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I need a new farm gate
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Your gate looked like a custom (super expensive) job welded in-house at the base yard of whatever sugar plantation company used to operate the property. Though, it looked like it was built to military specifications so I guess it could have been bought at an auction or something. (enclosing the lock and making the hasp inaccessible to bolt cutters is a technique they use to keep people out of explosives bunkers, sort of beyond the type of security a sugar plantation would normally use, but who knows...) I'm assuming the insurance of the truck driver has to pay for removal of your old gate and installation of the new. Because of the cost you'll have to get estimates (figure a back hoe to dig out the huge concrete bases your gate posts have, plus a truck for removal and disposal). Then custom welding for construction of the new gate, not cheap to re-create those huge, what were they, 5-6" pipes? installation, concrete, etc, plus landscaping to restore the natural beauty of the driveway to pre-collision/construction you are probably looking at a job in the 5 figures (we got quoted $3k for installation of a cheap "stock" residential driveway gate, re-creation and replacement of your impenetrable industrial-strength sugar plantation / military installation gate HAS to be at least 4x that amount).

If you are going for full replacement probably worth it to pay out-of-pocket to upgrade to galvanized materials if the original gate wasn't.

Otherwise, pocket the $10-15k replacement value of your gate from insurance company and have a $3k stock gate put in its place.
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I need a new farm gate - by Rob Tucker - 11-02-2020, 10:16 PM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by eightfingers2.0 - 11-02-2020, 10:54 PM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by Rob Tucker - 11-03-2020, 06:05 AM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by terracore - 11-03-2020, 08:29 PM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by Rob Tucker - 11-03-2020, 08:44 PM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by HI_Someday - 11-06-2020, 03:59 AM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by terracore - 11-06-2020, 06:20 PM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by Carey - 11-14-2020, 10:56 PM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by Rob Tucker - 11-15-2020, 06:58 AM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by Carey - 11-16-2020, 10:41 PM
RE: I need a new farm gate - by leilanidude - 11-17-2020, 05:05 PM

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