Gate is Installed on River Front Property!

Here is the final product! It's been powder coated and installed. Now all the customer needs to do is put the lock box on it. They are searching for the best one they can find.

Below is a close up of the bottom left hand side of the gate. The customer asked for a hole specifically for the dog to squeeze through. This is the perfect size for that dog!! :)

Detail, detail, detail! The welds turned out so beautifully that there was no need to grind any of them down. That is not common. :)

A view from the inside looking out! Amazing!

GATE!!!

The material came in, and Danny began working on this gate yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. He worked straight through until 5:00 a.m., and went back to working on it at 10:00 a.m. Finally, around 6:00 p.m. today, it was complete, and passed the "dry fit" test!!!! Talk about wanting to please the customer!! :) This was amazing turn around time!

Here is the gate before taking it out of the shop... WOW. Danny had to climb up and down off of this table to weld several places. It looks beautiful.
The hole that the gate will fill:
Here is the frame of the gate. This gate is very unique. It's not Danny's design, but it's what the customer picked out. There is a door that gets placed inside the frame. It's not your typical gate.

Here is the door I was talking about...
Here is the entire piece. Frame and door, all crafted by Danny within a 24 hour time frame.

This particular customer is taking care of the powder coating and installation, so when that is complete I will post a picture of the final product.

400 ft of River Rail

Danny's most recent project was building 400 ft. of handrail for a house on the Barren River. The customer did not want the railing made out of 1" tubing, rather 1 1/2" x 1/4" flat bar. Because of the many curves in the rail, this was complicated! If it were made out of tubing, it would have been easier to bend (using a tubing bender). Instead, Danny had to rig up a way to bend the flat bar. He didn't let this keep him from accomplishing the job just the way the customer wanted. Danny welded pieces of metal onto his welding table that helped him heat up and bend the flat bar to the exact measurements that were laid out for him.

Fabricating 9' of railing at a time (4 railings a week), he was able to finish the job in about 3 1/2 months. This fit very well into the customer's time frame! Here are some pictures:

The customer picked this simple design to best suit their needs.

Below are pictures of the stairs leading down into the backyard from the drive. As of January, the customer is still deciding on what kind of design they want for this particular rail. I thought I should upload the before pictures so we can see how much more beautiful the stairs are after the rail is completed.

**note that some pictures were taken and added after this blog's original date, due to a wait on powder coating and other details.