Inanda is polo country inside the suburbs — very large stands, several of them effectively smallholdings, with gates a long way from the houses they serve.
Distance decides the job
On an Inanda property the cable run is the significant piece of work, not the motor.
Getting power and signal sixty or a hundred metres to a gate, in conduit and below ground where it crosses anything, is real work. Done properly it lasts; done cheaply it produces intermittent faults that come and go with the weather and cost more to trace than the original job cost to do. On a swing gate, the hinges, posts and arms come under swing gate repairs.
Where a run is genuinely impractical, a GSM intercom removes the problem entirely rather than being a compromise.
More than one entrance
Stands this size usually have a main gate and at least one service or paddock entrance, and the second is frequently untouched for years. Where the fault turns out to be the motor itself, that is ordinary gate motor repair work rather than anything exotic.
An unused gate seizes. Either it will not open when the main entrance is down, or it stopped securing the boundary some time ago. Walking the whole boundary once a year with everything that opens a gate is the single most useful habit on a property like this.
Heavy gates on long runs
The gates are substantial and the runs are long, which puts real emphasis on the track and on matching the motor to the weight.
A unit specified for a standard suburban gate will move one of these and will spend its life overloaded. Slowness is the first symptom and early failure the second. Anything that genuinely cannot wait is handled as an emergency gate repair, at any hour.
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