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Driveway Gates Installation Tips and Ideas

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Welcome to the amazing gate  installation series, installing the amazing driveway gate is easy but even so please use common sense and thinks safety first at all times during installation. The first step is that in the post in concrete you will need a post hole diggers and Digging bar as well as a shovel you will also want to have a trenching shovel and sledgehammer candy. Other tools including level, line level, tape measure and of course a wheel.        Layout the holes across your driveway the proper distance apart, be sure to take in the consideration the angle of the gate in the close position, usually this angle will be perpendicular to the Drive, but sometimes more authority needed. In this case we are installing a 14 foot Gate in so we will dig the hole 14 feet apart from center to center depending on the soil dig a hole to 12 inches in diameter for rocky conditions and 18 inches in diameter for sandy or lose soil, it is a good idea to bail out the bottom and dig a