There is no point scrimping on steel for cattle gates imho.
I use 50mm box by 4mm or 47mm (or whatever it is) round hollow section (i.e. pipe, but that is more expensive if that is what you ask for)
To sheet I would use box.
I sheet withe 9mm stockboard but that can change shape in the sun and needs solid and multiple bolting, tec screws aren't enough I have found.
Sheeting with 1.5 or 2 mm steel is good, galvanising can be compromised by fastening plated sheets to black frames of course, I don't use this method for that reason.
I don't bother to galvanise my gates as they are heavy enough duty - I have that extra mm of steel to increase lifetime of the gate and to ease the future repair/modification of the gate.
I use 100 x 75 x 8 mm angle for the hinge end, 50 x 20 mm strip for the hinge tags, drilled with 25mm holes for the male part and 26 mm for the swinging (female) part.
The clapping end is just 50 x 10 mm flat.
Diagonals are silly, any gate over 12 feet I weld a 50x 10 flat halfway along.
I once made some for a beef fattener. he asked if the top 3 foot of an 8' gate could be vertical bars so the buggers didn't break their legs as they went over it.
TBF by the time they were clambering over an eight foot gate they would probably be launching themselves off off 4ft of FYM.....
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