From the simplest Garden gate to elaborate entrance gates, we make them all.
We can design a gate for you or make one in the style you wish.
More people are moving to the S.W. of Western Australia (the tree changers) and settling on small acreages. We have been asked to make a few of these iron gates now as they give a nice touch to the driveway entrance. This information was sent to me from an old blacksmith in the Shetland islands and as the first gates were made for a couple in Balingup, I've named them the "Balingup Gate".
"In the UK, flat iron gates were made from shoe iron ,some with a T bar top rail ,the shoe iron sizes we used were 1 ins by 3/8 ,1 ins by ½ , 1 1/4 ins by ½, for the farm horses. The gate head was punched and the bars passed through and riveted the rest was riveted up using 3/8 round rod and clinked up both sides and a piece of 1/4 flat plate riveted in the corners nearest the hanging end . They became uneconomic when the welded tube gates were sold by traveling traders selling from their trucks in the late 60s and we gave up making them ,they were made out of wrought iron and never got painted ." (Click here for more photos ) |  Balingup Gate |
This entrance gate was custom made to fit inside an
existing brick archway.The vertical bars consist of two flatbars which are twisted around the middle square bar and then separate into scrolls at each end. Working with hot iron, either on the anvil or with the power hammer is the work I enjoy the most, so you can be assured that all forge work is done in our workshop (ie, We do not import the various elements from China or India and then weld them together.) Price -- approx $2500.00 |
The latchplate and handles were made to the clients design and blend in with the gate.
The bottom of the gate .Note the two 16mm x 8mm flatbars separating into scrolls.
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Gates range in price from $350.00-$700.00 for garden gates.
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