I am not really that interested in doing it but I was curious why there are not many doing it around here.
There are a lot of purely mechanical problems with these gates. They seem to get rammed a lot ... right after the bars close. (2am)
The main guy here charges $350 to start his truck and a healthy markup on parts. Even with that, he is not that responsive, a 9-5 guy. They don't really fix much. The other day they wanted $300 for a motor that needed $7 worth of brushes and 2 minutes to put them in. I ended up getting involved because he told my wife it would take a day or two to get the motor. Ace Hardware had the brushes.
