Landscape Lighting Gate Columns:
Drive Gate
(2-1/4" -thick gates under 12' overall width and not mounted to
steel frames)
The Columns are shipped as 3-sided assemblies. The net width of
your Drive Gate is configured to the width between the installed posts,
less the dimensions of the columns. Whether you are using 6x6
steel or wood posts, the columns are designed to slip into place around
your existing posts, held snug to the post dimension by filler blocks
mounted to the inside of the column.
Before securing the fourth side, secure the Column to the inner post
using the provided mounting bolts and the pre-bored locations found
on the solid sides of the Columns. Using these bores as guides,
bore through the steel post wall when using steel posts, and secure
the Column by using the bolts and lock-nuts provided. This is close
to the top of the steel post and accessible. (Note: it helps to
use a 1/4" or 5/16" dia. Tungston drill bit to bore through
the steel post walls.) With the Column secured, the fourth side, usually
facing the property, is secured to the column assembly.
Prebored screw holes mark the location. Screws and wood plugs
are provided with the Columns. (It is best to fit your wood plugs using
exterior wood glue). If you want to insure this joint remains tight,
use a bead of TiteBond 3 glue along these edges before screwing to place.
Keeping in mind, however, that this requires you to lift the Column
away from the steel post in the unlikely event it should ever need
to be removed.
For Lighted Columns: Before securing the fourth side to
the column, insure your low-voltage wiring is in place and fed out
at the bottom of the Column, where it will be junctioned to the power
source by your contractor.
The Pedestrian or Wood Drive Gates hinge to the Column
in exactly the same way they hinge to a normal post. Drive gat6es are provided
with 4-1/2" butt hinges, with the gates pre-marked, but the column
hinge-holes left to be set on the site by the installer. This
procedure is covered in detail under gthe Installation Guide.
With the gates himnged in place, the last step is to set the Post Cap
over the column and secure it in place with the pre-bored holes on
the cap apron. The cap should be oriented so these holes are
set to the solid faces of the Columns.
(Gates over 12' overall width and mounted to steel frames)
Drive Gates mounting to steel frames will require
the 6x6 steel posts be configured with steel T-Bar straps that are
welded to the steel posts.
These small flat-iron extensions are normally about 2-1/2" wide
by 1/8-1/4" thick, and approximately 3-1/2" long. Two
per post. The location of these are called out in the drawings
provided by CPW of the steel frame dimensions. Their excact dimensions
are verified from the field once the steel posts and the steel frames
have been installed by the automation contractor. With this dimension,
we make a small mortise in the Columns that allow them to slip over
the steel posts and fit to the T-bar extensions. The T-Bar extensions
are long enough to extend proud of the Column approximately 1/2",
allowing for the knuckle barrel hinge on the steel frame to weld to
the ends of the T-bars. This also insures that the entire bearing
load of the wood gate and steel frame are drawn from the steel post
and not the Wood Columns.
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Landscape Lighting Garden Gate
Columns
The columns arrive
as three-sided assemblies, slipping around your gate posts and
the fourth face fixing in polace through pre-bored holes and plugs. The
garden gate hinges from the columns in exactly the same manner
as when mounting from wood posts or jambs. At 10-1/8" square.
The inside dkmension is 7-1/8". Filler blocks are
mounted inside the columns, planed to a thickness that accomodates
the dimension of your post. If your existing gate post is a
surfaced 6x6 (5-1/2" sq), the net rough opening distance between
the gate columns will be 4-5/8" less than between your posts.
This is the rough opening available for your gate. So, for example,
if you have 48" between surfaced 6x6 posts, your actual gate
rough opening, with the columns in place, will be 43-3/8."
If you are using surfaced 4x4 posts (3-1/2" sq), your rough gate
opening between columns will be 6-5/8" less. A 48"
opening between 4x4's nets, with columns, to 41-3/8".
The pedestrian gates hinge off the columns
in the same manner as with wood posts or wood jambs. This is also
true for drive gates under 12' overall width, requiring no steel frame
and at 2-1/4" thickness gates.
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Landscape Lighting Garden Columns The Garden Column was designed primarily as an
architecural lighting source within the landscape.
These require 4x4 or 6x6 wood or steel posts
set into the grade and extending approximately 2-3 feet above ground.
The Column arrives as a compete four-sided assembly, slipping over the
top of the wood post. The wiring is fed out under the bottom
of the Column and junctioned to a low-volateg power source.
The Column is secured to the post using the pre-bored screw holes and
wood screws. The Column Cap slips over the Column and is secured
using the pre-bored holes and screws. Access to the fixture or
plexigleas sheets that back the upper grid pattern is allowed by remiving
the Cap. |
Post Caps Designed for surfaced 6x6 posts. Easily
fitted over the post and secured in place with provided pre-bored
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The
Hinkley fixture sets to a shelf, illuminating upward. The transformer
has been upgraded to a smaller unit, mungting just under the shelf
and sealed with silicone. 
