Choosing the Right Hinge

Choosing the Right Hinge

  Modern Fence Technologies hinges are designed to be the strongest, most durable hinges of their type on the market. In order to assist you in the selection of the proper hinge for your application, we offer our Proportional Load Charts, that display the relative sizes and capacities of the hinges we make. 

  Choosing the right hinge is made easy, by having the weight, width, and the measurement between points on the gate where you will mount your hinges, and referring to the handy Proportional Load Charts available to registered users of the Modern Fence Technologies website, www.mftfence.com.

  ***Caution***These charts are compiled from test data based on Modern Fence Technologies' hinges.  The information contained in them will not apply to any other manufacturer's products,

 as they do not use the same quality materials and processes to make their products.

  To determine if one of our hinges will support a proposed gate, find the chart referenced in the hinge description on our website, then compare the measurements of the width, across the top of the chart, and the height*, or distance between hinges, on the side of the chart, and connect those lines across the body of the chart.  If the weight of your gate is the same or less than the number on the chart, the hinge will support your gate.

  You can see a video of this in action here.

* Note: For strength, hinges should be mounted as far apart as gate design will allow.