Lina’s Airstream had a home, but the only way to get to it was through a fence. The expert working on said it was going to take a couple of weeks to rebuild the back part of the frame, which turned into 5 months. That gave me plenty of time to ruminate over how the gate would work.
Our neighbor wasn’t happy with any part of the Airstream project, so we wanted minimum impact to the existing look and style. A typical gate wouldn’t work unless it opened out into the street because of the grade to the RV port.
The initial plan involved a super long rolling gate, but our property in that area is not straight at all. It also looked terrible when I started putting up the mockup. Rene came over and suggested that it be split into two, which seemed like a good idea. Then I started asking myself why there needed to be wheels at all if it was split into two different sections.
I finally decided to just build two frames, attach the same style fence material to it, and then build some kind of support to hold each frame in place. I added an 90 degree angle bracket under each corner of the gate and sliding gate latches on the top.
The center post is in the way, so I stole an idea from a friend who had a removable post. I cut the post as low as I could with a sawsall, and then drilled two holes in each side slightly larger than the metal fence frame posts. I stuck the female end in the ground and the male ends in the post along with a couple of latches to hold the post in place.
It’s a pretty slick setup and at least one neighbor asked how we got the Airstream in and out because he didn’t see the gate.
Here’s the fence under normal conditions:
Here it is a minute or so later after being opened:
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