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AfterFast, Reliable Gate Parts & Welding Across Olive Branch
If your gate is sagging, dragging, or the operator sounds like it’s chewing gravel, we can fix it. Gatewood Fence & Gate has been repairing gates since 2001, and our Gate Parts & Welding team handles everything from hinge replacement to full custom welding, right in your Olive Branch driveway. The silt-loam and clay ground here works on posts year after year, and the humidity eats lower weld joints. That’s not a mystery, it’s just what happens, and we know how to correct it. Call (877) 610-2993 and Hal Gatewood will answer, not a machine.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Olive Branch’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
Hal Gatewood started this shop in 2001, and his name is still on the door. We’re not a franchise that rolls through Olive Branch one week and disappears the next. Homeowners around Olive Branch know they can drive to the shop, look Hal in the eye, and get an honest answer about a gate that’s seen better days. The person who quotes the job is the person who does the job.
Reviews from Olive Branch customers point to the same things: we show up in the window we promised, we fix what’s broken, and we don’t pad the invoice. Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing, not buried in fine print. If the weld cracks or the hinge loosens, one call brings Hal back. No runaround.
Our crews serve Olive Branch locally, coordinated from our metro office in Memphis, and we also handle Gate Installation in Olive Branch. That means when your HOA gate on Goodman Road locks open at 6 p.m., you’re not waiting on a parts truck from three counties over. And because we stock parts for the brands that dominate Olive Branch’s 1990s and 2000s subdivision gates, we usually finish the job in one visit.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Olive Branch
Hinge Replacement
A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle. That’s where we start. In Olive Branch’s planned communities, we routinely replace builder-grade hinges that were undersized for the gate they’re carrying. We weld new barrel hinges and weld-on brackets, adjust the gate to close square, and the sag is gone. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice.
Post Replacement
DeSoto County clay expands when it’s wet and shrinks when it’s dry. That cycle pushes shallow-set posts out of plumb, and once a post moves, the whole gate moves with it. We saw this in Windsor Park off Goodman Road, where a 2004 Elite slide gate had stripped its rack and pinion after years of clay-driven post movement. Our crew cut out the old galvanized rail, welded a heavier aluminum rack on fresh gate rollers, and reset the post with a deep footing and rebar, all before the HOA’s next landscape walkthrough. If your post is leaning, we can often straighten it by cutting the weld at the base, chipping out the old footing, and pouring new concrete. If the post itself is rotted or cracked through, a new one goes in the same day.
Rail Repair
Wrought-iron gates around Olive Branch rust through at the lower welds because humid subtropical air never gives the metal a break. When the bottom rail is gone, the gate starts to twist, and you’ll see the pickets bowing. We cut out the rot, weld in new steel, and grind it smooth so you can’t tell where the repair starts. In most cases, that saves you the cost of a whole new gate. Show me the gate closing on its own and I’ll show you where it’s failing.
Custom Welding
Not every gate repair has a part number waiting at a supplier. When a hinge post is too far gone, or an operator mount needs to be built from scratch, we weld it on site. The gate stays in your driveway. We don’t haul it off and bring it back two weeks later. We take care of the gate rollers, the latch pockets, the receiver plates, all of it.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Olive Branch
Most Olive Branch subdivision gates run on a handful of brands installed between 1995 and 2015, and when the motor fails we offer Olive Branch Gate Motor & Opener service. We’re certified to service nine major gate brands, and we keep parts on the truck for the ones we see constantly around here: Elite, LiftMaster, Viking, and Ghost Controls are common calls. If your Elite control board has burned out for the second time, we can retrofit a modern board rather than replacing the whole operator. That’s a repair-first approach, not a swap-and-bill approach.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Olive Branch Homes
- Early-2000s LiftMaster and Elite operators with obsolete control boards. These boards fail in phase because dozens of Olive Branch HOA gates were installed in the same three-year window. When one goes, its neighbors usually follow within a few months.
- Builder-grade hinge posts set shallow in clay. DeSoto County soil moves with the seasons, and a post that was never given a proper footing will heave out of plumb every spring. The gate might have been perfectly tuned last fall; it’s hopeless by March.
- Wrought-iron gates rusting through at the lower weld joints. Year-round humidity works on the metal from the bottom up, and by the time you notice the rust, the rail is often thin enough to crack. This isn’t cosmetic damage.
- Slide gates jumping teeth on the rack and pinion. When a post shifts, the rack moves with it, and the pinion gear starts skipping. That grinding noise you hear is the gear eating itself. A new rack alone won’t fix it if the post is still moving. The post has to be stabilized first.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Olive Branch, MS
Here’s what Olive Branch homeowners can expect to pay. A typical hinge replacement runs $180 to $320. Post replacement, depending on whether the post is steel or aluminum and how deep the new footing has to be, runs $350 to $650. Rail repair and custom welding run $220 to $480, based on how much metal has to be cut out and replaced. A full rack and pinion replacement on a slide gate runs $400 to $700, and we always check the post alignment before we quote, because replacing the rack without fixing the post means you’ll replace it again next year. The price is quoted and agreed before any work starts. Nobody shows up at your door with a higher number than the one you approved on the phone. We offer $40 off any repair over $200, no trip charge inside the county, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans.
We Also Serve Cities Near Olive Branch
Our crews work across DeSoto County. We handle Gate Parts & Welding in Olive Branch neighborhoods from the HOA entrances off Goodman Road to the older properties near Highway 305, and we also serve Southaven, Horn Lake, and Hernando. If you’re on the edge of town and not sure we cover your street, call (877) 610-2993. Chances are we were in your subdivision last week.
Serving Olive Branch, MS - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Olive Branch area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Gate Parts & Welding in Olive Branch
Yes, in most cases we can install a modern aftermarket control board that works with your existing Elite motor and limits, which costs roughly $250 to $450 parts and labor versus $900 to $1,400 for a full operator replacement. We’ll inspect the board wiring and the limit assembly first, because an underlying short can burn out a new board within a year. Call (877) 610-2993 and Hal will tell you after a look whether a retrofit is safe for your gate, and he’ll stand behind it with the 90-Day Done Right Promise.
It’s the clay under the post, not the limit switch. DeSoto County’s heavy clay soil absorbs winter moisture and swells, lifting the post a fraction of an inch. That fraction changes the hinge geometry, which drops the latch end of the gate. In most cases we can correct this by cutting the post free, re-bedding it with a deeper concrete footing and rebar, and re-plumbing the hinges. That’s a permanent fix.
Almost always. Scale and rot around the bottom rail is the number one thing we cut out and re-weld in Olive Branch. We remove the corroded section, weld in new steel matching the profile of the existing pickets, and most homeowners can’t find the repair afterward. The gate stays in your driveway while we work, and you’re looking at $220 to $480 depending on how far up the rust has spread. Call for a free estimate.
Usually it’s a cold-weather failure in the keypad’s wiring or the circuit board, not the gate itself. When temperatures drop below 30, the expansion and contraction in the keypad housing can crack solder joints or let condensation onto the board. If the gate operator itself still cycles, the problem is almost certainly at the keypad or in its low-voltage wire run, which we can trace and repair as part of our Gate Access Control - Olive Branch services. Fixing the keypad before spring is smart because ice storms in the Memphis metro can strand a whole subdivision with a locked gate for days if the entry system fails first.
If the pinion teeth are worn, we can replace just the pinion, typically $80 to $150. But if the rack itself has stripped sections, which is what we find on slide gates around Olive Branch, the rack and pinion should be replaced together, and the post alignment has to be corrected or the new rack will strip the same way. The original 2004-era racks installed in Olive Branch subdivisions are reaching the end of their service life at the same time, and we see clusters of failures in neighborhoods like Windsor Park, especially after wet winters when the clay has moved the posts.
Trusted Locally, Needed Today
We fix gates in every ZIP in 38654, and we do it the old way: on-site, with welded repairs that outlast the gate. If your post is leaning, your rail is rusted through, or your operator is from the first Bush administration, call (877) 610-2993. A live person answers, day or night. You’ll get an honest answer, a written price before any work starts, and a 90-day promise in plain English.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Olive Branch since 2001.