Gate fell off

[FATHERFORD]

Well I had Friday-Sunday off this weekend and parents wanted to come into town. I had planned on going to FFW, but that fell through when my gate fell off :mad:

My fence is nearly 12 years old, and it's showing major signs of rotting away. It was also installed "unprofessionally" IMO due to it looking like the ocean following the ground.

Hard to tell in this picture, but you can see how the ground is much higher on the left side. Never took a full shot of the fence.
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/3576/before001sz9.jpg
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8885/before002ph7.jpg

Well I decided Friday that it would be a good time to go ahead and put in one 6' gate for future plans of having a 12' opening..

1st trip to home depot:
I went and bought a gate kit from home depot for $45. This is a light metal frame setup that will prevent sagging from standard all wood gates. They weigh MUCH less.
http://images.lowes.com/product/612634/612634000310.jpg

I also bought a 8' 4x4 and quickcrete along with other assorted materials for fence making. Along with some 6' picket fences and 2x4's.

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4277/progress001ic8.jpg
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/4148/progress002bg8.jpg
Put my old man to work.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4425/progress003sw3.jpg

Saturday morning:
Well after taking down the middle post, I realized I had a 9'10 Opening. That's plenty big to get a car or a dove tail trailer back there for parking purposes.

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/6228/progress004ho1.jpg
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9521/progress005ru0.jpg

[FATHERFORD]

2nd trip to home depot:
Went and bought another gate kit, and more 6' fence slats.

Saturday Afternoon:
Well I got back home, and my neighbor came over. He had been saying he wanted to make it level and work in 2x6's at the bottom for years now. So I said, "ok"...

3rd Trip to home depot:
Bought 2x6's, some 8' fence post to cut down for the gate area.

Went to work.

He came out and went "holy shit you are doing it now?" After I explained it was now or never for me because I'm already redoing a good section of my fence. So he went Saturday evening and bought his materials to do his. If we were to have an uneven fence, HOA would be after my ass, so he felt obligated to do it Sunday.

Realized I didn't count the 6' fence slats on the side closest to the house...

Final trip to home depot:
Picked up more 6' slats.....

Finished my section Saturday at 8pm. My neighbor Wes just started digging away.

Sunday Morning:
Went to work on Wes's side. Worked away all day and finished up at 8pm again Sunday... The results.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5459/finished001mp4.jpg
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/3537/finished002wg2.jpg
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/5828/finished003uf2.jpg
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6735/finished004ct4.jpg

[Skidmark]

Looks good! Fence work is rough...

I've decided next time I have to do any type of fence replacement work i'm renting the digging machine ;p