Farm gates

[ytre]

Have just renewed parts of old farm gates and cut bad pieces out and welded new in. Ive stripped it down to the orange lead.
What undercoat and good paint would you recommend for it?

 

[vdubz]

jotun 87 epoxy

 

[brightspark]

manor coatings high build vinyl excelent stuff lasts for years http://www.shipleypaint.co.uk/applications.php?area=metalGate

 

[blenkie1]

Cheap paint. Used nothing but the cheapest red oxide and top coat why use anything else they are farm gates! Nothing lasts if livestock are near. Just replaced a load of gate posts that have rotted away at the base and they are galvanised.

 

[brightspark]

Cheap paint. Used nothing but the cheapest red oxide and top coat why use anything else they are farm gates! Nothing lasts if livestock are near. Just replaced a load of gate posts that have rotted away at the base and they are galvanised.

pity u hadnt coated them with something decent as well then u get what u pay for all galv lamp posts round our way are coated with blackjack at the base stops dogs p.. ss rotting them

 

[the snooper]

pity u hadnt coated them with something decent as well then

if your gonna go to the trouble of repairing them you may as well try and make them last as long as possible

 

[madkayaker]

Cheap paint. Used nothing but the cheapest red oxide and top coat why use anything else they are farm gates! Nothing lasts if livestock are near. Just replaced a load of gate posts that have rotted away at the base and they are galvanised.

Agree with that animal dump rots everything

 

[ytre]

manor coatings high build vinyl excelent stuff lasts for years http://www.shipleypaint.co.uk/applications.php?area=metalGate

Ive been told this is great stuff, a bit expensive though but I suppose you get what you pay for

 

[BrokenBiker]

I use hammerite on the stuff I weld on the farm.

gates, fences, pig pens, chicken coops, you name it, if ive welded it its coated in hammerite. why? cos the farmer had some and it works. some stuff there I welded over a year ago to replace part of a rotten cow enclosure, had rotted through 90% of the material. replaced and covered in hammerite, still there today doing its job

 

[KemppiFrog]

I use hammerite on the stuff I weld on the farm.

gates, fences, pig pens, chicken coops, you name it, if ive welded it its coated in hammerite. why? cos the farmer had some and it works. some stuff there I welded over a year ago to replace part of a rotten cow enclosure, had rotted through 90% of the material. replaced and covered in hammerite, still there today doing its job

Might be off key, but have they changed the Hammerite mixture in the last few years? I was never a fan (and Which did a test that agreed) but it is even less effective now. Any comments?

 

[BrokenBiker]

ive never found any problem with it. have used it on welded items, underneath the car just before an MOT to disguise minor rust, used it on motorbike frames and never had it come off. except on the farm stuff, it does eventually come off when in the dirty areas

 

[brightspark]

Might be off key, but have they changed the Hammerite mixture in the last few years? I was never a fan (and Which did a test that agreed) but it is even less effective now. Any comments?

the original hammerite was made by finigans and set like concrete it wouldnt mix with any other thinners that they supplied apart from carbon tetrachloride . the so called new formular will mix with celly thinners . it is a good enamel but used under vehicles its not verry good . i mainly use it on machinery because ive got loads real cheap if its anything decent i use etch primer 1st