When we bought our place 26 years ago I put in a pipe gate to block the ne'er do wells from access to our property. Over he years I've added a couple cable gates at other access points ( I didn't have any cable when I built the pipe gate or I would have made a cable gate instead). We made new base poles, lock box, and concreted them in last Tuesday. They are in the ground about 4.5', they stick out about 3.5'. Tonight we installed the cable. The old pipe gate has taken a lot of abuse over the years, I've found broken chains, broken straps, and broken pieces of tail lights.
. There is a pretty good bend in it from the attempts folks have made to remove it. I'll pull the old base pipe out with the excavator next time I'm down there. Thanks.
Bryan
