Massive Gate Installation
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2018
- Installing gates is a tough job when the gates are 16' long and 8' tall. The other gate over the water drainage area is at another location on this property...we'll discuss this all in detail later.
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Thank you, be safe, and be grateful.
There you go again, Scott. "Not every hill is a hill to die on". Occasionally you have a sweet turn of phrase that just makes me smile.
New slogan for a EC shirt? I'd buy some!
Yeah, me too.
This channel is as much construction as it is life lessons. Love the wisdom.
Something about seeing a grease fitting on a hinge makes me smile
Not here. Nothing but a dust trap that turns grease and dirt into abrasive glue. Then again, assuming the operator is a imbecile is kind of the design starting point in this country - zero maintenance everything.
John Alexander
“Nothing but a dust trap that turns grease and dirt into abrasive glue.”
Because you’d never want to periodically add more grease to it to push out the old.
There are a lot of things I don't understand about the US, and that's one of them. Nobody maintains anything here, and stuff's desinged accordingly.
Manual doors at the entrance to public buildings is another.
...but the concept behind a grease fitting is to aid in maintenance...
I'd rather replace a hinge every 20 years than grease every 6 months. Besides, we hardly ever use automatic swing gates here - too unreliable. We use automatic sliding gates (300kg is a light gate). And we know security - there are millions of automatic gates installed in this crime ridden shithoIe, and there isn't a single grease fitting on any of them.
Can you please show a close-up of Antonio's hinges? I love learning new ideas of welding techniques to use on future projects.
Jimmy Diresta just built doors for his barn shop using the same hinge technique.
Check his site out. It shows how to make those barrel type hinges.
Eric Rusch Sr thank Eric. I'll check it out
They are very common on utility trailer gates.
couldn't find it on his website or youtube? got a link?
Is this what you are looking for? ua-cam.com/video/W7NsrWBV6yU/v-deo.html
After seeing what slab sided gates can do after getting loose in the wind, I've become a very big fan of dead weight fail safe dragger feet. Something that has to be actively lifted off the ground to reduce its friction and can't be locked up out of the way.
In my mind it is better to risk a mechanical failure making a gate harder to open than having a failure risk someone walking up to a free swinging gate in a storm without realizing it is nearly half a ton of steel flopping around in the wind.
Not every hill is the hill to die on! Words of wisdom. That wisdom will take you far in life not just construction. I will use it with my boys one day. Thank for bringing it back to mind.
Pretty open and shut video. To the point right out of the gate. Really latched into my curiosity. Got me into the swing of things.
What's wrong with me!?!
Seriously though, I enjoyed this video. Keep it coming please!
What are the blocks with holes in them low in the perimeter cmu wall for?
John Patrick haaaa. :) Punny
yetanotheaverageguy, drainage.
Grade A execution and application of puns good sir
That saying works for marriage also:) His teaching videos are easy to follow, and his music is great!
Those gates turned out really nice and sturdy. If you place the openers about as far from the hinge as half the length of each door, the arm will be at a 45 degree angle when the gate is closed, which should provide plenty of support for wind loading. This is the type of configuration used on aircraft landing gear. It provides the greatest strength since the pressure is applied directly inline with the opener arm. The only downside is when the opening is actually moving. Another option is a screw-drive cylinder actuator. It will provide strength in any position. They're slower acting but very strong.
I love this channel. You remind me of the older, wiser craftsman who taught me the trade, soft spoken but very stern and knowledgeable. I find comfort in watching you and your work, as it's nothing less then perfection which is something I live by. Thank you for the videos
I really love your energy, your style of presentation, your way of looking at things and your way of being oriented towards people. It makes me happy and relaxed knowing that there are people you like what they do and know what they do. Its a great pleasure to watch your videos even though I do not work in construction.
"Not a hill to die on" or as we often say, "pick your battles". Such good advice. There is certainly a time and place not to back down and not to budge a fraction of an inch. Most of the time though, a little give will result in a lot more take when all is said and done. Your rare "common sense" and experience are a breath of fresh air in today's world my friend. Nice gate, by the way.
"There comes a time when not every hill is the hill to die on" Very wise. That quote speaks volumes and has been recored in my favorite quotes.
Thanks Scott and Nate ... for the hard work your guy put in te videos keep up the good job 👍🏼
Heavy Duty Gates... no doubt about it! Very Nice! I found a use for that decking! So, 15yr ago I had a 30'x40' Quonset steel building special made out of 16ga. On the back side, about 7yrs ago, I made a 12'wd x 30' long lean-to and used that decking for the roof... very tough and still nice and shiny..!!
I was so excited to see a new video uploaded by E.C. today. Now I know how to attempt a big gate! Nice job on the grease zerks btw. Thanks so much for sharing as always. -Will
As a full time fence installer that specializes in custom gates I want to put in my two cents.
The main gate, as far as the operators. Get a MagLock, get 2 of them, top and bottom of the gate. A maglock is an eletro magnetic locking system designed to latch gates to each other. The majority of all operators on the market (and definitely all operators rated for a gate this size) have provisions for maglocks. Don't trust the holding strength of the operator to keep a gate this big shut. The flex of the frame alone will allow the gate to move back and forth at least 2-4 inches on the end. Any slop in the operator mechanism will multiply along the length of the gate, putting way too much stress on the operator. The hinges are a work of art. My biggest complaint against most of the off the shelve hinges is that the tolerances are way too high, there is almost never a scenario where a gate needs that much precision in the hinges. It just causes issues, any misalignment in the hinges will cause the hinges to seize. These hinges are top notch.
The cable pulling the gate to the post. If the purpose of the cable is to take stress off of the top hinge than it's perfect for that application however, If the cable is there to keep the gate from sagging its completely useless after the metal sheathing goes on (so long as the sheathing is fastened down to the angled bracing). The shear strength of the sheathing is far greater than what that cable at that angle can ever achieve. regardless of the reason of the cable, if the pivot point of hinge of the gate differs from the pivot of the cable even slightly the constant loosening and tightening of the cable will work it loose over time and just turn it into an eyesore.
The second gate on the property is really poorly done. Just all around sloppy work. The gate isn't true to the opening, the gap between the bottom of the gate and bottom support rail isn't parallel, indicating that the bottom support rail isn't level. The distance between the pickets is inconsistent, the pickets aren't even across the top. All things that could've been easily done with less work with the help of a simple wooden block as a spacer and a string line across the top to keep the pickets even.
Instead of either measuring the distance between the pickets or eyeballing the distance, you start from the gate and work your way outwards from the gate as your spacing is already set on the gate, lining up the top of the picket with the top of the string and spacing your pickets with the block. Disregard the location of the post when spacing the pickets when they are welded to the face of the frame. You'll notice the consistent spacing between the pickets along the top of the fence a lot sooner than the placement of the post.
I understand that as timelines and budgets push you to complete a project the little details start to matter less when you need to finish a certain phase of a project to be able to start on the next, but to me I think what matters most is that I keep myself to a standard I'm proud of. I don't get enjoyment of doing a job fast or cutting corners. To me the biggest thing at the end of the day is to stand back look at what I've achieved and be proud of what I've done. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wouldn't be proud of that gate, I wouldn't feel comfortable to charge someone for something I'm not proud of.
The temperature changing over the seasons will also cause the cable tension to vary over time.
I made a much smaller gate for a client a few years ago and we opted to use a diagonal cable brace. Looks great but needs adjusting on the turnbuckle a couple of times a year to compensate for seasonal temperature variations.
James Bradwell The only adjustable bracing for gate frames that I use are truss rods. The beauty of a truss rod is that the tension applied by a truss rod is only applied to the frame of the gate. It doesn't put any extra force on the post or the hinges, its hidden out of the way, and because it's built into the structure of the gate frame, it requires alot less maintenance because it's not a moving part. Meaning that the forces applied to it do not deviate with gate usage, and temperature has a minimal effect.
Thanks for your comment. Its really nice to see people dont just blindly follow and like everything on this channel (or wherever), just because at some point that person did something they liked.
The second gate looks really bad. At 7:40 you can see the pickets(?) all sticking up differently - even the short sections above the door are all at different heights. You could at least fix this by cutting them to the same height. But the varying spacing... no way.
Thanks for all the great content you share, I love watching your videos, you remind me a lot of my dad, both are around the same age, built physically similar and passionate about your jobs, thank you for the awesome and down to earth videos
I'd like to know had the old Stanley tape... I haven't seen the original yellow label in a long time. I love to see guys that have been doing a long time using tools they had for a long time. Something comforting about it to me as a fairly young fella. Thanks for the content it always makes for a good evening here in PA when EC posts a new video.
Good to see some welding going on! Once you can join metal together quickly and exactly, there's almost no limit to what you can build.
"Not every hill is a hill to die on..." words to live by right there. Great video as always.
Nice work Antonio . I have placed pillar like granite rocks at my post to prevent gate damage . People who rarely drive a large truck or pull a trailer will damage it. Large rocks get people's attention .
Field fab guys like Antonio are hard to come by, and worth their weight in gold. His featured site work is impeccable, eapecially those hinges!
"The hinges are bulletproof" -- Not buzzword jargon. Literally, fire bullets at it, they will stop them. They're like 2" of steel.
They started to fail, they needed repairs a year later, video available
This is an excellent demonstration and explanation. Thank you. Nice touch at the end too. This is not the hill to die on.
I'm a fence, gate, and rail designer, mostly ornamental, and everything in this video presentation is sound, and spot on! (Although I would have spec'd Block Hinges on the D/S Vehicle Gate!)
You have two options the way I see it from my own 15 years of building gate systems and my father's 40 years of doing the same. Liftmaster csw200ul or Doorking 6550. Good luck on your projects and I hope to see more videos. They look great!
Great instructions and videoing!
We used 'pan decking' under concrete decks on bridges. ....13
Awesome to see it all coming together
Thank you EC. Nice looking gate. Some battle are not worth fighting so true.
I really enjoy all of your videos. Thanks for producing them.
I really like the second gate's appearance. It's a fairly simple design that looks beautiful.
Another feature of ganging work is that when you screw up, you screw up every single piece. Lol. be careful out there
True but you screw em up the same, so it looks like a 'design feature'.
That is called Rustic :)
Someone once told me that when you join a new group, whether it's a new workplace or a community or neighborhood or whatever, that when someone from the group approaches you and invites you out with the rest of them, that turning down the first offer for social engagement is also turning down the 100 more that would follow from it. In fact, no one may ever offer again. And as an introvert I thought "Oh! Excellent! That's much more efficient! I'll make sure to do that from now on!"
Done that before.
Also, if you work hourly it cuts your 'easy-job time' down considerably...
I enjoy welding and seeing fabrication videos involving everything to getting the job done right- mixing concrete, setting post, making hinges, installing the gate and securing it even if it's mig welded.
What's wrong with Mig ?
I like mig welding just do it all the time on thin wall tubing and plate
3:03 We do that exact thing when we install metal roofs on mobile homes, when there is an area long and straight enough for it to be practical: which is pretty much on all mobile homes.
In the end, it doesn't save or cost a notable amount of time, but it makes the installation easier and safer, so it's worth it in our case!
Great example of form following function! That is a HUGE gate. :)
Wow, love it! Thanks for sharing this great content. Makes me want to get a welder and build something!
Repetition is the key to productivity! I like that "ganging work up" saying too!
At 5:30 "Things don't have to be complicated to be good" Amen to that!
I like it! Seems a helluva lot stronger than what I usually see on sites.
That second gate is a better idea than fighting and also it is better for everyone. A win-win in my opinion.
Another nice video! Thanks guys!
Great video Sir ! The storage places I've see here in Ct have the gates that operate like pocket doors in homes. Your gates look like something out of a James Bond Movie ! They are beyond rugged.
The 4 opening Bond notes every time the door opens.... 😂
When I got promoted to assistant super on a condo and single family home tract I got to know the inspectors and let them teach me. It helped that the super was an asshat so they liked walking inspections with me. When I took over on the last two phases they trusted me and my subs enough that if I was in a tight spot and needed a over the phone inspection because of a pour they would do it. I never did that very often and I made sure my subs were ready for inspection the next time through.
Jon Hare, a good working relationship with the inspector is priceless. Folks complaining probably aren’t that easy to get along with, and the inspector has a ton of work lined up daily; give him a hard time and he’ll steamroller you in the future. It’s all about building relationship.
Nice work!
Looks good.
Beautiful wall, hideous gate but pretty functional, just my opinion. Great channel love you guys!
Excellent. Love it. Keep it coming.
Wow cool! I have that same little welder that Antonio is using. Good to know I can still pull off some serious fabrication with it.
Flux core welder?
7:42 Yes. Permits. Not looking forward to that but you're right. Gotta pick your battles.
Thanks for these fantastic videos! Always eager for more!
Great looking metal fabrication!
I LIKE the way you think about gang work in set up!
Man what a gate! Indestructible!
Thanks Scott! Beautiful gates, love the elegantly simple but beefy approach. Could you please provide some details on the side-winder jack that appears at 0:40 and 1:00? Looks like a super helpful piece of equipment that I'd love to either get my hands on or fabricate out of a trailer tongue jack. I'd love to see some close-up views and a description of its features and function, if that's an option. I move a lot of heavy things around without power equipment, and these look like they'd fit the bill for a lot of the work I do. Thanks! :)
Loved the fabrication.
Very easy to understate how difficult it is to get such size/weight bearing posts plumb, and keeping them plum.
if you haven't already decided on your operating mechanism for your operators for the gate... Might i suggest hydraulic rams. i know they cost a pretty penny, but they will consistently work, and require minimal upkeep... check out Powerlift Hydraulic Doors and if you can get ahold of Rick, he might be able to help you out.
Keep up the great vids. Love how you keep finding ways to inspire me to learn, and want to work harder and more efficiently!
Another great video! Shame anyone would ever need a gate like that
"Things don't have to be complicated to be good", such a true statement.
Good Job. Thanks.
"There comes a time when every hill is not a hill to die on". Too true
Great video as always.
Great video
Good video Scott, but I NEED MORE HOUSE VIDEOS!!!! Like really need!
Love the videos! :-) They make my day brighter
Another great video! Sorry I missed you on this trip! I take it you made it home safely !? See you in November God willing!
You're smart for choosing Phoenix, for this project. You would still be being held up with permits if you did this in Tucson!
Good stuff brother
Many times I tell myself " Tom you don't have to load the boats and go to Iwo Jima on this one " in other words pick you fights wisely 😜👍
If I had to guess on the placement of the second gate and why, it would have something to do with fire safety, or something of that nature. Thanks so much for the video.
Can you do a video on post tension slabs. What they are and the whole
Process of constructing them from a-z
Favorite cordless tool brand? I used Makita at a job a few years ago and liked them a lot. I’ve had some use of Milwaukee and Dewalt and like them too (Dewalt less than Makita or Milwaukee). Mostly own Ryobi though for cost effectiveness.
We gang drill all our holes when we put metal roofing on a house. Makes the process way faster and the screws line up perfectly straight
This is really an attractive piece of architecture. Did you paint the raw frame? Nice work fella's
Antonio is the man!
You can hold a T-rex behind that gate! NICE!
Can you put like a rake edge on the top or something to make it look more trimmed out? Like the trim for a rake edge is what I mean.
Not a hill? I've had enough of those myself. I've been fascinated with that ever since our new neighbor had a stealth fence fabricated much the same way as Antonio was doing.
God thank you for opening my eyes to see and to know this work very well.
Great video. I.would.love to see a close up of that hinge tho
Good Job
As a German metalworker and welder, I really like these welds, Antonio did. these gates are enormous, making em giant sails seems a bit unsafe
Awesome video! Are you using 1/4” wall thickness for your hinge posts?
At :40 seconds, is that a homemade crank jacking tool, if so, can we see a "quick feature" video on it, and did you include bearings in the hinges?
Grande Antônio!!!
Scott, this is like watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, but for men. 🇺🇸
Did it again good job 😇
The diagonal brace on the hinge side of the gate stands out in my mind. Typically, (on wood doors) the direction of a "Z" brace meets/places load on the lower hinge. This diagonal brace is opposite. I assume the engineering of these braces work another way being steel?
Did you have to place any concrete footings or concrete beam to span from each footings to keep those heavy gates from sagging
How is the reflection from the sun on the Q DECK THAT YOU PUT ON THE GATES?
"essential craftsman uploaded a video 1 minute ago".... Click
Are you going to remove the decking to paint the gate frame so the paint is continuous over the entire frame?
Hello Mr, Scott , good one again ,
Question for you if i can ask = can you tell me the type of welder used in the field for that job ????
I think i saw lincoln , but what type or model. and flux core or not ???
That will really make a difference for me with your answer
Thanks
Serge ( from Mtl )
good to see the gate is north/south facing otherwise that shiny gate would be blinding the crap out of everyone hahaha
Mint Slice, I don’t like that shiny feature either. Hope they paint is a nice color.
"Not every hill is a hill to die on" as a shirt please. Keep up the amazing channel!
Are the cinder blocks supposed to be different colors/shades?
thanks awesome
Nice gate, but am thinking the square tube frame should have had some primer paint applied to it prior to installing the panels. More than likely will have some running rust on the inside of the gate eventually.
@ 2:15 what bit are you using to drill? Thank you
With the construction focused on this “100 year flood”, how will the storage containers themselves stay dry during the flood?
This is the second video that didnt show up in my feed, and the bell is on...