odd request...Bump Gate design
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odd request...Bump Gate design
ok, this is formy mother, and so that i don't have to open the silly gate anymore....anybody have any design ideas or site/links where i can get info on how to make a bump gate? i told i would do it all myself, but she wants something spiffy even though i could do it....any suggestions?
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try this out. Uses a weight to assist opening and closing:
http://www.powellholman.com/article3.html it's towards the bottom
http://www.powellholman.com/article3.html it's towards the bottom
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yeah, i'll probably do something similar to it. now that i have the borrowed welder working properly, just gotta get mom's ok on it.....and now that i have a bumper i biult to try it out with too 
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Neat site. I wonder if you couldn't do away with the tall post and the cables (or chains) if you used a bearing on the top "hinge"-possibly a truck axle for the whole shebang. The top bearing woud be pressed on a collar that slid up and down (put a grease fitting and seals on it), and the gate top hinge "tube" would then press down over the outer edge of the brearing. I think a motorcycle fork neck tube, with the "axle" post allowing it to slide up and down would also work. Great little concept. I saw a very nice garden gate a local blacksmith made that used the angle cut tube as a self-closer.
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i was thinking of the angle tubes possibly. it is just an aluminum gate, but i need to get out the eventually and look at it. been too busy lately welding thinkgs for my truck 
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Problem with bump gates (assuming they're for live stock control) is, a lot of animals will learn to push it them selves. As mentioned in the link, you could use a cattle guard, but if you do, why would you need the gate? JM2C. Rob
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How about a solar powered gate opener with a remote? Thats what we use on the ranch, along with cattle-guards at the pasture cross-fences so you don't have to have gates.
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well, sadly, the gate is not ona ranch, just the front of our driveway on 5 acres. but mom likes to leaves the horse out so he can graze. i don't think they wanna deal with cattleguard, and a bump gate seemed most economical for our situation. still gotta get out and mess with it. been busy...
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