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My farm gate was basically destroyed Sunday. Truck got totaled running into it.
I am looking for recommendations for a company or individual to remove the old gate (which was heavy duty) and install a new one.
Any input would be appreciated.
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Rob
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If that gate could destroy a truck, maybe some of the metal is worth saving unless it got wrapped around the truck? Is it old and rusted out?
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The metal is solid but the whole thing got tweaked in a way that now needs replacement.
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11-03-2020, 08:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2020, 08:34 PM by terracore.)
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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Yeah, it is an industrial grade gate. I'm guessing at least $10k to replace it. Working on getting some bids now. I expect this to be a 2month affair with insurance company involved. Pain in the butt. I don't particularly need the money so I want to replace at the same standard.
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Terracore's description makes me picture some Mad Max fabrication. Mother of All Gates. Weird request but I would like to see a picture of this behemoth.
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11-06-2020, 06:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-06-2020, 06:28 PM by terracore.)
My question, is how did a truck get totaled running into it being perpendicular to the road? That is more than a "hold my beer" moment.
When we had a property up in Fern Forest that got robbed, they used bolt cutters to get rid of the lock on the gate. Our neighbors, taking the advice of a locksmith, secured their gate with a bicycle lock. The thieves got in by ramming their (stolen I assume) truck into the gate hard enough that it uprooted the concrete on one side. It demonstrated that what is underground is just as important as the part you can see. It also demonstrated the strength of a bike lock.
We had an industrial strength cargo shipping container lock similar to the one I'll paste below on the shipping container we had on the property (Ours wasn't a combination lock but had a round barrel lock that took one of those round vending machine type keys that are nearly impossible to pick). They removed it by using bolt cutters to snip the four corners where the steel is against the container posts, it weakened it just enough they were able to use chains or tow straps hooked to a 4WD to bend the flat steel plate at the weakened corners just enough to get the lock off.
The irony was that the container had recently been emptied, the most expensive loss was lock they destroyed.
https://www.amazon.com/Equipment-HDCDL-C-Steel-Heavy-Combination/dp/B005CIGWD4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=cargo+shipping+container+lock&sr=8-4&linkCode=ll1&tag=pw016-20&linkId=3a6dd431767f70c93e45f7289af29dae&language=en_US
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11-14-2020, 10:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2020, 10:57 PM by Carey.)
This may be too late, Rob, but we had Angel Tyson weld our square tube aluminum gates after our late dog thought pulling apart our old chain link gates was a fun diversion, They still look spectacular, 11 years later.. & would recommend his welding skills
You may also just want to check the contact board at Hilo SheetMetal & Mechanical Inc for current recommendations :
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Mahalo Carey,
Any chance you could send me Tyson's contact info?
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1. I gave the wrong recommendation for contact on Hilo it is Hilo STEEL WORKS
Hilo Steel Works 240 Maka'ala... (kitty-corner from the Ford dealer) 935-9289 (
2. We may not have the contact anymore, so I am doing a PW Search to see if I can find it,
So far, each of these threads have OTHER welders recommended!
https://punaweb.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=15872&page=2&highlight=weld
https://punaweb.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=6955&highlight=weld
