Come Along
Volume 2013 Issue 3
A letter from our Chapter President, Dear Chapter Members, Fall has arrived along with the normal rainstorms. I hope all of you had a profitable spring and summer. We held our annual “Summer Fun” meeting at Sunriver, Oregon in August. I think everyone had a great time. The weather was nice and the golf courses were in beautiful shape. I especially want to thank our hosts, Jennifer West (Westmeyer Fence) and Brad Howard (Security Contractor Services) for organizing the events. A special thanks to Barry Marrs (Security Contractor Services) for hosting the bar during the Friday night reception. On Saturday night we elected new directors and officers. You can see a complete list inside this newsletter. Our new president elect is Shawn Tomlinson (Gates & Controls) and our new secretary is Jennifer West (Westmeyer Fence). I personally want to thank our outgoing secretary, Serena Wood for her hard work and dedication to our chapter. Thanks Serena! We are going to hold our winter meeting up north in Centrailia, Washington, please see details inside this newsletter. Fencetech is coming up in March. It is back in Las Vegas. It promises to be a fun and educational show. Look for signup forms in the Fencepost magazine and in your e mail in box.
Sincerely,
Dick Boyle 2
PRESIDENT RICHARD BOYLE Dick’s Evergreen Fence & Deck, Inc. 503 640-7700 r.boyle@frontier.com PAST PRESIDENT JOHN KRUEGER Metro Access Control 503-595-4716 johnk@metrogates.com PRESIDENT ELECT Shawn Tomlinson Gates & Controls 425-251-1020 shawn@gatesandcontrols.com SECRETARY/TREASURER Dennis Fleck Town & Country Fence Co. 503 655-2055 dennis@tcfence.us EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Jennifer West West-Meyer Fence 503-978-1830 westmeyerfence@aol.com DENNY WADE Willamette Fence 503 285-2761 denny@willamettefence.com JAKE WARREN Metro Access Control 503-595-4716 jakew@metrogates.com HAROLD HARTLEY Northwest Fence Co. 541-426-4259 nwfence@eoni.com DIANE SOWLE McDermott Fence 503-655-9619 info@mcdermottfence.com WES CAMPOS Ameristar Fence Products 206-293-1307 wcampos@ameristarfence.com HERMAN HARDTKE Fence Specialists, LLC 253-531-5452
hermh@fencespecialists.com DOUG LORTIE Rainier Fencing & Decking 253.735.6113 info@rainierfenceanddeck.com
Welcome Aboard
New Board Members!
We’d like to take a moment to welcome our newest additions to the Pacific NW Chapter Board, and thank those who are leaving the board for their years of service. Our new board members that we’d like to welcome are:
- Diane Sowle of McDermott Fence - Wes Campos of Ameristar Fence Products - Herman Hardtke of Fence Specialists, LLC - Doug Lortie of Rainier Fencing & Decking You can find their contact info on the adjacent page. Other items of note are the election of Shawn Tomlinson of Gates & Controls as our next Chapter President, and Jennifer West of West-Meyer Fence as our new Chapter Secretary. We’d like to thank them for their continued support of the chapter. In addition to these, we’d like to give a huge thank you to Alex Weisensee of Pacific Fence & Wire who is stepping down from the Board of Directors after over 15 years of service from 1998 to 2013. Alex also served as our Chapter President from 2006 through 2008. We’d also like to thank Serena Wood who is passing on her role of Secretary over to Jennifer West of West-Meyer Fence. Thank you for all of your help behind the scenes on event organization and day to day needs of the Chapter!
Thank You! Alex Krueger Newsletter Editor
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Some is Good, More is Better? or,
Why Three Hinges on a Gate Isn’t a Good Idea
Mike Jacob; Modern Fence Technologies In the past month I’ve talked to several fence contractors who shared the same misconception. In each case they thought that adding a third hinge to a gate would allow a heavier gate to be hung safely. There are several reasons why this is not so. The first is that, no matter how hard you try, you will never be able to get all three hinges aligned in a straight line. There will always be a straight line between any two of the hinges, but to get all three in perfect alignment would be a tough job with a laser in perfect lab conditions, much less in the field. Why does that matter? Because the “odd man out” hinge will tend to push or pull on the gate frame, twisting it and leading to damage to both the gate and the hinge affected. To make matters worse, the hinge that is odd man out can change, depending on how far open or closed the gate is in its arc of travel. 4
Several of the contractors I talked to pointed out that the doors on their house have three hinges. That’s often the case, and as someone who worked as a carpenter for nearly twenty years, I can say that the chief reason for that is wood doors are not stable without a third hinge. The center hinge on a door is there to make the door more rigid, not to support the weight of the door. See the following article for deeper understanding of this. http://bit.ly/1hgisiZ
Continued... A second reason is that the weight of a gate is primarily borne by one hinge, not two, or even three. Unless you spend a lot of time perfectly balancing the hang weight of the gate from the hinges, one hinge will likely carry the bulk of the weight, most of the time. Think of an old wrought iron gate installation. The ring and pin hinges used for hundreds of years work well as an exam-
ple. The bottom pin carries the weight, the top pin serves as a pivot to guide the gate through its arc and keeps it from tipping over. “So how do I hang this heavy gate”, you ask? That’s the subject of the next installment.
Mike Jacob Modern Fence Technologies
Mike has been a great contributor to our newsletter for a few years now.
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Winter Dinner 2013
McMenamins Olympic Club 112 N Tower Ave. Centrailia, WA 98531 360-736-5164 6 PM, Friday, December 13th $45/person Hotel Block Code: 1312AMERIC_001 The Dinner will be held in a train station dinner parlor and will be buffet style. Join us for a breakfast Saturday morning, the 14th at 9 AM in the green room. Stay overnight in one of the hotel's 27 reasonably priced rooms in this historic building built in 1908!
Please RSVP by emailing John Krueger at Johnk@Metrogates.com (Click link to go directly to email), or calling 503-750-0762.
Check out more interesting info on the Olympic Club by following this link: http://www.mcmenamins.com/OlyClub
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Summer Fun 2013 Sun River Resort, Oregon
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Summer Fun 2013 Continued...
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Summer Fun 2013
The Golf Champions!
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Can you Guess
Where This Is?
As always, email your responses to Chapternewsletter@gmail.com
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Special Thanks to Our Advertisers: PEXCO Metro Access Control
www.pexco.com/fence www.metrogates.com
And Our Contributors: John Krueger Dick Boyle Mike Jacob Serena Wood
Have a Project of the Quarter? Email me at: chapternewsletter@gmail.com
Useful Links -ASTM Standards: www.astm.org -AFA Website: www.americanfenceassociation.com -AFA PNWC Website: http://www.americanfenceassociation.com/ Members/Chapters/PacificNorthwestChapter/ tabid/348/Default.aspx -AFA Facebook: www.facebook.com/americanfenceassociation -AFA PNWC Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Pacific-NW-Chap ter-of-The-American-Fence-Associa tion/169092446136 -Pool Standards: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/pool.pdf -AFA Newsletter: http://www.americanfenceassociation.com/ LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=pty%2bDm90KlY% 3d&tabid=382 -Call before you dig: www.call811.com -NW Chapter Shutterfly: http://fencelines.shutterfly.com/ 11