While I was at Tahoe, I worked as a volunteer at the Tallac National Historic Site, and I was assigned to fix this double gate into the ‘bone yard’, which is the fenced area that the scrap wood is kept. It was sagging badly and scraped the ground, was wobbly and basically falling apart. It had been repaired last year but it was too far gone to save, so I built a new set of gates. The gate posts were put in new last year and were still strong, I should have swapped them out for 4 X 6’s but decided against it since they seemed so strong.
Here’s another view of the gates.
A close up of the gates, note the 2 X 4 on the left bending from the weight.
This is a shot inside the carpentry shop where I built the new gates. This is the only shot I got of them, had camera problems.
On Edit: The next year (’06), I took some pictures of the gates I finished in ’05.
I tried to arrange the gate structure so I had nice big triangles to support the long swing arm. I used 2″ X 6″ lumber in a couple places to add strength.
Here’s how they look, note there’s no droop at all after hanging for nearly a year.
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