Driveway Pipe Gate

[linus69]

I have been using a chain strung between two trees to secure our access road when we are away from home. I finally got around to making a simple pipe gate to take the chains place. The opening I had to span was aprox 20 feet.
I adapted some old light fixture brackets and ten foot lengths of 3in rigid pipe to do the job. The posts are 4in rigid pipe cemented in 46ins deep and then filled with concrete.













Paul

[GuglioLS]

Hey Paul,

Nice gate making good use of "scrap" materials to boot. Your drive looks like the entrance to a national park, very beautiful and green! I suppose you constructed on site welding with a generator?

Larry

[jeep]

looks good but you need to paint some white strips on it so some dom ass ho don't take it out at nite just makes more work for you to rplace I have to repair my gates all the time they want to turn around there they back into them when they could go to the end of the road, I had to put the gates to stop the school bus from turning around in the yard they left big holes Jeep

[linus69]

Thanks Larry and Jeep, I did the onsite welding with my 40yr old Scott 11HP portable welder, it can do 190amps DC and is also a generator, but it is seriously loud when running. I guess noise concerns were a lot less in the 70`s.
I have to use ear plugs when operating this antique or I can`t hear myself think, the racket is deafening. The start of my 1/5 mile access road comes off the back of what was once a cul-de-sac deadend road.
So there is a 50 foot diameter circle for people to turn around without need of backing up or doing any K turns. There is also a street light that fully illuminates the cul-de-sac at night and also the new cherry red gates.
I`m hopeful that it won`t get hit but I probably should get a reflector or two mounted on those 10ft swinging arms one of these days.

Paul

[studor]

Very nice Paul. How do you lock them? -- Like Jeep, some klingon drove into my gate and I had to replace it -- just used a store bought one though -- I like the look of yours better
regards
Steve

[linus69]

Thanks Steve, I wound up adding a 6in long nipple to one side, that let me put a very large eye bolt on each arm about 6ins in from each end. these eyes face each other and overlap one another when closed.
I then insert a tow hook/hunk of metal, off an old pickup I once had that fills the eyebolts opening completely, it then has a large American brand padlock going through it at the bottom. I`ll have to take a picture of the lock next week,and of course like any gate or fence, it only helps keep the honest people out.

Paul

[linus69]

This is how I lock these pipe gates





Paul