Articles tagged with: old gates

Heritage Mesh Garden Gates

Did you know that heritage mesh garden gates have been around for over 100years? Your Nana, or great grandparents probably had a mesh and wrought iron gate, gracing the entrance to their garden. Heritage gate or vintage gates evoke joyful memories for many people. The most popular and well known brand was Cyclone. However, there were many other foundries and gate makers around Australia, who

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:

Daylesford Heritage Gate

Daylesford gate

Quite often we’re asked if we can replicate an old heritage gate that someone’s seen and fallen in love with. The usual scenario is that you’ve got an older property which has lost the original gates but you haven’t been able to buy an old gate from anywhere. You really need something ‘old’ to suit. The one gate we’ve been asked about the most is the one shown in the Vic Tourism ad for Daylesford and Hepburn Springs. This gate graces the driveway entrance to the historic Wombat Park Homestead with it’s magnificent gardens.

What to look for when buying Heritage Cast Jointed Gates – HV McKay Sunshine Gates, Cyclone and Simpson Gates

heritage cast jointed gate

The old Australian cast jointed farm gates from the turn of the 20th century are harder to find but as popular as ever due to the nostalgia around owning a heritage gate like those on our grandparents and great-grandparents old farms. Demand for old gates for sale has pushed prices quite high despite them being in really bad condition. We are often asked about restoring old gates but quite often the old “drag & drop gates” as they were once known, are not economically viable to fix. The bottom bars are

Rusty old garden gates – the trend in garden landscaping & how to maintain rusty items

Whimsical wrought iron gates dress up a chicken coop and vegetable garden. Rusty garden gates are low maintenance and popular with gardeners

Rusty old garden gates and farming implements are much sought after as garden features. Many people love the rusty patina of steel. Learn how to maintain your steel items so they’re around for years to come.

Old gates and garden implements are getting harder to find for sale at auctions, clearing sales, demolition yards and second hand stores. Rusty old garden structures, especially heritage style gates, cast jointed farm gates like the Sunshine McKay and Simpson gates, old farming implements, rusty wagon wheels and quaint wrought iron garden gates are

Heritage wrought iron estate gates

Wrought iron country estate gates needn't be expensive. Sometimes simple wrought iron designs are better than something over complicated.

What do you do when you need a formal entrance to a property with Australian Colonial architecture but it needs to work with French Provincial interior decorating … go wrought iron of course. The wrought iron entrance gate to this NSW property was made keeping in mind both styles and the owner couldn’t be happier.

The Brief: The house on this property was built in 1898 but it has been renovated with a French Provincial interior. The house is

Cast Iron McKay Sunshine Gates & Cast Jointed Simpson Gates … the modern alternative

cast jointed gate

Heritage cast jointed gates are much sought after and are getting more difficult to find. Farmweld reproduces both the Sunshine McKay cast jointed gate and the Adelaide made Simpson cast jointed gates, with two differing styles of cast iron knuckles. They are hard to distinguish from the original heritage Sunshine McKay and Simpson gates.