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Farm gate roof rack

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Not my idea I saw it on Facebook, just my take on it

 

I started out with 3 six foot farm gates, 2 ten foot sections of unistrut and 40 feet of 3/4 conduit

 

First the farm gates were fitted together

I cut the top off one and the bottoming the other two, to end up with an approximate 11’6” total length

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I then added a top rail, made out of 3/4 conduit and welded on ( take appropriate cautions when welding galvanized)


the top rail is mounted with 3 1/2 flat steel cut to 6 inch lengths, I think it was 3/16 thick

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I mounted it using the 10 foot unistrut mounted to the factory mounts on the roof, set the rack onto the unistrut and used 2 hole clamps (1 1/4 conduit clamps) to secure the rack to the unistrut. 
 

sorry, I don’t have pictures of the mount, but it’s pretty straight forward. I have about $350 total into the rack including hardware and paint. 

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I may take it back off and paint it with raptor liner. Otherwise I’m happy. It does create quite a bit of wind noise, I guess I need to add a deflector?  Not sure yet. 

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