To install a slide gate opener you will need a standard and Phillips screwdriver, an electric drill, wire cutters and a wire stripper, a socket set, and possibly a welder.
Yes, you can buy a slide gate opener at Home Depot. It costs $1129 and it ships free. It's urgently out of stock in store but, you can get it online.
One can find and purchase a sliding gate opener on websites like Whole Sale Gate Opener, Amazon, eBay, Lift Master, Sears, Slide Share or Sliding Gate Operators.
Mighty Mule Gate Opener comes with plenty of instructions and numbers to call for assistance in installation. Many customers has found their product very easy to install on their own.
It depends, are you installing a gate opener, garage opener or a opener for a house door? What make and model is it, where is it being located, what will it need for power, what will it need for structure?
Slide gate openers open slide gates - as the name suggests. They can be manual or electronic, can be purchased from a number of home renovation-type retailers and are easily installed. For more information, you can see this article: http://www.betterhomeguide.com/sliding-gate-openers-535.html
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Get someone who does to open it for you.
They can be dangerous but you can minimize that danger by going with the right type of opener. The Amazing Slider Guide posts stand a full 18 inches back from the slide gate which largely eliminates the potentially dangerous issue of a moving gate rolling past stationary pinch roller posts only inches from the gate. http://www.amazinggates.com/Sliding_Gates_s/43.htm
The difference is that a sluice gate is made out of cast iron while a slide gate isn't.
There are lots of places an automatic gate opener could be purchased. Perhaps best would be to get a new one from the same store where the automation, the engine that opens the gate, was bought. Some gates have specific signals and proprietary systems. If the gate in question is more standardized, an all purpose gate opener could be found on Amazon or eBay. The same places might have an opener of the same brand or even model as the gate's automation system. The last scenario would be the safest bet, failing to get a new opener from those who installed the gate.
A Swing gate opener can be found at any local store that specializes in construction and renovations. Examples of stores like this would be RONA or Home DEPOT.