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Labour Saving and General Guntering

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  • #2312
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    How's your spot welding?


    http://gipsy.ninja/fully-functioning-3d-printed-stainless-steel-bike/


  • #2313
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Something very satisfying about a well hung gate. Awkward one because there was a solid sheet of rock under the hanging post and those gates are awful heavy so had to be hilti bolted down to the rock. Fine looking job now after building up the wall! 6D858FBB-B0CA-42D8-B577-7B5E25D5B478_zpszjwlejkg.jpg


  • #2314
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,994 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Would a BigM mower have a bit of bother turning into that?

    Lovely job, nice to see the older style flat and twist steel gate instead of the usual tubular steel ones we see everywhere. Was it much more expensive? Any particular reason for using it?


  • #2315
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Odelay wrote: »
    Would a BigM mower have a bit of bother turning into that?

    Lovely job, nice to see the older style flat and twist steel gate instead of the usual tubular steel ones we see everywhere. Was it much more expensive? Any particular reason for using it?
    Be no big m going in there :). They are 50% funded through the burren scheme if you want to put them up and work out about the same price as a normal gate. Put that up for another fella but put up a couple myself a few years back and 10ft gate with hanging and closing pillars was €230 I think. If you hang it wrong they will make you do it again!


  • #2316
    rushvalley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Be no big m going in there :). They are 50% funded through the burren scheme if you want to put them up and work out about the same price as a normal gate. Put that up for another fella but put up a couple myself a few years back and 10ft gate with hanging and closing pillars was €230 I think. If you hang it wrong they will make you do it again!

    Where can the gates be bought?


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  • #2317
    SCOL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 449 ✭✭SCOL


    apart from the twist ( which can be done with a bit of heat ) they look handy to make.


  • #2318
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    rushvalley wrote: »
    Where can the gates be bought?

    Few different fellas making them. http://burrenlife.com/portfolio-items/traditional-burren-gate-designs/


  • #2319
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Few different fellas making them. http://burrenlife.com/portfolio-items/traditional-burren-gate-designs/

    Are they riveting the mortise and tenon at the end of the cross bars? I see they rivet the middle bars. I bet they're heavy.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #2320
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,385 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    I really like these kind of gates. a bit expensive for a field gate but they look well. You might know this one Limestone Cowboy. Pic taken near Muckinish.


  • #2321
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I really like these kind of gates. a bit expensive for a field gate but they look well. You might know this one Limestone Cowboy. Pic taken near Muckinish.

    Ya, often stacked straw in that shed!


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  • #2322
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Are they riveting the mortise and tenon at the end of the cross bars? I see they rivet the middle bars. I bet they're heavy.

    They are just welded blue even on the cross bars. Only looks like they are riveted.


  • #2323
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    They are just welded blue even on the cross bars. Only looks like they are riveted.

    Ya it would be hard to galvanize between the bars, then they'd rust in between the bars and stain it all, are they dear?

    Some guntering inspiration here.

    http://305insider.com/who-wouldnt-want-a-motorized-coffee-table-built-out-of-a-v12-engine/

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #2324
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Love those gates, hence why we got one made up out of a couple of the old family gates. They weigh a feckin' tonne though!


  • #2325
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Ya it would be hard to galvanize between the bars, then they'd rust in between the bars and stain it all, are they dear?

    Some guntering inspiration here.

    http://305insider.com/who-wouldnt-want-a-motorized-coffee-table-built-out-of-a-v12-engine/
    170 for a 10 foot and 30 each for the pillars. Not sure on the price of a 12ft.


  • #2326
    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    Made this for a neighbour


  • #2327
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,385 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    dohc turbo2 wrote: »
    Made this for a neighbour
    Nice work. Were the pillars there already? They look like cut stone or were they cast?


  • #2328
    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Nice work. Were the pillars there already? They look like cut stone or were they cast?
    no he got them from his land where there was an old railway , lovely pillars they are


  • #2329
    jimmy G M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭jimmy G M


    dohc turbo2 wrote: »
    no he got them from his land where there was an old railway , lovely pillars they are

    Lovely job, fair play, those pillars look like granite, they would be worth a bit. I hope there's another gate for that Same in the background to get out. :D


  • #2330
    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    jimmy G M wrote: »
    Lovely job, fair play, those pillars look like granite, they would be worth a bit. I hope there's another gate for that Same in the background to get out. :D
    😂😂 ya that's just his entrance between house and farm , it's a beast of a same alright , 190 iron horn , yep there granite posts , I'd say very hard to get now


  • #2331
    SCOL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 449 ✭✭SCOL


    That's a nice gate, did you bend the steel yourself it so how did you do it ? also the uprights on the bottom of the gate did you buy them with that design or make them ?


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  • #2332
    croot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 571 ✭✭✭croot


    dohc turbo2 wrote: »
    Made this for a neighbour

    I think yourself and limestone don't qualify for the guntering thread with that work. Thats not guntering, its brilliant workmanship.

    This is guntering. Calves getting to big to go through the creep gate needs a baler twine type solution....


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  • #2333
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Kovu wrote: »
    Love those gates, hence why we got one made up out of a couple of the old family gates. They weigh a feckin' tonne though!

    Is it just me or do other people think the Galvanize ruins the traditional look of them?


  • #2334
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Is it just me or do other people think the Galvanize ruins the traditional look of them?

    there's not many jobs worse than painting gates


  • #2335
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Is it just me or do other people think the Galvanize ruins the traditional look of them?

    The old ones were made of wrought iron, it doesn't rust like modern mild steel does. That's why they have to be galvanized, it's either that or paint the modern steel. It will be interesting to see how long they last.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #2336
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    ganmo wrote: »
    there's not many jobs worse than painting gates

    You haven't picked enough stones


  • #2337
    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    SCOL wrote: »
    That's a nice gate, did you bend the steel yourself it so how did you do it ? also the uprights on the bottom of the gate did you buy them with that design or make them ?

    Ya I made everything , I rolled the flat , and the uprights I rounded the top with 4 inch grinder , the notches on the sides I offset the punch machine just to take a bit out of it ,


  • #2338
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Is it just me or do other people think the Galvanize ruins the traditional look of them?

    Sorta agree. Ours is wrought iron and will probably still be here when I'm gone!


  • #2339
    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 848 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    Kovu wrote: »
    Sorta agree. Ours is wrought iron and will probably still be here when I'm gone!
    U can still get it , pretty expensive though , the college in Tralee got them made that way , gates cost 19k and after a year they painted them


  • #2340
    9935452
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    You haven't picked enough stones
    Picking spuds and the bog come to mind too. Covering silage pits too when you are working for a contractor. One is grand, one a day can be torture


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  • #2341
    delaney001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭delaney001


    dohc turbo2 wrote: »
    Ya I made everything , I rolled the flat , and the uprights I rounded the top with 4 inch grinder , the notches on the sides I offset the punch machine just to take a bit out of it ,

    Is the curve created by just heating and bending around pins?


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