A STRONG AND NEAT GATE.
wooden gateFig. 192.—A Well-made Gate.
Fig. 192.—A Well-made Gate.
Fig. 192.—A Well-made Gate.
The posts,a,a,figure 192, of oak or other durable wood, are eight inches square, and stand five and one-half feet above the ground. The posts,b,b, three and one third inches thick, four and three-quarter feet long, are mortised to receive the slats,c,c, which are of inch stuff, three inches wide and ten feet four and three-quarter inches long. They are let into posts,b,b, at the distancemarked in the engraving. The slats,d, are three inches wide, and one inch thick, and are placed opposite each other on front and back of the gate as braces;e,e, are simply battens to make a straight surface for the hinges,f,f; all except the upper and lower ones are very short and carried back to the post. The hinges, made by a blacksmith from an old wagon tire, are one and one-half inch wide, three-sixteenth inch thick, and are fastened by light iron bolts through the battens ate, and to the rear post.
The above describes a cheap, light, durable gate, which in over twenty-three years’ use has never sagged, though standing in the thoroughfare of three farms, and also, for years past, used for access to a sawmill. It is made of the best pine. The hinge is an important point. It is not only cheap and easily made, but acts as a brace for the gate at every point, and thus permits the gate to be lightly made. With this hinge sagging is impossible. A gate of this kind will rot down first.