Here's some pics of the finished V Mesh fence in Parker Texas. We didn't want to get too crazy with the gate. So I did a little dressage silhouette in a rolled piece of quarter by three bar stock.
Here's a gate latch I use on occasions. It's a pain in the butte to make and so I don't do it often. Also if the gate is left open or closed for long periods the through bolt has a tendancy to bind to the pipe retainers via mother rust. It might look like one shoe but there's two. A padlock fits over them so the decoration is in fact function over form.
The two shoe assembly also is a viable gate unlocked or locked indicator. If you can see two shoes, the gate's unlocked.
I hate silhouettes. It's like using cast aluminum filagree in wrought iron. Everyone's doing them and the cad programs hooked up to a plasma do them best. But in this situation I figured it'd work. I went to the internet for a photo, copied it off in black and white on clear plastic. Put it in an overhead projector. It was a nightmare. But when you're not an artist drawing a person on a horse is tough. So between using a piece of soapstone and getting a faint image on dark steel from an overhead projector and then trying to detail it out via looking, making a mark, erasing, making another mark, erasing, well, you get the picture. It wasn't fun. But what put the icing on the cake was my little Esab 625 handier than a pocket on a shirt plasma had the torch burned up by some other folks and I wasn't made aware of it. So I had to cut it out with the good old Victor 9000C cutting torch. Enough to make one generate a couple of dump truck loads of bad words. One of the things I hate about silhouettes is they're always attached to either expanded metal backgrounds or really obvious supports. I do it different.
So I use guarter inch cold rolled bar stock (stiffer than hot rolled) and have it come in from behind the silhouette. This gives the image a floating in space look. When you approach this gate coming down the road from either direction you don't see the supports without doing a double take. That double take is what I'm after. Here's a shot of six hundred feet of fence finished.
That was the south side. Here's the north end, again, six hundred feet. Note how we split the telephone poles. The line is straight but at the front we're in about a foot and at the back a couple of inches. And we touch telephone poles. When it comes to property lines an inch is as good as a mile. It don't matter if you're giving or having either.
Supposedly one of the problems with using V Mesh is you can't roll up and down grade with it. We got lucky with the stuff we got. It rolled up and down just fine.