{"id":1820,"date":"2023-08-07T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2025-05-15T04:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:09:56","slug":"what-size-post-do-i-need-for-my-driveway-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/what-size-post-do-i-need-for-my-driveway-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"What Size Post Do I Need for My Driveway Gate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16ft_6T7_Arched_Gate_Between_Pillars_in_Snow-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16ft_6T7_Arched_Gate_Between_Pillars_in_Snow-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16ft_6T7_Arched_Gate_Between_Pillars_in_Snow-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16ft_6T7_Arched_Gate_Between_Pillars_in_Snow-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16ft_6T7_Arched_Gate_Between_Pillars_in_Snow.jpg 1130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>What size post do you need for a driveway gate?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When shopping for a driveway gate, everyone pays a ton of attention to the gate leafs, but not much to the posts that are holding the gate up.  The last thing you want is too weak of a post where your driveway gate is sagging or dragging on the ground in a few years.  However, what is the &#8216;right&#8217; post for your selected driveway gate?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out this video we did that goes over what to consider, base specs of the driveway gate posts and what size of post you need based on your chosen gate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Size Post Do I Need for My Driveway Gate?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yCVHK2J0VRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When shopping for a driveway gate, everyone pays a ton of attention to the gate leafs, but not much to the posts that are holding the gate up. The last thing you want is too weak of a post where your driveway gate is sagging or dragging on the ground in a few years. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,10],"tags":[162,322,696,505,636,98,500,695,694,693,161,238,452,224],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driveway-walk-gate-installation","category-driveway-gates","category-things-to-know-before-buying-fence","tag-aluminum-gate","tag-buying-a-driveway-gate","tag-buying-an-entry-gate","tag-diy-gate","tag-diy-gate-install","tag-driveway-gate","tag-entry-gate","tag-gate-post-size","tag-gate-posts","tag-install-your-own-gate","tag-iron-gate","tag-metal-gate","tag-steel-gate","tag-wrought-iron-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironfenceshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}