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..because it just looks great. Good news!
Bad news, it must be 200kg, at least. My friend and I are vaguely mostly athletic ish and we can merely shuffle it about, slowly. Getting it out the van was a sight to behold.
It's 9 foot wide and 6 foot high, which is nice. I think it would have been a pair because that seems a bit narrow for a vehicle gate, vehicles possibly not being invented when gate was made notwithstanding.
Anyway, onto the good stuff, I intend to rebuild the brick pillar originally holding a pedestrian timber gate, as I have converted the access to vehicular, (the lamp post move is requested from the council).
I then drank some beer and came up with gate foundations rev.1;
and noted several things:
1. I don't have a rebar bender.
2. When the gate opens (inwards), the underneath foundation must extend backwards also to stop it toppling over..
3. A lot of concrete would be required.
4. There are gas and water services in there somewhere.
5. I can weld..
So after more beer, Rev.2 foundations design were drawn:
Drawn back to front, but the RSJ to the rear will be providing back support when the gate opens into the drive (RHS of lamp post).
Then I bought three lengths of 2200mm RSJ because £15 each:
So..
If I weld it, possibly buttress the joints, douse the thing in bitumen, weld on hinges, sink it in the ground and concrete it level, minus depth for drive surface to come to FFL, and brick around the pillar with my saved original imperial bricks with NHL3.5, does it look like it will work..?
Notes & thoughts:
The thing will be just inside the boundary so no party wall issues I hope.
It's a REALLY heavy gate.
The hinges are peculiar, the top just attaches on the 1" wrought square bar frame which has been rounded (poorly) for about 2" of it's length. The bottom hinge I believe was more of a pin, resting on the ground (some kind of axial bearing I could use maybe? Fixed onto the horizontal RSJ like a pad?).
It actually has a wheel on the non-hinged side presumably for the weight.. (Did I mention it's heavy).
I hope to not use this wheel and design sufficiently stout bearings that the gate is easily moved by hand - phosphor bronze / roller/ball bearings would be nice to design in, there would need to be weather rated of course.
By the same token I would like to use the wheel.. At least a future option, I could have a large steel plate laser cut into a curve and set it into the finished drive floor at a later date for the wheel to ride on.
Hinges I've seen on a similar gate I think on a church near me: (I did not take the gate from said church lol).
Input/thoughts/comments appreciated..
Beers!
Bad news, it must be 200kg, at least. My friend and I are vaguely mostly athletic ish and we can merely shuffle it about, slowly. Getting it out the van was a sight to behold.
It's 9 foot wide and 6 foot high, which is nice. I think it would have been a pair because that seems a bit narrow for a vehicle gate, vehicles possibly not being invented when gate was made notwithstanding.
Anyway, onto the good stuff, I intend to rebuild the brick pillar originally holding a pedestrian timber gate, as I have converted the access to vehicular, (the lamp post move is requested from the council).
I then drank some beer and came up with gate foundations rev.1;
and noted several things:
1. I don't have a rebar bender.
2. When the gate opens (inwards), the underneath foundation must extend backwards also to stop it toppling over..
3. A lot of concrete would be required.
4. There are gas and water services in there somewhere.
5. I can weld..
So after more beer, Rev.2 foundations design were drawn:
Drawn back to front, but the RSJ to the rear will be providing back support when the gate opens into the drive (RHS of lamp post).
Then I bought three lengths of 2200mm RSJ because £15 each:
So..
If I weld it, possibly buttress the joints, douse the thing in bitumen, weld on hinges, sink it in the ground and concrete it level, minus depth for drive surface to come to FFL, and brick around the pillar with my saved original imperial bricks with NHL3.5, does it look like it will work..?
Notes & thoughts:
The thing will be just inside the boundary so no party wall issues I hope.
It's a REALLY heavy gate.
The hinges are peculiar, the top just attaches on the 1" wrought square bar frame which has been rounded (poorly) for about 2" of it's length. The bottom hinge I believe was more of a pin, resting on the ground (some kind of axial bearing I could use maybe? Fixed onto the horizontal RSJ like a pad?).
It actually has a wheel on the non-hinged side presumably for the weight.. (Did I mention it's heavy).
I hope to not use this wheel and design sufficiently stout bearings that the gate is easily moved by hand - phosphor bronze / roller/ball bearings would be nice to design in, there would need to be weather rated of course.
By the same token I would like to use the wheel.. At least a future option, I could have a large steel plate laser cut into a curve and set it into the finished drive floor at a later date for the wheel to ride on.
Hinges I've seen on a similar gate I think on a church near me: (I did not take the gate from said church lol).
Input/thoughts/comments appreciated..
Beers!
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