Re: [AFMUG] OT power company guy anchors

[Bill Prince]

We just replaced a couple of Elite openers. A contractor cut a corner short and ripped one gate and the opener completely out of the ground. They had to be over 25 years old, but they'd been very reliable. The opener was beyond repair, and they don't make that model any more anyway. So we ended up replacing both of them with a pair of LiftMaster RSW12U. We've had them installed for a bit over a year now. They're a teeny bit slower than the Elite units, but they operate on a pair of 12V batteries. If there's a power outage, they continue to operate for something like 130 open/close cycles. LiftMaster makes another unit just like it that does a rolling gate. I think it's almost identical except for direction of the drive gear. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 7/3/2019 6:55 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote: Congrats. By the way, if you are happy with the gate opener you choose please post what you decided on. I have a couple of gate openers in my stroage complex that drive me crazy. On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:24 PM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: When I designed my shop, I was fitting it into an odd sized lot on a subdivision I was doing.  The lot was triangular and of course the building rectangular. I wanted to be able to drive a semi+ trailer all the way around the whole building so that access to my loading dock was easy and nobody had to turn around or back up much.    The limiting factor on the width of the drive was a set of guy wires from a very large set of triple pole transmission line corner.  There are about 15 guys on that setup.  6 anchoring the 3 poles in the two different directions and 3 splitting the angle on the corner.  Those three went off in the direction of my building.    I have been trying for years to get the right person at the power company to come and evaluate the guys as I thought they could reduce the angle and give me some more space for the driveway.  They finally did.    I gained 24 feet!  They just moved them closer to the poles.  It was not free but they allowed me to save some money by digging the holes for the new anchors.    So now I can set up a 30’ motorized rolling gate with a remote.  No more chain and padlock every morning and evening.  It was a good day today.  -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell

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