I've been working a bit over at the Alafia River house on various projects for a few weeks. One of the bigger projects was the installation of a front driveway gate. We'd been searching Craig's List for a while and found a large gate in Sarasota that I picked up a month or so back and did the welding earlier in the month. It took a bit of calling, but found a metal supply place that had 6" square tubing to be used as a vertical support as well as online searches for the hinges that could take the weight.
After a lot of digging, concrete mixing, and leveling, we finally got it installed. Then we had to do the digging to install the code panel, egress button, and control box. The last bit was to bring out the generator and drill through 1/4" steel to install the necessary brackets before putting in the opener. After all the work, the gate has been installed with the last of the work involving just burying 800 feet of 12v cable to the nearest electrical outlet to install a transformer for the control unit.
While working on the gate Saturday, for whatever reason a seemingly healthy tree decided to give up the ghost and fell right onto the workshop. Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay had brought in some rains, but there was almost no wind when the tree fell and it wasn't raining at the time, so I'm not sure what caused it. A large hole was punched through the ridge line as well as by the soffit. I had to go up to the roof and as it was raining cut apart enough of the tree so that I could put in a temporary tarp. Now the beginning of my week is spent cutting out the broken roofing, putting in new pieces, and reinstalling new shingles.
I've been working a bit over at the Alafia River house on various projects for a few weeks. One of the bigger projects was the installation of a front driveway gate. We'd been searching Craig's List for a while and found a large gate in Sarasota that I picked up a month or so back and did the welding earlier in the month. It took a bit of calling, but found a metal supply place that had 6" square tubing to be used as a vertical support as well as online searches for the hinges that could take the weight. 
After a lot of digging, concrete mixing, and leveling, we finally got it installed. Then we had to do the digging to install the code panel, egress button, and control box. The last bit was to bring out the generator and drill through 1/4" steel to install the necessary brackets before putting in the opener. After all the work, the gate has been installed with the last of the work involving just burying 800 feet of 12v cable to the nearest electrical outlet to install a transformer for the control unit.
While working on the gate Saturday, for whatever reason a seemingly healthy tree decided to give up the ghost and fell right onto the workshop. Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay had brought in some rains, but there was almost no wind when the tree fell and it wasn't raining at the time, so I'm not sure what caused it. A large hole was punched through the ridge line as well as by the soffit. I had to go up to the roof and as it was raining cut apart enough of the tree so that I could put in a temporary tarp. Now the beginning of my week is spent cutting out the broken roofing, putting in new pieces, and reinstalling new shingles.
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