Chain Link Fence
Chain Link Fence
Chain Link Fence and Gate Sets for Yards and Compounds
The Gate Carries Its Own Load
A gate leaf is a welded frame with fabric stretched inside it. The frame, not the fabric, carries the leaf's weight and the force of it being pushed open, which is why a gate is specified separately from the run it closes.
Gate Posts Are Not Line Posts
A line post holds fabric against wind. A gate post holds a moving leaf, its hinges and a shock load every time the gate is used.
Using the last line post as a gate post puts that shock into the fabric run. The fabric nearest the post distorts first, then the post leans, and the gate stops latching before anything looks broken.
Gate posts are set in their own footing, sized for the leaf, with the hinge centres checked before the concrete sets.
Gate frames, hinges and latches are quoted against the leaf they carry, so the gate and its hardware arrive together.
Leaf Width Decides the Hardware
A single leaf up to about 1.2 m wide is light enough for standard hinges. Beyond that the leaf needs a heavier frame, larger hinges and usually a wheel or a stay.
Single leaf for pedestrian and small vehicle access
Double leaf for driveways, with a drop bolt at the meeting point
Heavier frame section as leaf width grows
Hinges and latch matched to the leaf, not to the fence height
Fabric, Rails and Bracing
The gate is covered with the same fabric and edge treatment as the run, so the finished boundary reads as one installation rather than a fence with a gate bolted on.
Where a gate leaf is wider than about 1.5 m, the frame is braced across a corner; an unbraced leaf of that width will drop on the latch side within a season.
Heights and Access
Gate height is set by the fence height, and the opening width by what has to pass through it. A 3.0 m opening is a vehicle gate; a 1.0 m opening is a pedestrian gate and should have its own leaf rather than sharing one wide gate.
Where both are needed on the same boundary, two openings in one run cost less than one wide leaf used for both purposes.
What to Send
Send the opening width and height, single or double leaf, the fabric aperture and finish, the post section, the hanging side, and the destination port.
Supply only outside China; installation is by the client's contractor against our setting-out drawings.
