Alright lads, after some advice, I am not a fabricator or welder to trade, I do have my own Bodyshop and worked the floor for many years so I do have skill set that includes mig and spot welding, I haven’t done ally welding.
so my drive at my house currently has two old wooden gates that are knackered the distance they are spanning is approx 2.6 meters.
Having lived with these gates for far to long I want to replace them with a single gate.
I realize this would be quite a long gate, verging on to long for a single gate ? But I really want just one gate due to elevations sliding gate isn’t going to work.
My original plan was to make a steel frame outer frame basically a 2.6 meter rectangle, then to cut down on weight I was going to add aluminum infill spars that can be bought on line in variety of colors and finishes.
Still concerned that the gate would have excessive flex when it is being pushed open or pulled closed ?
Would it still be a very heavy gate ?
Would I be better to have someone fabricate me a full aluminum gate ?
inhabe had a scout about on line but can’t find much apart for big national companies that sell large gates
so my drive at my house currently has two old wooden gates that are knackered the distance they are spanning is approx 2.6 meters.
Having lived with these gates for far to long I want to replace them with a single gate.
I realize this would be quite a long gate, verging on to long for a single gate ? But I really want just one gate due to elevations sliding gate isn’t going to work.
My original plan was to make a steel frame outer frame basically a 2.6 meter rectangle, then to cut down on weight I was going to add aluminum infill spars that can be bought on line in variety of colors and finishes.
Still concerned that the gate would have excessive flex when it is being pushed open or pulled closed ?
Would it still be a very heavy gate ?
Would I be better to have someone fabricate me a full aluminum gate ?
inhabe had a scout about on line but can’t find much apart for big national companies that sell large gates