Chain link rolling gates/swining gates

[Catadj78]

Does anyone here have one? Made one?

I currently have a 2 5' gates in the backyard as well as the lot behind the house but I need a bigger opening due to the angle of backing in from the road to where my shop is being built. I have another couple of weeks before materials get here to start building but I doubt the truck bringing the materials can get into my yard with my current setup.

I was thinking of building one 16' wide with a wheel on the bottom and rollers on tracks but I was also wanting to put an automatic opener in the future so a swinging gate would be better with the opener I think.

So I was looking at the swinging gates from Tractor Supply
http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/galvanized-mesh-gate-16-ft
I just dont think it would match the chain link fencing I have now very well.


Anyone here have the same issue on gate opening size? What did you do to get what you need?

thanks a lot!

 

[evildky]

I've seen side roller gates with remote opened, actually looked like a garage door opener on it's side. seems the swinging power gates tend to be more problematic fomr my observations.

 

[PugetDude]

I've only seen swining gates at a pork processing plant.
Carry on.

 

[AirJunky]

I didn't build either of these, and neither have an opener on them...... but I have a 10' wide x 6' tall swinging gate in front of my RV parking space. It's a galvanized steel frame with cedar fencing on it. The post where the hinge is at is about 8" in diameter & has to be 8' or 10' deep in the ground (my lot is glacial till or sand). It's tough to handle in any kind of breeze. And a strong wind has actually broken the latch once. I have a small post under the latch that I lower into the ground when it's open to keep it from swinging all over.

Our HOA has a 15' wide x 6' tall rolling gate at the beach/boat ramp. It's got 2 rollers on the fence, plus 2 wheels under the latch. It's galvanized steel & chain link. I don't usually have any problem with it but some of my smaller neighbors have. I've shown up & the rollers are off the rails, which makes it really heavy. But if you open & close it in line with the rails, it has always worked fine for me, so I suspect their yanking it off the rails somehow, or climbing on it or something.

 

[PugetDude]

Does anyone here have one? Made one?

I currently have a 2 5' gates in the backyard as well as the lot behind the house but I need a bigger opening due to the angle of backing in from the road to where my shop is being built. I have another couple of weeks before materials get here to start building but I doubt the truck bringing the materials can get into my yard with my current setup.

I was thinking of building one 16' wide with a wheel on the bottom and rollers on tracks but I was also wanting to put an automatic opener in the future so a swinging gate would be better with the opener I think.

So I was looking at the swinging gates from Tractor Supply
http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/galvanized-mesh-gate-16-ft
I just dont think it would match the chain link fencing I have now very well.


Anyone here have the same issue on gate opening size? What did you do to get what you need?

thanks a lot!

I put up a 16' wide farm gate, with an automatic opener 30+years ago, using a cheap screw-drive garage door opener, mounted it on it's side in a 2x12pressure-treated enclosure with a hinged cover. I extended the opener arm with a long piece of conduit (pounded one end flat and drilled a hole for bolting to the gate end, the other end was just egg-shaped a bit to slip over the curved opener arm and drilled/bolted in place) and attached it to the bottom gate rail about a foot from the hinge with a wrap-around chain-link fence connector clamp. Tested the actuation by shoving the enclosure around and adjusting the attachment point until I got the geometry I liked (95 degree opening), then staked it down with concrete form stakes on the inside corners. It worked perfectly for years; only had to worry about using it in deep snow.

Posts were 8' railroad ties sunk 3' in the ground and concreted.

Using a non-sagging farm gate made this an easy job. Living out in the country where kids weren't trying to ride it like a carnival attraction helped, too.