I made a gate.

[Alasdair]

My sister needed a new gate to "keep the dogs in, especially Houdini", she has a couple of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, so I made a gate. It's just pine and painted but may be of interest to someone.








Gate is now finished and installed so will upload a picture of that once I take one.

 

[TrimTheKing]

Very nice mate.

 

[Alasdair]

:text-thankyouyellow:

 

[Malc2098]

Nice.

 

[novocaine]

Works for me. Nice job.

I did the gate for the side our house from buts i had about. At the time a chippy was here finishing up the extension so i asked jokingly half lap or mortise and tenon? The answer i got was "butt joints and screws" which is why I'm happy with the roof he did but wouldnt let him do any of the finishing work.

Got to say though, the hip roof he did is perfect, so horses for courses and all that.

 

[Alasdair]

Gate hung in place

 

[Malc2098]

Proper job!

 

[Mike G]

:eusa-clap: That's nice. I like the proper joints, and the stopped chamfers. Personally, I'm not keen on your hinges and would actually have preferred butts on a nice gate like this.

I've got a similar gate to make shortly, but in oak. It too will have a curved top, those vertical spars (is that what they're called?), and a boarded panel below. The couple of minor differences I have in mind include flying the boarding past the lower (thinner) stile, and either having through mortices (but not tenons) for the vertical spars, or drain holes drilled into them from the underside of their stile.

 

[AndyP]

that should keep the escapee in.

When I inspected my old rotten gate I released that the top of the bottom rail was a water trap. I made sure that surface sloped out so that water could not collect. I also made sure the bottom rail rail extended beyond the posts as the post's end grain under the gate was another area for water ingress.
I also did the same the same with the top rail but I understand that aesthetically this is not to everyone's taste.

 

[Alasdair]

I had looked for crook and band hinges but didn't have any so made use of what I had. I did consider butt hinges but always feel the clearance needed for something like a gate and the gate post (wood movement on both) that the butt wouldn't work as well, also they were what I had, I think it's now called upcycling :lol:

 

[Alasdair]

The design was driven by material in the shop and the design brief of a traditional look. The next gate they want will be a replacement for one I made as a 1st year apprentice in 1984. I'll post a picture shortly.

 

[Alasdair]

This is the gate I need to replace which will be this year hopefully

 

[Trevanion]

I've never seen a gate built like that, quite interesting construction.

 

[Alasdair]

It's built with 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" pitch pine, the tall stile with the brace on it is about 51/2" x 2 1/2". The brace is half lapped and bolted into every rail. All rails and small verticals are stub tenoned together and then all were stopped chamfered. Took 3 of us and car Jack's to lift it into place. The design was based upon old farm gates with one tall stile to carry the diagonal brace and support the weight as the gate itself is almost 13'wide.