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Where should the front entrance gate go?

Started by Sedgehammer, September 18, 2020, 09:07:44 AM

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Sedgehammer

Having a hard time decided where to put the new gate. It'll be like the one we put out back (bottom pic), but will have each post wrapped in brick about 8' up. Gate will be metal framed and covered with wood.
Posts will set 6' deep on cement pier with crete around them. Since wrapping with a block/brick column, do I need to brace the posts at all? The columns will be topped with metal welded to the posts for a rain cap on an angle. 
Width straight across is about 33'.
height is 14'under the top pipe
The orange solid is where a privacy wood fence will go. 7'
The dotted orange wood be where the wood fence will go if we place the gate closer to the road.
The orange box is where trash cans go.
Either placement will have a 3' wooden walk through entrance gate. If the blue placement, it wood go on the short leg.
I personally like the green placement, but just wanting to see what ya'l are thinkin.
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doc henderson

It is good to have room for someone with a trailer pulling in to have room off the road.  esp. if the gate is closed.  will you have a code box or intercom?  Will they affect going through and turning with a longer trailer like a 30+ foot gooseneck.  The new house of which you speak, will it impact the location?  more questions (things to consider) than answers.  will the gate swing (I assume) or roll side to side.
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Sedgehammer

Quote from: doc henderson on September 18, 2020, 09:14:39 AM
It is good to have room for someone with a trailer pulling in to have room off the road.  esp. if the gate is closed/  will you have a code box or intercom?  Will nay affect going through and turning with a longer trailer like a 30+ foo gooseneck.  The new house of which you speak, will it impact the location?  more questions (things to consider) than answers.  will the gate swing (I assume) or roll side to side.
Yes, more is better when pulling in, but we're talking about 8' difference blue vs yellow. that is part of why i liked green
 
The current shop is shown at the bottom, it wood get remolded and added on for the house all away from the entrance
The new shop will be at the top of the pic. The south end of it will be about half way through the dump trailer hooked on to the pickup
Gate will swing in. 2 gates
Can fully pull in 150' past where the millings end and where the dirt starts at the bottom left. That is all millings now. This should allow one to pull in a long 5th wheel camper or a long RV and then back in to the open bay which wood be upper right
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