First off, as a machinist and toolmaker I have worked at metal fabrication all of my adult life. I purchased this gate to please my wife. I figured it would be some cheap flimsy pile, that would get her off my back. Boy was I wrong. It showed up in two separate wooden crates. One small for the posts, and another for the two gate sections, I could lift neither one. I unboxed everything, and was just able to carry each piece by itself to a suitable location. Everything was there undamaged including installation instructions. I showed it to my neighbor, who guessed I paid as much as six or seven thousand for it. Don't waste your time looking elsewhere, this is the real thing. Heavy guage steel all welded construction.