SLIDE GATES · ATHENS
Sliding & Cantilever Gates in Athens, TX
Rolling and cantilever slide gates for short drives, uphill grades and wide openings — built in our shop and set on a footing that keeps them level. We work across Athens — Lake Athens, Oakwood, Southwood and the surrounding area.
SCOPE
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.
Rolling slide gates
Gate rides a V-groove track set in a concrete strip across the drive.
Cantilever gates
Counterbalanced tail and roller posts beside the opening, with nothing on the ground in the drive.
Wide and commercial openings
Long spans for shops, equipment yards and lots where a swing gate would be too heavy to hang.
Ready for an operator
Built with the rack and the pad in place so a slide operator can go on now or later.
BASED IN CORSICANA, TEXAS — 32.0954° N, 96.4689° W
Why people call about this.
The drive is too short
A swing gate that opens inward needs a car length of room you may not have.
The grade runs uphill
A swing gate on a rising drive hits the ground. A slide gate moves across it.
The opening is wide
Past a certain span, leaves sag. A cantilever carries the weight on its own frame.
ATHENS, TX
Sliding & Cantilever 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
Sliding & Cantilever 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.