Automatic Farm Gate Openers Systems

Most Farms and Ranches have numerous gates along their enormous plots of land. From as few as 2 to upwards of 20, their fences often allow numerous points of entry to get equipment, farmers, and of course animals through! However, it can be a pain to have to get out of the truck every time you want to open a gate, especially if you're not already right there and need to drive over to the gate you want opened. Luckily, there's a simple solution. An Automatic Farm Gate Opener system.

What is an Automatic Farm Gate Opener System?

As it sounds, an Automatic Farm Gate Opener System is a farm gate opener that automatically opens and closes for you, eliminating the hassle of opening and closing one of often many gates on your farm or ranch. Typically these come in the form of a Swing Gate which can open or close in your direction of choice, inward or outward. As long as the gate has been measured for proper clearance from the ground, you can install one of these gate openers on nearly any fence gate.

What Are the Benefits of an Automatic Farm Gate Opener System?

One of the many niceties of having an Automatic Farm Gate Opener is that you can open any of your farm or ranch's many gates without having to walk or get out of your vehicle and open it yourself across all of your gates. If you're needing to open multiple gates per day, you're saving several hours per year! Additionally, you can set open and close timers to automate the process of opening and closing your gates. This is a fantastic option for you if, for example, you're letting certain animals out into one of your fields at a certain time of day. If it's early in the morning, gone are the days of getting up to go let them out when your gate can do it for you!

The best benefit of having an automatic farm gate opener system is that it greatly increases the security of your farm or ranch. It is significantly more difficult for an unsuspecting criminal or the average farm animal to get through an automatic gate opener than a simple lock and latch. This is for a number of reasons including their resistance to force as well as their resistance to weather, keeping them stronger over a longer duration.

How Do I Power My Automatic Farm Gate Opener System?

Given that your Automatic Farm Gate Opener System is electrically powered, it's a valid question to ask? Are you expected to have wires running along your farm fence with animals and/or equipment running around? No, there are two ways to power automatic fence gate openers. One option is the classic AC charging method involving batteries and/or power supply. After a while they will need charged manually, however batteries designed for these openers are designed to last for months to even years at a time. They are a fairly convenient option and are fairly cost effective, it's just important to remember to charge them after a certain amount of time has passed.

The other option is to use the new Solar charging method. Still using a battery, this method uses a Solar panel (included in most of our kits) to constantly charge the battery of your farm gate opener system. This minimizes maintenance across all of your swing gate openers as you no longer need to worry about having to remember to charge the batteries in your many openers as they are always being charged. Not only this, one of the benefits of having a Solar charging farm gate opener is that over time it becomes more cost effective. While you are initially paying a small premium for the Solar system, in the long run you are saving a significant amount of money on electricity!