DIY Driveway gate install

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Ive been working on this project off and on for the last year. 

This is what I started with. A couple old gates across a overgrown stone drive.

 

 

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I cleaned up the area with my tractor. I rented a backhoe from Home Depot to dig some footings for the stone columns on each side of the driveway. I dug the holes 5 ft x 5ft and 5ft deep. I put some rebar in for some reinforcement and poured 2ft of concrete in each hole. If I recall it was like 2 to 3 yards of concrete. 

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Started the block work for the colums and scratch coat for the stone veneer

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Stone work starting up

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I custom designed the gate myself. I found a company in Texas online to do the fabrication. I set the steel columns to hold the gate in concrete and had a friend weld the hinges in place. I needed my tractor to lift the 850 lb gate into place

 

[Rusty]

That looks incredible.  Very nicely done.   

[Rutting Buck]

Nice job

 

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Starting to do some landscaping. I have the wife driving the tractor

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Some more landscaping

 

I found this old farm wagon on one of my hunts in the midwest. I took my trailer out there and hauled it back

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Still going. Stone I salvaged from the foundation of an old farmhouse in western Pa

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Being that the driveway is very long, I needed power at the gate to run some LED landscape lighting and a future  gate opener. I installed a solar panel set up to run everything. Still working on figuring out the correct batteries needed to handle the load

[Merkel]

Great work!

[rackemup]

Wow!! That looks Great!!

I especially like the Gate!!

[buckhound]

looks great

[Greybeard]

Nice job!  How about one more pic, panned out to see it all together?