gate and fence bending/building equipment

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Hi I am new to this website. I am learning how to went throu the union  I am in and i am interested in making fence and gates on the side with my "skill"I dont find much info about it on line i was just wondering if any one would be able to tell me the equipment i would need to make the designs and bend pipe/tube and flat bar for the design.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks,           Abbas
Reply:Well, it all depends on how far you wanna take it- its like in hot rodding, where they say how fast you go depends on how much money you have.Its similar with tools- with better, more expensive equipment, you can do bigger materials, more accurately, and better looking.But a lot can be done with cheapo chinese stuff-Grizzly tools and Harbor Freight both sell some cheap, small benders and twisters that will get you started on small material-http://www.grizzly.com/products/H3184http://www.grizzly.com/products/G7153http://www.grizzly.com/catalog/2007/Main/590http://www.metalbendingtool.com/index.htmlhttp://www.shopoutfitters.com/http://www.bossbendersusa.com/http://www.rolxtools.com/or some better, higher quality hand bending machines-http://www.americanbender.com/http://www.hossfeldbender.com/http://www.jd2.com/and then, the pricey, powered models-http://www.g-glaser.de/seiten/start.htmhttp://www.heboe.com/http://www.eaglebendingmachines.com/http://www.usahebo.com/You can get the Nomma magazine, which is all about this stuff, and has ads from all the companies, without joining Nomma-http://www.nomma.org/index.cfm