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Closing Footpaths and bridleways
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<blockquote data-quote="Al R" data-source="post: 7115946" data-attributes="member: 7565"><p>Got quite a few of those Bristol gates and their perfect. 1 block of land has the York gates as it’s a bridle way and they are horrendous! Too many hinge points so go slack very quick and the bolts are rusted solid within 2 years here. They are always being left open, now when I graze that block this time of year I tend to leave all of the York gate’s open so they have the whole block which isn’t ideal but better than having loads of groups mixing. The amount of people I see walk through gates and just walk off and don’t check that the gate has shut properly would be over 2-3 a day that I witness myself and I don’t go near a lot of the gates, we’ve always got to assume that all gates are open when turning stock into fields. We’ve got to check all of the gates and tie/padlock all we need to before the group of sheep enter.</p><p></p><p>Out of 110 fields at this time of year only 6/7 don’t have footpaths in. I had 6 kissing gates on the cliffs lifted a few weeks ago and 580 ewes mixed that were almost 4 mile apart. Fortunately they were all the same ewes but definitely besides the point.</p><p></p><p>where I have some Bristol gates I’ve padlocked the main gate so pedestrians can still use the small self closing gate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al R, post: 7115946, member: 7565"] Got quite a few of those Bristol gates and their perfect. 1 block of land has the York gates as it’s a bridle way and they are horrendous! Too many hinge points so go slack very quick and the bolts are rusted solid within 2 years here. They are always being left open, now when I graze that block this time of year I tend to leave all of the York gate’s open so they have the whole block which isn’t ideal but better than having loads of groups mixing. The amount of people I see walk through gates and just walk off and don’t check that the gate has shut properly would be over 2-3 a day that I witness myself and I don’t go near a lot of the gates, we’ve always got to assume that all gates are open when turning stock into fields. We’ve got to check all of the gates and tie/padlock all we need to before the group of sheep enter. Out of 110 fields at this time of year only 6/7 don’t have footpaths in. I had 6 kissing gates on the cliffs lifted a few weeks ago and 580 ewes mixed that were almost 4 mile apart. Fortunately they were all the same ewes but definitely besides the point. where I have some Bristol gates I’ve padlocked the main gate so pedestrians can still use the small self closing gate. [/QUOTE]
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