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VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 194 WIDTH="235"><div> Here's some pics of the finished V Mesh fence in Parker Texas.</div> <div> We didn't want to get too crazy with the gate. So I did a little dressage silhouette in a rolled piece of quarter by three bar stock. </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="48ffabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 229 WIDTH="235"><div> Here's a gate latch I use on occasions. It's a pain in the butte to make and so I don't do it often. Also if the gate is left open or closed for long periods the through bolt has a tendancy to bind to the pipe retainers via mother rust.</div> <div> It might look like one shoe but there's two. A padlock fits over them so the decoration is in fact function over form. </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="490fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 194 WIDTH="235"><div> The two shoe assembly also is a viable gate unlocked or locked indicator. </div> <div> If you can see two shoes, the gate's unlocked. </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="491fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 743 WIDTH="235"><div> I hate silhouettes. It's like using cast aluminum filagree in wrought iron.</div> <div> Everyone's doing them and the cad programs hooked up to a plasma do them best.</div> <div> But in this situation I figured it'd work. I went to the internet for a photo, copied it off in black and white on clear plastic. Put it in an overhead projector.</div> <div> It was a nightmare. But when you're not an artist drawing a person on a horse is tough. So between using a piece of soapstone and getting a faint image on dark steel from an overhead projector and then trying to detail it out via looking, making a mark, erasing, making another mark, erasing, well, you get the picture. It wasn't fun.</div> <div> But what put the icing on the cake was my little Esab 625 handier than a pocket on a shirt plasma had the torch burned up by some other folks and I wasn't made aware of it. So I had to cut it out with the good old Victor 9000C cutting torch.</div> <div> Enough to make one generate a couple of dump truck loads of bad words. </div> <div> One of the things I hate about silhouettes is they're always attached to either expanded metal backgrounds or really obvious supports.</div> <div> I do it different.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="492fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 248 WIDTH="235"><div> So I use guarter inch cold rolled bar stock (stiffer than hot rolled) and have it come in from behind the silhouette. This gives the image a floating in space look.</div> <div> When you approach this gate coming down the road from either direction you don't see the supports without doing a double take. That double take is what I'm after. </div> <div> Here's a shot of six hundred feet of fence finished. </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="493fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 229 WIDTH="235"><div> That was the south side. Here's the north end, again, six hundred feet. </div> <div> Note how we split the telephone poles. The line is straight but at the front we're in about a foot and at the back a couple of inches. And we touch telephone poles. When it comes to property lines an inch is as good as a mile. It don't matter if you're giving or having either.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="494fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 194 WIDTH="235"><div> Supposedly one of the problems with using V Mesh is you can't roll up and down grade with it.</div> <div> We got lucky with the stuff we got. It rolled up and down just fine. </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="495fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="235"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="235" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="255"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="255" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>