As a said last post the main part of my gate has to swing down, so where the gate meets the frame it is connected through a hinge like mechanism. We used just a regular piece of pipe for each hinge that was about eight inches long and welded them to the bottom part of the frame so that we could work our way up. Next we got pipe that was just one size smaller so that it slid in and out of our hinges on the frame with little resistance. We had to make sure it worked smoothly because if it caught while rotating that would be a problem in the future. Once we got the right sizes we started on the bottom of the gate working ourselves up. We started making the piece of the gate that was going to connect to the frame allowing it to swing up and down. This was tricky because all our measurements here had to be exact so that everything fit together just perfectly. This hinge part of the gate is definitely the most tricky and caused the most problems, but it was good that we had it all drawn out so that we knew exactly what went where and what sizes we would need.
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