all right today we're going to install a gate spring it's going to go right up about here it's going to attach up here on the top part it's going to come across and go down and fasten down onto the gate and what that will do is that will hopefully allow the gate to close as people enter so they don't have to close it okay the first thing we're going to do is we're going to mark some holes out on the on the post here and then also a couple down on the gate we'll put two screws on the top two screws on the bottom once those are attached we'll put a little pin in here torque it and when it's locked we got the right tension we'll be done so first we're going to tap a couple of holes and now we'll insert the screws you it's not tight now but we'll tighten it at the end next what we'll do is we'll mark the placement on the bottom and for this we're not going to use a nail we're going to screw it in because we don't want to knock out any of the of the gate we can go ahead and make the drill holes now okay now we can go ahead and drill in the two screws and we'll tighten up the ones on top okay I've moved this a little bit to test it before I come back and continue the video but this is installed nicely it's mounted on the top mounted on the bottom there's some tension here on the spring so it's not loose and shaking in the wind as it stands right now if you open or close the gate nothing will happen because this is in a neutral position so what we're going to do is we're going to basically unspring it we're going to try to go counter counter a bit normal tension here and what we do is we take this little rod in this little pit this little other I don't know what it's called I think they call it a capstan or something but it's a little piece of metal and we're going to torque this and then put the that little pipe in there and we'll torque it one more time and move the pipe and then we should have enough tension on the gate for it to close nicely we'll take a look see what it looks like so here we go here's the test and it's a success if there's any wind it's probably not going to work too well but as long as there's there's no wind it should be fine and that's how you do a gate spring