SOLID WOOD PANEL DRIVE GATE #7

Wood Driveway Security Gates #7 is Base Price + 43%
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Featuring 7″-8″ solid grids
Note: Drive gates #7 is lumber-heavy, requiring a steel frame for overall rough opening widths over 10′. 

Born from the original style designed as a Pedestrian gate style #87, the wood driveway security gates #7 features a dedicated series of interlocking grids with solid, floating panels. Identical on both sides.
*This is not a piece of plywood with strips of wood nailed in place.

WoodRX Mahogany.

Showing the side of the driveway security gates #7 facing the street.

Gate thickness: 2-1/4″
Horizontal / vertical grid dividers at 1-1/2″ thickness.
Insert panels: 3/4″ thickness

SOLID WOOD PANEL DRIVE GATE #7 IN-PROGRESS

Dadoing the intial step to the half-lap joints.

Ben creating the end-cut joints for the typical wood driveway security gates #7.

Dry-fitting the cross-members grids. A rather complicated process, showing the dadoes for the half-laps as well as the rabbets to accept the panel inserts.  The property side of the gate prior to fitting the continuous ‘stops’.

Each panel grid has a drainage hole, as well as troughs to collect the moisture of heavy rains while migrating to the drainage.

Each grid divider of the wood privacy gates #7 is joined to the stiles and rails of the gate frame with full mortise and tenon joinery.

The top and bottom rail assembled prior to the two vertical stiles. The four outer panel insets are set to place, with all the remaining panels placed only after the stiles have been clamped in place. The wood driveway security gates #7 is one of the more labor intensive drive gates.

The top rail fitted and joined to the grid. Showing the stub of the full through-tenon prior to being joined to the vertical stile. The kerfs in the tenon are to accept the eventual wedges, which will separate the tenon to an even tighter fit. The through-tenons are secured in the rails with two locking pins set in through the dado of the rail.

The bottom right showing the thru-tenon, kerfed to accept the locking wedges once fitted to the vertical stiles.

Charles fitting the wedges to the full through-tenon of driveway gate #7.
See Prowell Joint #9

The endless solid insert panels as the signature for the wood driveway security gates #7,  each of them sealed with a lifetime emulsified liquid wax to prevent the potential of checking and unnecessary absorption of moisture.

The final step of Prowell’s Joint #9 set to the front entry gates #7 features a pair of oak dowels bored in from the top, down through the tenons as a final layer of insurance.

Also showing the property side where the insert panels are ‘stopped’. Each piece is glued and clamped in place.

And who among you really cares? Who really gives a hoot?
Well, obviously Charles and Ben do.
In the new era of the past 10 years, there exist more knock-offs of their products scattered across the country than originals.
So for those who prefer such an approach, we want to impress upon you the level of attention that is given to both the original design and construction of our products while presenting your more affordable hired gun with a level of ammunition he/she may, or may not, possess. May, or may not, be willing, or capable, of replicating.