supermanotorious
Winchmaster 5000
This is something I wanted to share for some time. My dad lives in New River, AZ and has 2 washes that cut through his property. He had a chain link fence built around the property to maintain his 4 or 5 (I lose track) guard dogs because a couple of them will bolt like a bat out of heck if given the opportunity. (He got so tired of chasing them into the desert he literally turned his main gate into a sally port. It's a 2 gate system, with the interior gate closed you drive thru the exterior gate and park in the middle, the exterior gate is closed and then the interior gate opens to allow you to enter the property.)
Anyway back on track, when AZ gets rain the desert washes get flash floods. The floods carry a ton of debris and when it collects in a chain link fence, the fence gets destroyed. My dad came up with an idea for a gate that would allow the water pressure to push the debris thru without damaging the gate. I took the stick welder over to his place and we got to work.
The basic concept includes 2 cinder block foundations which a steel beam spans across them and the swinging gate hangs from this beam. The gate is made from 1/4" flat stock with round steel bars welded thru them for stability. The additional steel beam on top of the cinder blocks is also for increased stability. These gates actually work perfect. As debris from the wash builds up, the water pressure forces the heavy gate to lift and pass the debris thru, once the debris is clear the gate naturally closes itself.
The reason the second gate is a double gate is because there is a gap between the fence and the steel beam that one of the dogs could potentially slip through. He has a nightmare neighbor on that side of the property. When he first moved in there was some dispute to where the property line lay. He hired a surveyor then built his fence 1 foot inside of his own property line. A year or 2 ago, one of the neighbor's smaller dogs was poking around at the gate and one of my dad's dogs killed it. The neighbor does not maintain a fence on his property. The neighbor called the county to complain about my dad's dog, the county came out an fined the neighbor for not securing his own property. So this second gate also keeps my dad's dogs away from the fence line at that spot.
I told him he should share this idea but he's not online very often. Enjoy!
Anyway back on track, when AZ gets rain the desert washes get flash floods. The floods carry a ton of debris and when it collects in a chain link fence, the fence gets destroyed. My dad came up with an idea for a gate that would allow the water pressure to push the debris thru without damaging the gate. I took the stick welder over to his place and we got to work.
The basic concept includes 2 cinder block foundations which a steel beam spans across them and the swinging gate hangs from this beam. The gate is made from 1/4" flat stock with round steel bars welded thru them for stability. The additional steel beam on top of the cinder blocks is also for increased stability. These gates actually work perfect. As debris from the wash builds up, the water pressure forces the heavy gate to lift and pass the debris thru, once the debris is clear the gate naturally closes itself.
The reason the second gate is a double gate is because there is a gap between the fence and the steel beam that one of the dogs could potentially slip through. He has a nightmare neighbor on that side of the property. When he first moved in there was some dispute to where the property line lay. He hired a surveyor then built his fence 1 foot inside of his own property line. A year or 2 ago, one of the neighbor's smaller dogs was poking around at the gate and one of my dad's dogs killed it. The neighbor does not maintain a fence on his property. The neighbor called the county to complain about my dad's dog, the county came out an fined the neighbor for not securing his own property. So this second gate also keeps my dad's dogs away from the fence line at that spot.
I told him he should share this idea but he's not online very often. Enjoy!
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