Subject: Re: Gate Hinges

From: "Bruce M. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 09:11:42 -0400

At 03:56 PM 5/2/96 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi Ya'll
>        Im building a 32X34 inch garden type gate to go on my deck, my
>current conundrum is what type of hinge/pintle system to put on it. The
>stationary end of the hinge is a 4x4 inch post. Any suggestions out there? 
>
Seems to me that I saw galvanized pintles suitable for 4x4 posts at Home
Depot.  In any
event, with a post that size the pintle could be threaded as a bolt or be
hammered into a pre-drilled hole.  You might want to design the pintle so
that the gate would exert minimum torque on it.
Bruce