well there's my sidewalk for the gate I'm gonna build done I'm not much of a
concrete finisher but that's let's see I know 15 14 bags of 80 pound bags of
concrete and I had to dig a whole bunch of dirt out of there because that was a
big hump so uh now I'm gonna have a walk through gate and I can leave my main
gate locked now I'm fixing to start working on the metal driveway gate right
this is what I'm cutting the angles with my handy dandy eighteen volt d walt
wrecking saw I got a metal blade on it and it worked on one I was wondering how
I was going to cut these angles and that come out pretty good so I'm hoping this
blade will last the whole gate cuz I only got that one metal cutting blade
and here's my next angle right here and we are we've got a pretty good eye fix
you to start welding here and I'm gonna practice on this piece here just to make
sure I got my heat and my wire speed right because I don't want to mess up I
only got one shot at this I can't afford to buy any more if I make
a mistake I bought just enough to make my gate and if I screw up well I'm
screwed because I can't afford to buy any more steel this is everything all
right I'm gonna give a little test weld here to set my my heat and my wire speed
correctly and then I'm fixing up weld this gate together and go to cutting
some bars for the middle well I'm glad I tested this this is a little thing
called burn through and that comes from having your heat too high so I want to
back my heat down
traicee I bring the wire speed back a little bit and give that a shot
I'm happy with that I'm about 1/4 inch off of being square but this will work
whenever you're working with heat metal does flex and work and now I'm fixing to
start working on my vertical rails I think I'm gonna put them 10 inches apart
44 and a half long I think there's going to be 17 of them maybe 18 man it's
coming together pretty good I may have this done today then I got to go back to
Home Depot and get some pipe I'm gonna make a hinge at a pipe and metal rod and
I got a piece of angle over there behind that trash can that's gonna be part of
my hinge already I'm gonna start cutting rails now I'm liking it slow going but
boy that's gonna be one solid gate and when I get done I'm gonna put that small
animal wire up against this so my dog can't get through them rails and no
other dogs can get in okay I'm gonna go to cutting some more it's getting there
four more four more to cut Weldon and I'm done I'll tell you what
well it took me about a half a day I thought it'd take me a couple of days
all right I'm done
oh Christ oh I'll let smoke is choking me to death
plus when I was welding the this metal is primed and all that smoke from the
primer was getting in my lungs this is a little 110 lincoln wire welder I'll tell
you what that is a handiest little welder plug it right into your standard
wall socket and you just have to let it rest in between welds you've weld two or
three minutes and let it rest a minute or two because you're asking an awful
lot of a transformer to melt that wire
it served me well weld a lot of stuff I made that trailer there about 16 years
ago made that trailer I made a boat trailer and and I've made
tons of stuff without a little welder right there they sell the wire in one
pound and ten pound I got a ten pounder on there right now I've had the 10
pounder on there forgot a year or so and you don't seem to run out I keep
expecting it to every time I pick it up two will die I expect to have to replace
the spool all right I can't do nothing else till I go to town and uh get the
pipe and rod to make a hinge I may just go ahead and drag this down to the end
of my driveway and set it up in there see how it's going to look I'm not gonna
be able to paint it till I get it hung up and then I'm gonna take my grinder
and sand wills down a little bit grind them down make them look a little nicer
and hit it with some black ol base paint and I still got to make them a little
walk through gate but don't have enough steel oh well