Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Decent knockers are notoriously hard to find.
Gatepost ideas
- Thread starter Overby
- Start date
- Location
- DD9.
No need to reinvent the wheel. Can you not just use the tried and tested “dad” method of digging the socket by ramming into the ground with the telehandler tines till something breaks or falls off?
You then loosely balance the gatepost almost vertical then hammer down on it with the carriage, again, until something breaks or falls off? Ideally leave the tines on for the post knocking, but unlatched to ensure maximum noise, awkwardness and danger.
This method has served generations of farmers well.
You then loosely balance the gatepost almost vertical then hammer down on it with the carriage, again, until something breaks or falls off? Ideally leave the tines on for the post knocking, but unlatched to ensure maximum noise, awkwardness and danger.
This method has served generations of farmers well.
No easy to find hard to maintain
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Just use one of our holes from the value range worth ten nectar points too.
Not much of a salesperson today pete….
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Where do you find a length of railway track ? ..............................stupid question really, the answer is obvious, you’ve been hanging round with that @Kevtherev too much, he’s a bad influence on you
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Well, my little Welsh wonder, rather than sell one hole to plonk the post into, we could supply two holes to put the hinges into.
- Location
- Ceredigion
I've dug a lot of holes for posts with an old pallet tine in hard ground, push it down a few times with the handler then post presses in easy
not sure you boys will be able to compete now , lidl are selling them, was in there the other day, had a special deal on....... ' btlogobof '
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Do they come with a lifetime warranty?
"Warranted until filled in" said on the box 
would be just right for the job.......
................. "buy two little ones get one big one free "
be quick tho because....... "when they're gone they're gone"
would be just right for the job.......
................. "buy two little ones get one big one free "
be quick tho because....... "when they're gone they're gone"
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sounds about right, here today, gone tomorrow. No thought about continuity of service.
mind you , Wouldn't be the first time the Germans have supplied a few holes around here .
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I have a PTO auger, but when I have used it, it sometimes needs a loader tractor to push it down into the ground as it can just sit there spinning on shale.
Put double gates in for my cousin, one gate post was right next to the gas main, so had to be a bit careful, and we hit a giant granite boulder in the hole, spent over a day on the jack hammer, and in the end cut a bit off the gate post before I concreted it in! I know everyone says don't concrete in, but the rest of the drive was concrete and it would look a bit silly having two areas with compacted hardcore. I wish I had known these rock splitter existed, I bet they could have saved me lots of grief!
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I contacted a couple of people (including Barret's Railway Salvage in Carmarthen) looking for a rail track, no one had any idea where I could get one. I wanted it for the silage shed to support the temporary panels while it was being filled.
- Location
- Yorks
I'll buy the gate post hole and the hinge holes, but I want them fitted in with the price.
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
When your on about railway track for gate post, is old railway sleepers any good, ?
Or what is best to use that lasts a good bit cost wise ?
Or what is best to use that lasts a good bit cost wise ?
To last and to hang perpendicular both ways so the swings the gate reliably and level (hence also the latching is easy reliably for a long time ) for many years to come , Galvanised steel. concreted in with a mound up to ...and good seal at ground level.
I cant live with droopy draggy gates and hard awkward latching botchups...
I cant live with droopy draggy gates and hard awkward latching botchups...
My sympathies over the broken arm, just recently had the cast off mine. I'm afraid that nearly every post that I've concreted in over the years had had to be dug out, I would drive an rsj or box barrier if I could.
what have you concreted in that is not lasting? driving in an rsj ? 
all sounds like bs to me..
can't remember when that was put in.
theres yer railway line ... cut with a nine inch angle grinder and hangings welded on with a an 180 amp oil cooled welder
...put in ,must be about 40 yr ago ,i bet it will be there long after im dead and gone...
been doing several recently .lot dearer doing them atm though all replacing wood of various types.
all sounds like bs to me..
can't remember when that was put in.
theres yer railway line ... cut with a nine inch angle grinder and hangings welded on with a an 180 amp oil cooled welder
...put in ,must be about 40 yr ago ,i bet it will be there long after im dead and gone...
been doing several recently .lot dearer doing them atm though
all replacing wood of various types.
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