Now that I had the frame of the gate attached to the hinges it was time to move on to adding in the cross bars to the gate. These were for support and also for when you drive over the gate the four-wheeler would be putting weight onto the gate so it wouldn't swing back up when you were driving over top. We needed five bars to be evenly spaced throughout the gate so there was support the whole way down. We already had the bars cut to length and had it drawn up that they were going to be 8 inches apart from one another. Before we put them on we crimped the ends of each pipe so they were more flat instead of round, this way they would be much easier to weld without such big gaps to fill. We measured the distances and made marks so we knew exactly where each bar had to go. Once this was done I tacked each bar on just enough to hold, and once they were all attached I went back and welded them solid so they wouldn't be going anywhere. We also had gussets cut out which are triangle shaped pieces of iron which you add to the frame to support it. Once I was done with the gate I welded on the four, 8x8 gussets to each each side of the frame.
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