Wehner Homestead

[greybeard]

Found a disrupted gate last night during chores and had to modify pens to keep everyone where they are supposed to be. Not really sure what happened but that leaning post is broken off just below ground level and a tractor has to be brought back from the last hay field to deal with fixing.

Not my favorite type of gate, because of the way the horizontal tubes go thru oversized holes in the 3 vertical braces and the only places the horizontal tubes are welded to vertical members is on the 2 ends.

You can see daylight between the horizontal tubes and the holes in the vertical members.

I prefer the kind of gates Prefeirt and a couple other manufacturers make, where the horizontal tubes are drilled, and the vertical tubes are then inserted and fully welded at each intersection to the horizontal tubes.
It makes an extremely rigid and strong gate that can take a lot of pressure and stress without giving or bending in either plane.

I do have a gate like your bent up one...in a cross fence and I can hear every time the cows push or rub against it, as the horizontal tubes move within the vertical members. It is the flimsiest gate I have here.

I have another, home built that is made of 3/4" or 1" solid cold roll steel (no hollow tubing) that is also bent in an arc, but it is on a downhill approach and my brother came tearing down the hill on a tractor in 3rd gear and locked the brakes up on gravel...and slid.
Full weight and inertia of the tractor and it's bushog hit the gate and bent it..circa 1966--1967. My dad built it for the most part, but I 1st learned to weld, on that gate.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

@greybeard the gate was here when we bought the property. We will actually be replacing and redesigning that whole corral area in (hopefully) the near future. I never liked the way that the gate was two feet off the ground on the attached end and dragging on the swing end.

We've been looking at Sioux gates. Any opinion on those?

As to how the issue occurred, the jury is still out.

 

[Bruce]

Looks like the exact same design that @greybeard was dissing.

 

[greybeard]

We've been looking at Sioux gates. Any opinion on those?

Not really, as they are not common this far South (I've never seen a Sioux distributor here) but IF they weld the tubes to the vertical Z bars, it would improve my opinion of that type gate and panel.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Not really, as they are not common this far South (I've never seen a Sioux distributor here) but IF they weld the tubes to the vertical Z bars, it would improve my opinion of that type gate and panel.

They do come with a lifetime warranty.

 

[Bruce]

YOUR lifetime, the enclosed animal's lifetime or the gate's lifetime?

 

[greybeard]

Those 40 pc $2.98 3/8 drive socket sets at the Dollar Store also come with a lifetime warranty (limited of course).

Sioux has always had a very good reputation as far as I can tell.
I just don't like a gate to have any 'slack' in the vertical tubes where they meet horizontal tubes. Too easy for them to turn into a parallelogram just from their own hanging weight.
It's like the old stamped steel galvanized gates. Looked great when you put them up and everyone liked them, till the rivets got loose and they started sagging and next thing ya know, it's a "pick up and drag" gate even tho the hinge end is still perfectly straight & plumb as is it's post.
(I still have 1 or 2 of those here..I hate em)

 

[mystang89]

Catching up on everything and just have to say I LOVE that pup. Too cute.

So many ups and downs in the tread to mention any one specific but I hope you are able to relax a bit. In fact, if you want I'll hold on to that pup of yours so you don't have to worry about a thing.

 

[Bruce]

You are very generous @mystang89 !!

 

[Baymule]

Halo is the cutest pup! Her face is so expressive, clearly she is loved and happy. That gate...…. looks like my husband might have been there...… He has an annoying habit of backing up with ALL the windows rolled up so he can't hear me screaming at him to STOP!!