RV & EQUIPMENT GATES · ATHENS
RV & Wide Equipment Gates in Athens, TX
Wide gates for RVs, boats, stock trailers, hay trucks and tractors — sized to what actually comes through and built so a long span does not sag. We work across Athens — Lake Athens, Oakwood, Southwood and the surrounding area.
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What this service covers.
Only the work we actually do — no padded list. If you are not sure whether your job fits, send a photo and we will tell you straight.
RV and boat gates
Side-yard and back-yard gates wide enough to back an RV or boat trailer through.
Stock trailer and hay truck gates
Pasture and barn gates sized for the trailer and the turn, not just the truck.
Spans that do not sag
Heavier frames, bracing, bigger posts and hinges sized for the weight of a long leaf.
Double swing or slide
Two leaves where there is room to swing, a cantilever where there is not.
BASED IN CORSICANA, TEXAS — 32.0954° N, 96.4689° W
Why people call about this.
You keep scraping the posts
The opening is the width of the trailer with nothing left for the turn.
The RV lives in the yard
Behind a gate is safer and, in many neighborhoods, the only place the HOA allows it.
The long gate drags
A wide gate on light posts sags fast. It needs a heavier post and frame.
ATHENS, TX
RV & Wide Equipment Gates in Athens: what’s different here.
Athens is the Henderson County seat, a town of about 12,900 people (2020 census) at the crossing of US-175, SH-31 and SH-19, roughly 60 miles southeast of Dallas. It calls itself the Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World, is home to Trinity Valley Community College, and has the 1,800-acre Lake Athens on its east side, with Cedar Creek Lake to the northwest. The City of Athens requires a permit for any new or replacement fence (8-foot maximum, smooth side out along a right-of-way, and drive gates in side or rear fences need an approved drive approach and curb cut), and on Lake Athens the Athens Municipal Water Authority separately permits structures built on its shoreline property.
Gates & Operators in Athens
Inside Athens city limits a drive gate in a side or rear fence needs an approved drive approach and curb cut, so the gate width is planned around the concrete, while lake and wooded acreage properties outside town usually want a solar operator at a gate set back under the trees.
The ground
Athens sits where East Texas begins: sandy loam over dense clay subsoil, with deeper sands toward the east of the county and pines and hardwoods along the fence lines, so posts dig easily at the top but need concrete deep enough to bear on firm ground below the sand.
Homes and lots
Older bungalows and cottages near downtown, 1960s–1990s ranch houses in established subdivisions such as Southwood, lake homes on Lake Athens including the gated Oakwood community, and wooded acreage out on the county roads.
Neighborhoods we work in
- Lake Athens
- Oakwood
- Southwood
- Downtown & the courthouse square
- Trinity Valley Community College area
- US-175 corridor
- SH-19 acreage
- SH-31 toward Malakoff & Cedar Creek Lake
RELATED WORK
Often goes with this.
QUESTIONS
RV & Wide Equipment Gates — things people ask.
CORSICANA, TEXAS — 32.0954° N, 96.4689° W
CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE.
Send a few photos and the address. Cesar will come look at it and give you a straight number — free.