Wooden Gates For Bucks, Berks, Herts & Oxon
Provide a solid, immovable stopping point for your double driveway gates with the Heavy Duty Centre Gate Stop with 3 Legs. Specifically engineered to handle the substantial momentum of wide wooden gates, this concrete-in ground anchor features three long, ribbed structural steel legs designed to be set directly into concrete or wet mortar. It sits flush to the driveway surface, creating a central physical block that stops gates from blowing past their closing line, shaking in high winds, or twisting their hinges.
Ultimate Concrete-In Grip: Three extended, heavy-gauge anchors lock deep into the ground substrate, ensuring the stop can never loosen, wobble, or pull free.
Protects Gate Geometry: Absorbs daily slamming forces to prevent your timber frames from warping and your hinges from bending over time.
Low-Profile Vehicle Clearance: Rises just high enough to safely catch the bottom rails of your gates, while remaining low enough for standard domestic cars to drive over smoothly.
Marine-Grade Galvanised Steel: Thick hot-dipped zinc finish eliminates the risk of underground rusting, peeling, or degrading over decades of exposure to standing puddle water and road salt.
£11.60 + VAT
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Double wooden gates look fantastic, but because they meet in the middle of a driveway without a central frame post to lock against, they are incredibly vulnerable to wind damage. Without a solid ground anchor, high winds can flex the timber, causing drop bolts to rattle out of position and placing immense leverage strain on your main hinge plates. Our Centre Gate Stop with 3 Legs is the definitive, trade-recommended ground brace for high-load residential and agricultural entrances.
Constructed from heavy-forged structural steel, this central stop is designed for permanent longevity. Once embedded in your driveway’s concrete threshold, the three-pronged anchor array works as a subterranean root system, distributing surface impacts evenly through the ground to create an unyielding closing barrier.
Triple-Anchor Sub-Structure: The three individual steel legs offer triple the surface adhesion of standard single-pin ground stops, completely resisting frost heaving or loose soil shifting.
Universal Drop Bolt Target: Serves as the perfect central striking block to align your gates while providing a secure channel for vertical drop bolts or tower bolts to slide down behind.
Anti-Bleed Corrosion Shield: Industrial hot-dipped galvanised plating prevents underground rot and surface rust bleeding, keeping your driveway threshold neat, clean, and stain-free.
Heavy Vehicle Deflection: Engineered to withstand regular vehicle drive-overs without warping, buckling, or loosening from its concrete bed.
| Attribute | Specification |
| Product Type | Heavy-Duty Concrete-In Central Gate Stop |
| Leg Configuration | 3x Extended Ribbed Anchor Legs |
| Material Base | High-Tensile Forged Structural Steel |
| Finish | Weatherproof Hot-Dipped Galvanised Zinc |
| Installation Method | Sub-Surface Concrete Embedment (Core-Drill or Wet-Pour) |
| Vehicle Friendliness | Low-Profile Design (Safe for standard domestic car clearances) |
| Suitability | Double Driveway Gates, Wooden Estate Gates, Heavy Agricultural Barn Doors |
Pro Tip: To install the stop cleanly into an existing tarmac or concrete driveway, use a core drill to sink three neat holes, or excavate a small pocket roughly 150mm deep. Mix up a batch of rapid-setting structural mortar or epoxy resin grout, fill the cavity, and push the three legs down until the top strike plate sits level with your driveway surface (or up to 10mm proud, depending on your gate’s bottom ground clearance). Close your timber gates over the wet assembly to verify that the bottom rails rest perfectly flush against the vertical stop plate before the concrete cures.
Size – 5 Inch x 1.5 inch plate
Legs – 10mm x 4.5 inch long
| Weight | 5 kg |
|---|---|
| Shipping | Delivery cost applied at checkout |
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