Despite firey distractions, unplanned moving of the junk pile, raking away a few loads of leaves and a broken angle grinder, the gate got finished today.
Which is good, because we don't need a bunch of deer messing up the freshly planted garden.
Apart from some fluxcore wire, no new parts on this gate whatsoever, everything is salvaged, including the fence, which I mended like a fisherman's wire net.