Making A Sliding Gate

For gates with vertical timber palings or slats fitted to the front the frame should have the top rail lower than the palings or slats otherwise the top rail is at the very top of the gate.

Making a sliding gate.

The existing gates were only a couple of years old and still worked fine you can see the making of them here but because of an uphill driveway they were purpose made with an under gate extension device that had to be raised every time the gates were used. Replace the old double wood swing gate what is manual with automatic cantilever sliding gate. For both practical reasons and convenience. The gate hardware consists of two v wheels with mounting bolts a roller track two guide rollers and a gate stopper.

In this series of posts i will show you how to build a cantilever sliding gate from scratch. A sliding gate can be manual or automatic wood or metal large or small. Diy sliding gate kit includes the sliding gate frame post wheels track and if required a sliding gate motor low voltage kit which can be powered by 12v upto 50 mtrs away. This article describes how to make a simple manually operated wooden sliding gate measuring 4 feet high and 6 feet long.

Height of the gate frame. Time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate. This sliding gate would have been valued at 5000 if a gate company was to build it. Make your own welded sliding driveway gate.