concrete footings and elevation that my customer (best friend) promptly ignored.
He poured the driveway sloped but the column tops level and to add insult to injury they crowned the driveway between the columns 1.5" in the center. That made one column footer 9" lower than the other and the entire track for the gate to slide on at this slope.
So the project was sort of fucked before it got going because nothing was going to be perpendicular with out some really goofy roller pedestals or something.
I changed the CAD model several times to compensate and did some visual testing on groups of drunk people at his house.
With the model agreed on I got to building.
The vertical members are tilted 1.2* to compensate and the ends of the arch split between the 9" difference to attempt to blend in.
Edit: I had planned on passing the time at the hospital by making these posts but I can't find any of the pix remotely, I think they are all in my NAS I can't get into from here...
Cue the 🤡 music
Here's some teasers for your hard work.