Gates and Sons has an extensive steel fabrication shop. We manufacture a variety of items from pour in place steel forms, precast forms, rolled radius rails, custom hand rails, and many Gates stock items such as scaffold brackets, hand rails, column clamps claws, etc. Pictured here is a unique custom steel column form for a job here in Colorado.
Here is view of this tapered rectangular column form standing up.
Poured in place steel column form.
20' long precast median barrier form for a job in Utah.
A close-up view of the 20' long precast median barrier form. Notice the end bulkhead with the speed bolts and turning pivot. The form is poured up side down, rotated and stripped.
A 10' long precast median form. This particular form had a unique mechanism on the end bulkhead to move the turning axis up or down to accommodate the balance of the form, full or empty.
Stripping the 10' median barrier form.
The finished 10' median barrier product.
Side view show rolling stop in the foreground.
This is a steel form for a poured in place outlet structure for a shrimp farm in Belize. It featured #9 Anchor Locks mounted on the vertical box tube strongbacks using taper ties.
Another view of the outlet structure for the commercial shrimp farm ponds.
Radius steel forms for poured in place wall for a ethanol plant in Kansas. Notice the traditional #9Anchor Lock straddling the double horizontal radius rolled 2x3 telespar rails. This particular job used she bolts and inner ties. We did install adjusters on the radius rails for adjustment for different radiuses.
A large expanse of the steel radius forms for the ethanol plant.
Steel forms for a combination median barrier and sound wall application for a job in Florida. This form features #9 Anchor Side Locks mounted on the vertical member using reusable taper ties.
A close-up view of the median barrier/sound showing the #9 side locks and taper ties.
This a poured in place leaning circular tapered column form.
An end view of the tapered circular column form.