electric gate openers

[Sheets Tabuer]

The gates to my garden are 143 feet away (we have a paved area to park the cars)and I am fed up of walking up the garden in the sodding rain to open the gates so my mrs can park, oh I think I'll get some gate openers.

How fking much???!!!!!!!!

Why are they so much, having looked online I am looking at 1k for wooden gates.

What other options are there?

[netherfield]

Getting wet.

[Trevor Hill]

Buy an umbrella.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Looks like I am gonna continue to get wet

[Bugeyeandy]

A bit of rope and a couple of pulleys, no more than £50 total.

If you want to rig it from indoors just feed the rope through the letterbox

[Trevor Hill]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Looks like I am gonna continue to get wet

You could always sit inside and let the missus get wet.

[davidjpowell]

It's ok. If you get them they only breakdown in the snow or when wet anyway.

Watch out for wooden gates. The wind is a bugger, and I reckon it's why our gates are a touch unreliable.

You often see metal pole gates for a reason I reckon.

Edited by davidjpowell on Saturday 1st May 09:38

[bogie]

they are expensive I guess as logic has it, if you have a large enough property with entrance gates that require them, you can afford it LOL

/ive wanted an electric field gate since I moved into the new place ....low on the list of jobs to do, but quite scary with quotes of £2K for a wood gate with an opener, and a bit of ground work .....