EZ Gate Lift Assist

[brentsawyer]

Raising and lowering a 100lb gate 20 times a day obviously takes alot out of workers. I have seen the EZ Gate on a couple of LCO companies this year and was curious as to what everyone else thinks of them. They claim to reduce the strain of lifting and lowering by 80%.

[mdb landscaping]

many people on here built there own. go to eric elm, a member on this sites web page at www.elmlawnsite.com
he built his own and has pictures on his website.

[AltaLawnCare]

I copied Eric's, home made set up.

I just kick up the edge of the gate and grab it, then drop the pin in! Never have to bend over and pick it up again.;)

[scott's turf]

Where did you get the springs? I like the set up. I think I will copy it as well.

[kutnkru]

Scott I believe he said they were garage door springs. Check with Eric and he will confirm.

[CLC]

Can anybody post detail directions?

[stslawncare]

OH ERIC???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:blob4: :D

[kutnkru]

For those of you unfamiliar with Erics site or how to navigate the internet here is the link to the page being referenced:
http://www.elmlawnsite.com/gate_lift_page.htm

Hope this helps. :rolleyes:
Kris

[GreenQuest Lawn]

I had mine built by my fabricater (looks just like the ez-gate.)

Its just two 150lb garage door springs (they come with the cable)

two eye bolts (welded on the trailer and gate) to hold the cable on one side and the spring on the other.

The cable runs through the square bracket which holds two pulleys.(these were made on his lathe out of plastic)

Finally the springs were put inside a piece of tube for saftey.

The tubes were mounted on a few pieces of 1" sqare stock to keep the cable from rubbing on the tube

[Runner]

Cool! Mine looks just like yours, Todd. I drilled and bolted my eye bolts on, though. I also used a little heavier cable on mine. For the pulleys, I just bought a tackle pulley because I wanted one piece (not split) pulleys, and made my own bracket out of 1/4" plate steel, welded. (a little heavy, I know.) Works great! I just put my toe under the gate, give a little lift with my ankle, and my gate comes right up to me!:D I have about 20 bucks into mine, I think.;)

[Stonewall]

Has anybody tried mounting the spring under the top rail of the trailer? It would be out of the way like that.

[Runner]

The uprights would interfere with it. Also, it has to have that pulley to ride over TOP of when the gate is down.

[casey]

It is really quite simple:
1 garage door spring & 2 U bolts.
U-bolt the spring near the top of your tailgate ramp-U-bolt the other side of the spring to the top rail of your trailer, adjust length accordingly.

[LAWNGODFATHER]

I bought one at the Expo in KY. I love it kick the gate up.

Here is another thread I found using the search function.

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18596&highlight=ez+gate

It has some more replies in it for you.

[Runner]

Geez! It's an exact duplicate of this thread!:D I thought I remembered a thread like this, but I didn't think it was that recent! Todd and I could have just cut & pasted our replies on!:rolleyes: lol

[David Haggerty]

Originally posted by Stonewall
Has anybody tried mounting the spring under the top rail of the trailer? It would be out of the way like that.

I made one using the coil spring out of a car. I mounted it under the trailer so it pushes the tailgate up.

Dave

I see you're in Hattiesburg...beautiful town. Do you still have that great buffett there?

[Eric ELM]

I used to have one with the cables, pulleys, springs and stuff like you all have on my old trailer. You have to have more tension on the spring to do it that way. The way I built mine on the present trailer, I am using leverage to lift it and I have very little tension on the spring to do the same job, which makes it less dangerous as far as spring breakage. :)

[Stonewall]

Eric,

Could you explain your setup a little more?


David,

We have several good buffets down here. Are you from these parts?