16' Driveway Gate Install | First Project At Our New Place

Hello!

Here is our 16 foot gate install on the new property - the first of many projects!

Follow along as we plan, tackle and create our Forever.

Products and Materials we used:

Post Hole Digger - (Ace Hardware sells a metal Handled Post Hole Digger that is pretty durable)

Breaker Bar/Digging Bar - most hardware store will have one

2 6x6 pressure treated posts - a local lumber yard

12 bags of Quikrete Concrete Mix - Home Depot

M12 12-Volt LED Work Light - Home Depot

16' Utility Gate - Tractor Supply

SpeeCo Gate Hinge Kit - Tractor Supply

Hose Spray Nozzle - Tractor Supply

Razorback Rake - Wilco (don't see it online but Razorback brand is sold everywhere)

Mums and Ornamental Kale - Wilco

[TheTradosaurus]

I would add a wheel to the bottom of the gate.

[acrocha]

Your hinge orientation most importantly keeps someone from picking it up and hauling it away.

[Crusher]

Did she say the post were 6 x 6? Then she said they dug a 3’ hole. Doesn’t this pole looks at least 4’ tall or is it an illusion? Seriously asking because my husband wants to build one

[bugwar]

Nice. You didn't use an earth auger because you wanted the exercise?

[aljames]

Is it just me or is the gate sloping badly?

[thomaslopez]

DIY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂what a DIDN'T DO IT RIGHT😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[eclecticgentleman]

nice video I'm about to install one of these soon

[iamGrowing]

I just did this in Florida. I went deep on the main hinge post with an auger and it literally took about 60 seconds since we have pure sand with no rocks. When I lived in NY it would take me hours.

[-OPPORTUNITYBARN-]

Great video. No more videos? Where'd y'all go? 😢🙏

[MartyMcTube]

Great presentation, more showing and less telling. So many other videos yack too much and don't show. Your text is just enough.

[MrStuntafucco]

Why didn’t you cut down the taller post to match other?

[philgrey]

Great job guys. I’ll be doing the same soon.

[markbyerley]

Why not use a post hole auger? you can rent them for a day

[woodybear]

Nice job, but you should have put the top peg under the top brace.

[jerryallaway]

But how much distance between posts to accompany the gate?

[leelunk]

NO MASK, WOW IRON LUNGS YOU ALL HAVE LOL

[baseballdude]

Beautiful video
You have a pleasant and well paced presentation
And your dad is really handsome

[mountainloversoff-grid]

So I put up an 8-foot fence to keep my neighbor's dogs out of my yard and eating my chickens now they just squeezed under the gate or jump over the gate

[onsiteman]

You never spread your concrete at the top like you did there. You have now created a cone in the wrong direction. You have given frost a place to grab and heave up. You always stop your concrete while still inside the hole thus not creating the frost heave ledge.

[LarryDawson]

Bottom hinge Always to face down. No deciding necessary