I got my start welding in the Navy, doing plate and pipe welding on SSBN submarines. I gave it up for firefighting after I got out, but I’m still a welder/fitter at heart. Love your videos bro.
I made a corral many years ago from oil field pipe. (Bartlesville, OK) The posts were 2-7/8 tubing and the rails were 2-3/8. Rather than create saddles on the rails, I cut a bunch of one foot 2-7/8 pieces (w/chop saw) in the shop then split them in half by creating saddles. The 2-3/8 rails were flush cut to the approximate length. The 2-3/8 fit inside the 2-7/8 saddle pieces and it made the fitting and welding a lot easier. Saved a lot of measuring and grinding.
I have been a welder for 25+ years even taught at the community college here and I enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the great work and it's nice to see someone who loves what they do and is happy to share their tricks with others!!
Always enjoy watching Austin. If you need to measure inside to inside, buy one of the tape measures with the magnetic tip. You can touch it on the pipe and the magnet is strong enough to pull the slack out, just check the strength of the tape magnet before you buy.
When building pens, I use spring loaded latches installed on the gate in the same manner. You can get by without using the catch on the post side if the pipe is a good diameter say 3 1/2" or 4 1/2". I smash a small piece of pipe into an oval for clearance up and down, cap inside with 1/8" to keep hornets out, recess it in upright, weld around outer portion, and grind flat to the big pipe. Saves money by not buying catch side and leaves it looking super clean. Love your vids, I always learn something useful!
Good morning Austin. I am not sure if your read these comments but I just gota say I love to watch your work. You are very very talented. And you calmly explain what your doing. I am not a welder but always wanted too. My son did take up the craft and he is learning everyday. Anyways I will keep watching.
Gotta say your videos & teaching style is a real pleasure to watch, Austin. And my wife got me your soapstone & brass holder for last Christmas--it's great. Thank you for all you do for all of us!
Let me tell u this , I am a structural welder ,have nothing to do with wut u do but I learn way too much watching u videos , thank u soo much and good bless you
Awesome videos Ross. I’ve currently been working on building pipe fence at our ranch and definitely using this design for man gates throughout the property C’mon!✍🏼
Great work! I’m an amateur and usually only work on my own stuff and love learning other techniques. On those long gates and single strap hinges, I’ve had several of them crack and break welds under the weight and working pressure. I like to add a second strap welded to the side of the tubing part of the hinge and the gate post. Helps add an lot more strength, especially on the longer gates.
So you just cut another collar of pipe and cut it in to and weld that to the other collar. if not you would have to get a bigger sized pipe to go over the other collar. So it's twice as thick
Dad didn't own any jack stands or gate jacks. He had me. So I thought Dakota was your portable gate jacks. Yeah, impact drivers are fast, but you have to be careful. If I use a impact driver, I set the speed low ( low speed = low torque) and have a hand ratchet for the final tightening on anything critical. Came here to see slam latches... Tough to install on gates that were not spaced right for them. You wind up shortening or lengthening and rehanging them.
I’ve been doing some searching for ideas on getting my property fenced up, so glad I found this! My boy can’t reach over the fence to get to current latch. It won’t be as pretty when I hack one together, but that’s slick Then I see you’re an Okie! Even better. We have run some of the same roads no doubt. I used to work for Stillwater Fire ages ago. Looking forward to the rest of the channel!
Someone else may have been mentioned it already but I prefer to put the anchor in the mortar joint. Brick will crack very easily with any type of expansion anchor or a Simpson strong tie threaded anchor. An epoxy anchor can be used in brick or CMU but you have to deal with the nut and exposed end of the threaded rod.
You never fasten a post to a house if it’s in the ground. The ground moves at different rate then the house/foundation. Here in Canada if you do that all the bricks will be destroyed when the frost/thaw happens.
I'm surprised you don't use the green laser tape measures. I use them anytime I need to fabricate fence panels, or anything that needs to sit in-between 2 objects. They are insanely efficient, reliable, and eliminate the need for a 2nd hand for measurements in most cases. They're especially nice on really long runs where a tape will bend/ bow and not give you a dead nuts measurement. Maybe one day you can try them out, the future is here :D
Hey I use 1×1 angle with a piece of 1×1 square stock. Sandwich and bolted with wing nuts. Then attach with a chainlink stretcher. one even pull that way. Pretty much samething you had just thinner to be able ro hook with chainlink stretcher.
One additional method, to put ing brackets on brick is to use the kit we’re you drill a hole and put a plastic socket in to the brick to-accept the screw . I find they don’t crack the brick or cement block because the plastic gives a little and wedges the screw in place.
Great video! I'm curious why you didn't just run the fencing around the outside of the corner post instead of dealing with the hassle of the stretch bar. Is it harder or less secure?
We are based in the UK & would have pre-fabricated all of these sections/panels & sent them away for galvanising (& possibly powder coating) in bolt together/portal format, rather than weld the whole installation on site! What coating is the client going to put on this metal work? those gate hinges seemed tight enough in the video, give them a couple of months of exposure to rain & oxygen & they are going to get even tighter. ive never seen panel work in a residential or commercial way done like this before. very interesting. Cheers, Louis
We made self closing access point gates using angles cuts on pipe similar to what is in the slam gate latch. I’d rather use the epoxy in place bolts with concrete.
Nice work. Love your attention to detail. The slam latches are great for cattle corrals. If you throw the gate hard enough, it will skip past the latch - which can be helpful when working cattle. Curious why you hung the last gate lower than fence height, which essentially makes the entire fence that height.
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Man how far are you from celeste tx I know your in Oklahoma I’ve been wanting some tips on combo welding didn’t know if you’d be willing to do in person teaching
Great video Austin. Something to consider; the slam latch was placed under the horizontal rail of the gate which should be fine; however, the welded wire panel was added to the gate later requiring the person operating the gate to have to reach over the rail/panel to grab the slam latch handle. Placement of the latch above the horizontal pipe member would result in use of the latch to be more user friendly since doesn't have the pipe or panel as an obstacle to reaching the latch handle. Just something to consider for future slam latch installs. Thanks Again, Austin!
I'm doing something very similar on all my gates but I'm using horse panel sections in the gate rather than the welded wire. I remove a rod or two from the panel so the latch can be reached from either side.
Austin building a sliding steal frame with wooden pickets don't want to screw my wooden picket on the steal frame do you think this could work if I use 2x4 across with weld bracket holding the 2x4 then but my picket fence with wooden screws
I enjoy your videos, but with this one, I wish you would've had the camera closer either while welding up the fence and gates or showed the finished work a bit more. I'm a visual learner, and it would have been nice to see what you did a little better. Otherwise I got the jist of how you did tge slam gate latch. Great idea.
I wouldn't tie into the brick like that because usually not a part of the house plus brick is too soft and screws and anchors usually don't hold. Whenever possible screw into the stud.
Hi Austin, I had messaged you on Instagram but I don’t know if you saw it. I am trying to apply for the pipe fence scholarship but the page isn’t working. I was hoping I could figure out what is going wrong so I can apply before the enrollment period is over. Thanks, Bill
Shoot Kayla and email here in this link and she will get you fixed up. Thank you for reaching out here. We apologize about not getting back via Instagram… we are a bit behind over there 🫤 www.arosswelding.school/site/contact
@@arosswelding Hey Austin, I followed your suggestion and submitted a thing on the link you provided me but I never head back from anybody so I was not able to apply for the scholarship. Is there any way I can still apply? Where others able to apply or was everybody not able to?
Have you got a link to the welding helmet/hood you use/recommend? I am going to start welding as an old man, you do use an auto darkening one? How fast must it auto darken?
I got my start welding in the Navy, doing plate and pipe welding on SSBN submarines. I gave it up for firefighting after I got out, but I’m still a welder/fitter at heart. Love your videos bro.
How much did they paid for welding in navy ? did the navy did that themselves or give contract to other outside contractor to do the work ?
77 year welder with 56 years welder/fabricator just enjoy watching you work ! Keep it up .
I think people love working with you. You are relaxed and you keep things under control. Nice work Austin.
Never thought I’d look at fencing as art. Beautiful.
I made a corral many years ago from oil field pipe. (Bartlesville, OK) The posts were 2-7/8 tubing and the rails were 2-3/8. Rather than create saddles on the rails, I cut a bunch of one foot 2-7/8 pieces (w/chop saw) in the shop then split them in half by creating saddles. The 2-3/8 rails were flush cut to the approximate length. The 2-3/8 fit inside the 2-7/8 saddle pieces and it made the fitting and welding a lot easier. Saved a lot of measuring and grinding.
I have been a welder for 25+ years even taught at the community college here and I enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the great work and it's nice to see someone who loves what they do and is happy to share their tricks with others!!
That was pretty cool just needed a little more of a close up picture of the slam gate latch
Great finish on the fencing Austin, you both did a good job and it turned out fantastic. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.
You bet Fred! Thank you for watching!
That’s a good looking fence dude.
Like your jack set up, made one years ago for the department I worked In. I would have primed pipe before installing.
Always enjoy watching Austin. If you need to measure inside to inside, buy one of the tape measures with the magnetic tip. You can touch it on the pipe and the magnet is strong enough to pull the slack out, just check the strength of the tape magnet before you buy.
When building pens, I use spring loaded latches installed on the gate in the same manner. You can get by without using the catch on the post side if the pipe is a good diameter say 3 1/2" or 4 1/2". I smash a small piece of pipe into an oval for clearance up and down, cap inside with 1/8" to keep hornets out, recess it in upright, weld around outer portion, and grind flat to the big pipe. Saves money by not buying catch side and leaves it looking super clean. Love your vids, I always learn something useful!
Be nice if I could see a pic or video of that
I like the lil cap plates
Great skills good to see diligent attention to detail.
Watching from Ross Tasmania
Good morning Austin. I am not sure if your read these comments but I just gota say I love to watch your work. You are very very talented. And you calmly explain what your doing. I am not a welder but always wanted too. My son did take up the craft and he is learning everyday. Anyways I will keep watching.
I appreciate this message. Thank you for sharing it.
You have an awesome teaching style man. Glad you’re doing courses now.
Gotta say your videos & teaching style is a real pleasure to watch, Austin. And my wife got me your soapstone & brass holder for last Christmas--it's great. Thank you for all you do for all of us!
Let me tell u this , I am a structural welder ,have nothing to do with wut u do but I learn way too much watching u videos , thank u soo much and good bless you
Nice looking fence and gates.
Always looking so spiffy with those work shirts👍🏽 I try to do the same. But yours are so crisp
Nice work Austin. One option for bolting the tubing to the masonry would be to drill holes in the brick and epoxy all thread into the holes.
Love your videos 👍 you inspired me to become a welder ❤
Yeah, looks great.
Amazing work
Nice jacks buddy. Yes I did learn something and I’m old school.
Awesome videos Ross. I’ve currently been working on building pipe fence at our ranch and definitely using this design for man gates throughout the property C’mon!✍🏼
Great work! I’m an amateur and usually only work on my own stuff and love learning other techniques. On those long gates and single strap hinges, I’ve had several of them crack and break welds under the weight and working pressure. I like to add a second strap welded to the side of the tubing part of the hinge and the gate post. Helps add an lot more strength, especially on the longer gates.
Yeah I can see that. For the 10 minutes and $5 in material it takes to add those it's definitely worth it for the piece of mind
So you just cut another collar of pipe and cut it in to and weld that to the other collar. if not you would have to get a bigger sized pipe to go over the other collar. So it's twice as thick
Great job fellas!
Thanks for the great content, been learning a lot these past couple of weeks from your channel
Te he descubierto hoy y amo tu canal, tu estilo, como enseñas es genial 👏
Awesome as always Austin
still looking clean as a heck brother.
Dad didn't own any jack stands or gate jacks. He had me. So I thought Dakota was your portable gate jacks. Yeah, impact drivers are fast, but you have to be careful. If I use a impact driver, I set the speed low ( low speed = low torque) and have a hand ratchet for the final tightening on anything critical.
Came here to see slam latches... Tough to install on gates that were not spaced right for them. You wind up shortening or lengthening and rehanging them.
I’ve been doing some searching for ideas on getting my property fenced up, so glad I found this! My boy can’t reach over the fence to get to current latch. It won’t be as pretty when I hack one together, but that’s slick
Then I see you’re an Okie! Even better. We have run some of the same roads no doubt. I used to work for Stillwater Fire ages ago. Looking forward to the rest of the channel!
Someone else may have been mentioned it already but I prefer to put the anchor in the mortar joint. Brick will crack very easily with any type of expansion anchor or a Simpson strong tie threaded anchor. An epoxy anchor can be used in brick or CMU but you have to deal with the nut and exposed end of the threaded rod.
You never fasten a post to a house if it’s in the ground. The ground moves at different rate then the house/foundation. Here in Canada if you do that all the bricks will be destroyed when the frost/thaw happens.
He might need to loosen those screws he tightned.
I'm surprised you don't use the green laser tape measures. I use them anytime I need to fabricate fence panels, or anything that needs to sit in-between 2 objects. They are insanely efficient, reliable, and eliminate the need for a 2nd hand for measurements in most cases. They're especially nice on really long runs where a tape will bend/ bow and not give you a dead nuts measurement. Maybe one day you can try them out, the future is here :D
Love your videos brother! Do you have a video about building the gate jacks?
Looks good Austin
Thanks Bart!
And thanks for watching!
Hey I use 1×1 angle with a piece of 1×1 square stock. Sandwich and bolted with wing nuts. Then attach with a chainlink stretcher. one even pull that way. Pretty much samething you had just thinner to be able ro hook with chainlink stretcher.
Great job Austin , clean job 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
One additional method, to put ing brackets on brick is to use the kit we’re you drill a hole and put a plastic socket in to the brick to-accept the screw . I find they don’t crack the brick or cement block because the plastic gives a little and wedges the screw in place.
Great video! I'm curious why you didn't just run the fencing around the outside of the corner post instead of dealing with the hassle of the stretch bar. Is it harder or less secure?
We are based in the UK & would have pre-fabricated all of these sections/panels & sent them away for galvanising (& possibly powder coating) in bolt together/portal format, rather than weld the whole installation on site! What coating is the client going to put on this metal work? those gate hinges seemed tight enough in the video, give them a couple of months of exposure to rain & oxygen & they are going to get even tighter. ive never seen panel work in a residential or commercial way done like this before. very interesting.
Cheers, Louis
Great job as always
Thanks for the tape measure quirk
ONE HELL OF A NAME THERE DAKOTA!!
We made self closing access point gates using angles cuts on pipe similar to what is in the slam gate latch.
I’d rather use the epoxy in place bolts with concrete.
Great video! Nice job! Keep up the good work! 👌👍
Nice work. Love your attention to detail. The slam latches are great for cattle corrals. If you throw the gate hard enough, it will skip past the latch - which can be helpful when working cattle. Curious why you hung the last gate lower than fence height, which essentially makes the entire fence that height.
You ever use a portaband to cut your pipe instead of the torch? We did 50 sticks, cut both ends off with one 6.0AH battery.
Did you build you clamp for the field fence? I like that design.
That’s a slick looking fence! I’d love to get into that more, but used pipe is hard to come by around me (for a decent price at least)
I think it's Everywhere 3 dollars a foot used drill pipe
@@briantruck2284that’s about what it runs here. $3/ft plus delivery or the drive
clean job
Great video, What king of fence wire is that?
Austin, do you ever do anything special when hanging longer gates off a line post to prevent the weight of the gate from bending the post when open?
How are the posts set? Are you digging a hole and concreting them in?
Good Job bro
Greetings,
Very good Video 👍👍👍
When will you have your Heather gray 3xxxl hoodies in.
You’re welcome!! Thank your for a very VERY easy to use website. Never been able to use Apple Pay like that on a website and in my opinion well priced. I laughed so hard a few times at this video I woke my girlfriend up😂
I’ll tell Kayla! That website is her baby lol. She is very talented! She will be glad to hear this! Thank you for your support!
What Victor torch are you using in this video? And those fence jacks are great. I need to get me a set
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Nice latch is there anyway to hide it inside the pipe for a cleaner look?
I’m going to steal that jack idea from you bud.
Nice looking fence project. Do any of your customers ever paint their fences?
Some say they plan on doing it.
When I built our roping pen my Dad was up here and looking at it; he asked are you going to paint it? I said if I do it'll be brown.. 🤣
Inspiration!
Man how far are you from celeste tx I know your in Oklahoma I’ve been wanting some tips on combo welding didn’t know if you’d be willing to do in person teaching
Great video Austin. Something to consider; the slam latch was placed under the horizontal rail of the gate which should be fine; however, the welded wire panel was added to the gate later requiring the person operating the gate to have to reach over the rail/panel to grab the slam latch handle. Placement of the latch above the horizontal pipe member would result in use of the latch to be more user friendly since doesn't have the pipe or panel as an obstacle to reaching the latch handle. Just something to consider for future slam latch installs.
Thanks Again, Austin!
I'm doing something very similar on all my gates but I'm using horse panel sections in the gate rather than the welded wire. I remove a rod or two from the panel so the latch can be reached from either side.
Looks great Austin. Where’d you find the wire panels for it?
Any farm store like Tractor Supply will have them
Have you considered getting a portable plasma cutter
Thank you!
COM ON !!!
Curious as to where you purchased the slam latches
Austin building a sliding steal frame with wooden pickets don't want to screw my wooden picket on the steal frame do you think this could work if I use 2x4 across with weld bracket holding the 2x4 then but my picket fence with wooden screws
sliding gate
Where do you find those spring loaded slam latches?
most metal yard have them
I enjoy your videos, but with this one, I wish you would've had the camera closer either while welding up the fence and gates or showed the finished work a bit more. I'm a visual learner, and it would have been nice to see what you did a little better. Otherwise I got the jist of how you did tge slam gate latch. Great idea.
Where did you get your stands from
Hello Austin how can I purchase one of those pre made gates?
Hi are those gate stands you use bought or h made ?
Any more information on those thanks
I made them. Here are some prints for them.
www.arosswelding.com/shop?category=Digital%20Prints
@@arosswelding got them thanks
Use a cmu anchor. After a couple of times the gate hitting, I hope the tycons hold.
Can I get Info on the gate latch please
I wouldn't tie into the brick like that because usually not a part of the house plus brick is too soft and screws and anchors usually don't hold. Whenever possible screw into the stud.
Hi Austin,
I had messaged you on Instagram but I don’t know if you saw it. I am trying to apply for the pipe fence scholarship but the page isn’t working. I was hoping I could figure out what is going wrong so I can apply before the enrollment period is over.
Thanks,
Bill
Shoot Kayla and email here in this link and she will get you fixed up. Thank you for reaching out here. We apologize about not getting back via Instagram… we are a bit behind over there 🫤
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Hey Austin,
I followed your suggestion and submitted a thing on the link you provided me but I never head back from anybody so I was not able to apply for the scholarship. Is there any way I can still apply? Where others able to apply or was everybody not able to?
Where do you find your pipe? I’m having trouble finding it
Where are those gates from?
Have you got a diagram of that latch I need to fix one just like it.
So have you always had your business? Or were you a pipe fitter or in the union previously?
How did you do the slam latch?
Use fire blankets to help protect the customers concrete.
how much does a job this size cost to do(to the owner) approximately
Just need some Austin abs kayla content...
This fence is what I’m looking for!! Looks great. How much would this run me to fence in 1 Acre like this?
To have us do it? Or do it yourself ?
@@arosswelding if ya’ll would do it?
Shoot me an email at arosswelding@gmail.com
He said!!!!! Watch the bubble boi!!!!!!
I have to ask, how is gates and fence a thing
Have you got a link to the welding helmet/hood you use/recommend? I am going to start welding as an old man, you do use an auto darkening one? How fast must it auto darken?
Dakota looks very familiar If yall are from around stillwater oklahoma area i think thats where i know him from
Bon Boulo😀😀
I know drill stim is cheep, looks good on the outside rust out from the inside. That's why I would never use it for fence
Dad has some fence made with it. Some started rusting out at 45yrs. Weird, some still looks good at 55yr. Maybe it was flushed better.
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That’s a bada$$ fence.. what do you think the life expectancy is on it?
40-60yr. Used oil field pipe can rust from the inside bad sometimes though.
😮