When I first built the big gate … I bought a 2 ton hoist to operate it.\u00a0 The gate only weighs around 550 #s.\u00a0 However, when the head race is full of water there is a lot of hydraulic pressure on the gate.\u00a0 So, I used the big hoist and an old metal axle I found in the mill.\u00a0 I built the frame with 2 X 8 in. oak and drilled holes for the iron bar to slide into.\u00a0 As you can see in the photo the iron bar (solid) bent.\u00a0 It also cracked the oak frame slightly.\u00a0 Jay Scrivhor designed and built the new piece in the photo.\u00a0 When it warmes up I will install it.\u00a0 It should support the oak and not bend like the metal bar did.<\/p>\n

Thanks Jay<\/p>\n

Mike Roe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first built the big gate … I bought a 2 ton hoist to operate it.\u00a0 The gate only weighs around 550 #s.\u00a0 However, when the head race is full of water there is a lot of hydraulic pressure on the gate.\u00a0 So, I used the big hoist and an old metal axle I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridgeton-mill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}