Custom & Hand-Forged Ironwork
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Powder Coating
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I am not in the trailer building business, but I had done a big iron work job for a customer's timber frame home, and he brought me this project. It was an old cotton wagon and he provided some lumber. He wanted a raised bed mounted waist high for easy unloading of feed and seed. He was very impressed with the way it turned out and I decided to post a before and after pic for others to see.
These old gates are 80+ years old and the house they came from was built in the 1920s. As you can see there is no paint left. The bottom of one gate is just about
gone and all the round pickets are severely deteriorated where they meet the bottom runner. I had to replace all the lower portion of one gate and
most of the other. Then they were sandblasted, primed and painted. I do everything in-house.
These came from the same estate. As you can see, the old flower pods were so deteriorated that I had to reforge 14 of them. Many scrolls had to be reforged and the bottom of one gate had to be replaced. The owner could not believe how good they turned out, especially after I showed him all the deteriorated pieces I had to reforge.
