Now that we had the one spring welded on we measured the distance between the top and bottom hooks and welded the two hooks on the other side the same distance apart. Then we attached the spring in the bottom hook once my welds had cooled and we did the same process where I stretched the spring out with the chain and Duane hooked them together once they got close enough. After we got them both attached, we unwired our gate and held our breathe to see if we had enough tension. Once we took the wires off it swung a little bit, but we were both very excited when it stopped swinging and was standing upright! I grabbed the gate and started swinging it down making sure there wasn't too much pressure, and there wasn't. It swung down very nicely and swung right back up when I let go. This marked the end of the main gate building and moved us onto adding the final details. We were one step closer to the end and I am getting very excited.
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