[BaadAssGremlins] Re: Gremlin Garage II update - heavy wood gates...

["Jerry" <gremlingts@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Onree <onree@xxxx> wrote:
>
> I hope that you have better luck than I did with the wood gates. My 
gates
> are seven feet, and are just way to heavy for the posts holding them,
> although they seemed fine at first.
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  DId you use 4x4, or 6x6 ? I had the fencer use 6x6 posts. They're X-
reinforced , and have 3 strap hinges, instead of two peg-type. He only 
made them 6' high, instead of 8' like the rest of the fence ( he 
thought they'd be too heavy, too ). - Jerry -
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 You will probable need at least two
> drawbars on the big gates. If you get any kind of wind, the gate 
latch just
> won't hold.
> Onree

  Yeah, I"ll probably put a big heavy 2x6 locking beam on the gates in 
addition to the little crude wooden lock-latch he made. I have a lock 
on it as well, plus he put 2 eye-bolts thru one side, then used some 
rebar as a holder in a piece of pipe in the groung to  hold it. I 
doubt it'll last long, I'll have to do something more substantial, but 
for now, it'll work. 





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