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Linear Welding & Fabrication: The Fort Worth Owner’s Guide

We stock and fabricate Linear-compatible gate parts at Gatewood Fence & Gate, and we weld them on site in Fort Worth, usually the same day you call. Installed welding and fabrication work for Linear gates typically runs $225 to $475, depending on whether we’re rebuilding a hinge, bracing a cracked upright, or fabricating a custom bracket. Most owners discover the problem when the gate starts dragging on the driveway, or when a weld snaps with a sound like a rifle shot and leaves the gate hanging by one hinge.

Call (817) 241-4067

Hal Gatewood has been repairing Linear gates across Fort Worth since 2001, and he’ll tell you the same thing he tells every customer: the metal fails where the manufacturer cut corners, and the fix is rarely just slapping a bead over the crack. You need to know why it cracked first.

Key Takeaways

• We weld Linear gate frames, hinges, posts, and mounting brackets on site, in your driveway.
• Most Linear welding repairs in Fort Worth run $225 to $475 installed.
• We stock common Linear replacement steel and fabricate what we don’t have.
• Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing.
• Call (817) 241-4067 and a live person answers, day or night.

Which Linear Models This Applies To

Linear gate operators are common on residential swing and slide gates throughout Fort Worth, and the welded steel components attached to them fail more often than the operators themselves. The welding work we do applies across the Linear product line: the Linear OSCO swing gate operators, the Linear SL and SLD slide gate models, the LRA residential swing arms, and the older Linear APeX and MegaCode systems that are still running on plenty of Tarrant County properties.

Here’s the compatibility gotcha most people don’t know: the Linear part number on the operator tells you almost nothing about the fabricated steel around it. A Linear OSCO operator mounted on a welded steel gate frame built in 2008 has completely different hinge and bracket dimensions than one mounted on an aluminum gate from 2019. We match the steel to the gate, not just to the opener. When Hal shows up, he measures hinge centers, post wall thickness, gate weight, and the weld pattern before he cuts anything.

As for OEM versus aftermarket: Linear doesn’t sell pre-welded gate frames as service parts. The mounting brackets and hinge plates bolted to the operator arm are OEM, but the steel they attach to is nearly always locally fabricated. That’s where we come in. We use quality aftermarket steel sized to match or exceed the original, and we weld it so the gate hangs true. We’re an independent service company, not affiliated with Linear, which means we answer to you and to our 90-Day Done Right Promise, not to a corporate parts catalog.

Signs Your Linear Welding & Fabrication Is Failing

• The gate scrapes the driveway or drags on the low side. A weld has stretched or a hinge has pulled out of square. The gate didn’t get longer; the frame spread because a weld bead cracked through and let the corner drop.
• A hinge plate has visible rust bleeding through the paint. Rust expands steel. Expansion pushes the weld apart from inside. By the time you see rust staining, the metal underneath is thinner than a dime, and it’ll snap under a good push.
• The gate jerks or shudders when the operator runs it. That’s not the motor struggling. That’s a broken weld flexing open and closed on every cycle, which is also wrecking the operator gears.
• A weld crack you can see, with a dark line or a gap that opens when you push on the gate. This is the one that gets ignored until the gate falls on a car or a grandkid. Don’t ignore it.
• The gate post leans or moves when the gate cycles. The post base is compromised, usually because the original installer set it in shallow concrete. The fix is cutting, reinforcing, and re-welding the post bracket, sometimes re-setting the post entirely.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Here’s straight pricing for Fort Worth. A simple hinge re-weld with plate reinforcement runs $225 to $300. Repairing a cracked gate frame corner with a scab plate and stitch welding runs $275 to $375. Fabricating a new hinge bracket or mounting plate from scratch, including cutting, drilling, and welding, runs $350 to $475. If the post itself needs to be cut, sleeved, and re-welded, you’re looking at $400 to $575 depending on how deep the concrete goes and whether we’re working around existing electrical.

Every quote includes the labor, the steel, the welding consumables, and cleanup. You get the full price before we strike an arc, and you agree to it in writing before any work starts. No surprises at the door. Every weld we make carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not done right, we make it right, no hedges and no runaround.

DIY or Call Us?

You can safely check a few things yourself: look for visible cracks in the paint around hinge plates, push the gate when it’s stopped and see if the corners flex, and check whether the post moves when the gate cycles. That’s diagnosis, and it helps us when you call.

What you should not do is break out a welder and try to lay a bead over a cracked gate. Welding on a gate that’s under tension can kill you, and a bad weld on a moving structure fails fast anyway. Welding a gate hinge or frame while the gate is still mounted means the gate can pinch, fall, or shift mid-weld. We weld it properly: gate blocked, ground clean, joints prepped, and the repair built to hold in Texas heat and wind. If you’re in Fort Worth and you see a crack, call (817) 241-4067. It’ll cost less to fix now than to replace the gate later.

FAQs

Call Gatewood Fence & Gate for Linear Welding in Fort Worth

If your Linear gate is cracking, leaning, or hanging crooked in Fort Worth, call (817) 241-4067. A live person answers, day or night. We’ll quote you a fair price, show up in the window we promise, and weld it so it stays fixed. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop and the invoice. Give me a call, that’s my real number, and I’ll pick up.

Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner, Gatewood Fence & Gate at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Fort Worth and nearby areas.