Articles tagged with: hand forged

Daylesford Gate – New Heritage Farm Gate

Image of heritage farm gate modeled on Daylesford's Wombat Park entrance gate

Till recently, the Daylesford gate has only been available as a custom designed farm gate. Due to it’s popularity, we have decided to include it as a standard design under the bar gates collection, in the heritage style country gates range. Modeled on the entrance gate to the historic ‘Wombat Park Estate’, in Daylesford, Victoria the gate is:

Genuine Adelaide Wrought Iron Gates & Fences

wrought iron gate in Adelaide

If you want a wrought iron gate or fence in Adelaide it’s important to understand the difference between a genuine wrought iron product that will last a lifetime and a cheap and inferior product which will never look the same or last as long. The more Farmweld’s reputation grows, the more we hear about “fake wrought iron”. A large percentage of Adelaide fencing businesses advertise wrought iron gates when in fact all they supply are thin tubular steel panels adorned with cast aluminium spears. It’s surprising how few people recognise the difference between genuine wrought iron gates & fence panels and these cheaper tubular products labelled as ‘wrought iron’.

Hand forged courtyard gate, Buderim Qld

Hand forged wrought iron courtyard gate

We spent ages searching in person and on the web for someone who could produce a quality wrought iron gate in a traditional style at a fair price. We weren’t interested in cheap and shoddy but by the same token we also weren’t prepared to pay for underwriting someone’s over-expensive website, either. I liked the look and feel of Farmweld’s website straight away, because you could tell these were people who were passionate about what they were doing and

Wrought iron garden gates, Braidwood NSW

Custom wrought iron gates with leaf barrier, Braidwood NSW

The gates Farmweld designed and constructed for us are beautiful.  Everyone who visits comments on their beauty and old world charm. They’ll look even lovelier once the roses grow up the other side. The attention to detail in the construction of the gates contributes to this old world charm.

We were highly impressed with the design service.  Everything was possible.  Nothing was a bother. We found Farmweld to be highly professional and we wouldn’t hesitate in recommending them.

Wrought iron side gate & fence panels, Strathalbyn SA

Wrought iron steel gates made by Adelaide Blacksmith Andrew Hood, add a touch of elegance to the side entrance of this Adelaide hills house.

We wanted to go locally. We wanted someone who could “translate” and meld both my and my wife’s ideas together and come up with a gate and fence we both liked. We also wanted a gate and fence that would last and fit in with our older style home.

Farmweld did all that in a very exemplary way . Based on our ideas Trish/Andrew provided us with