Multiple access gate lock

Happy hillbily · Jul 26, 2016

I do remember a similar thread a long while back but cant find it.
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When you have different folks needing access to one piece of property.
Drill enough holes into a rotating plate that equal the number of outfits needing access. Each outfit installs their own lock into a hole. Take your lock out of it's hole on the rotating plate, making room for the rod to slide up through the hole and out of the gate, allowing it to swing open.

TheTallGuy · Jul 26, 2016

Or just use a piece of chain and then a chain of padlocks.

Oat · Jul 26, 2016

clever

I think another idea suggested previously was a chain with several padlocks as links

Mur Huwcun · Jul 26, 2016

TheTallGuy said:
Or just use a piece of chain and then a chain of padlocks.

Unfortunately some numpties (sorry other folks) don't quite get the gist of it and fasten their padlock back to the chain leaving the other padlocks doing nothing!!!

milkloss · Jul 26, 2016

At the end of the day a slitting disc in a cordless grinder would eat that lot like it was cheese. It looks good though, somewhat intimidating for some!

Poorbuthappy · Jul 26, 2016

What's the problem with 1 padlock with multiple keys - 1 for each user? Or a combination?

TheTallGuy · Jul 26, 2016

Mur Huwcun said:
Unfortunately some numpties (sorry other folks) don't quite get the gist of it and fasten their padlock back to the chain leaving the other padlocks doing nothing!!!

The way I have done it a couple of times is short lengths of chain with padlocks joining them. These days I only allow unrestricted access to folk I can trust so it's not an issue.

Poorbuthappy said:
What's the problem with 1 padlock with multiple keys - 1 for each user? Or a combination?

It can get expensive if you need to bar someone - you have to replace the lock and all the keys. Combinations are fine till some joker works it out and then changes the combination!

As for cutting the disc to break in - why bother? Those padlocks wouldn't stand up to a half decent pair of pikey scissors aka bolt croppers!

Andrew · Jul 26, 2016

On some land we graze there is a a very ingenious lock.

Basically the gate has a bit of 2" box welded to it horizontally, overlapping the closer post. It has slots cut in the top and bottom.

The slot is filled with plates that are padlocked, and hook into a C shape on the closer post.

Unlock your padlock, remove the tab, slide the others along to unlatch the gate.

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Gulli · Jul 26, 2016

Combination is surely the easiest. If you want to stop someone then just change the combination and inform the rest of them.
Anther much more expensive option is an electric gate with a gsm sim give out the phone number and add people to the sim so when they call it opens. Add and remove as you please.

TripleSix · Jul 28, 2016

Andrew said:
On some land we graze there is a a very ingenious lock.

Basically the gate has a bit of 2" box welded to it horizontally, overlapping the closer post. It has slots cut in the top and bottom.

The slot is filled with plates that are padlocked, and hook into a C shape on the closer post.

Unlock your padlock, remove the tab, slide the others along to unlatch the gate.

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like this?

Andrew · Jul 28, 2016

TripleSix said:
like this?

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Exactly!

brynseiri · Jul 28, 2016

Mur Huwcun said:
Unfortunately some numpties (sorry other folks) don't quite get the gist of it and fasten their padlock back to the chain leaving the other padlocks doing nothing!!!

Had this problem at Cowlyd reservoir when I was with the water board, several padlocks on one chain, and Npower renewables who viewed it as their lake (they generated a bit of subsidised electric, for us it's the sole source of drinking water from Penmaenmawr to Rhyl so 150,000 people plus) and would always bypass our lock no matter what. All the WW locks were key alike so I cut the chain in several places around the post and added 4 padlocks after the cheeky gits came up to the lake, saw me there so left and locked me in. Childish w4nkers.

Oat · Jul 28, 2016

Mur Huwcun said:
Unfortunately some numpties (sorry other folks) don't quite get the gist of it and fasten their padlock back to the chain leaving the other padlocks doing nothing!!!

can you not make the chain short enough, that the padlocks have to be used as links to make the whole thing long enough to go around the post and gate?

brynseiri · Jul 28, 2016

Oat said:
can you not make the chain short enough, that the padlocks have to be used as links to make the whole thing long enough to go around the post and gate?

Some people can be clever cocks and add bits of chain, only way round it is to snip the chain in the middle and add another lock of your own.

Mur Huwcun · Jul 28, 2016

brynseiri said:
Had this problem at Cowlyd reservoir when I was with the water board, several padlocks on one chain, and Npower renewables who viewed it as their lake (they generated a bit of subsidised electric, for us it's the sole source of drinking water from Penmaenmawr to Rhyl so 150,000 people plus) and would always bypass our lock no matter what. All the WW locks were key alike so I cut the chain in several places around the post and added 4 padlocks after the cheeky gits came up to the lake, saw me there so left and locked me in. Childish w4nkers.

It's National Grid, gas company and water board that has access to our fields aswell so we have multiple padlocks!!!

ORRA LOON · Jul 30, 2016

At a recent demo day at our local lndustrial supplier, we were shown a padlock that works with Bluetooth , you add people's phones to it and it allows them to open the padlock. If you wanted to stop them you just deleated them and that was it. It would also tell the padlocks owner who was using it and the time it was used etc. It was about £60.

TripleSix · Jul 30, 2016

ORRA LOON said:
At a recent demo day at our local lndustrial supplier, we were shown a padlock that works with Bluetooth , you add people's phones to it and it allows them to open the padlock. If you wanted to stop them you just deleated them and that was it. It would also tell the padlocks owner who was using it and the time it was used etc. It was about £60.

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http://www.masterlock.com/bluetooth

ORRA LOON · Jul 30, 2016

TripleSix said:
Trendy

http://www.masterlock.com/bluetooth

That's the 1

Boysground · Jul 30, 2016

Had a straw truck phone up one day to ask which field to go to. Said I'd come up to the farm and open the gate for him. No bother he says ive just cut the chain with my battery grinder. I wonder what he thought when he didn't come back.

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Gerbert · Jul 30, 2016

padlocks, meh
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