Worst gate !

[Wellytrack]

Barbwire and broken pallet gates are the norm round here. Quite the bonus if you don't tear your trousers or draw blood after handling them.

 

[Red Fred]

Put it on some flat concrete and drive a tractor over it a few times gradually increasing the thickness of a length of thin timber under one end - there will be a stage where the bend becomes unnoticeable.
(The voice of experience!!)

Mrs Fred's lovely stable assistant always parks her 206 in front of the gate when she feeds the horses. Last week, she seems to have fallen asleep in her car, it rolled forward and put a huge bend in the new 15ft gate I put on the yard. I ended up laying it on the ground and driving the Disco over it using various wooden chocks until the bend hardly shows. Trouble is the pikeys will have it now

 

[ARW]

I instinctively lift any gate when I open it, it’s been hard wired through my childhood of opening gates tied with band

 

[Bill dog]

I instinctively lift any gate when I open it, it’s been hard wired through my childhood of opening gates tied with band

I think we’re related !

 

[Kevtherev]

Went to open a gate last year at a place and as I touched it it fell over both posts as well

 

[Sid]

Whether a gate is hung, easy to latch, or in good condition........a contractor will 99/100 not shut it!

 

[AftonShepherd]

Or maybe a spotty teenager in a big tractor went through when he was on Facebook or tiktok or whatever it's called

For someone acting as if they don't know much about it, you've got the spelling spot on!

 

[Robt]

See some gems when out hedgecutting

do you still find grott mags in hedge rows? the Hedgecutter tractor always was the one to choose as a 13 year old corn carter!

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

For someone acting as if they don't know much about it, you've got the spelling spot on!

I'm not aloud on those, I can get in enough bother on her and eBay

 

[willie waver]

i deliberately put my worst gates on the roadside with string. our light fingered friends would have a good one away in no time

 

[Old Boar]

Anyone else got a couple of piano frames wired together as a gate? Heavy enough and lots of sticky out bits to nearly keep pigs in....nearly...

 

[Princess Pooper]

Two strands of barbed wire fastened to stake , loop top and bottom , Dad called it a New Zealand Gate ?

Hosier Gate

 

[Sid]

Hosier Gate

Same as the parlours?


Australian I know calls them Cockies gate,

 

[robs1]

Mrs Fred's lovely stable assistant always parks her 206 in front of the gate when she feeds the horses. Last week, she seems to have fallen asleep in her car, it rolled forward and put a huge bend in the new 15ft gate I put on the yard. I ended up laying it on the ground and driving the Disco over it using various wooden chocks until the bend hardly shows. Trouble is the pikeys will have it now

Which the gate or the lovely assistant ?

 

[Princess Pooper]

Same as the parlours?


Australian I know calls them Cockies gate,

Yes, Hosier's Farming System, up on the Wiltshire Downs with milking bales and cheap and cheerful 'gates.' https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b079m52l

 

[robs1]

Whether a gate is hung, easy to latch, or in good condition........a contractor will 99/100 not shut it!

When we used contractors every gate was opened for them and they were told to leave them that way, used to pee me off when I went contracting that sometimes I had to open and close half a dozen gates to get to a five acre field, is it hard to make peoples life a bit easier and open gates for them

 

[GeorgeK]

The worst gates are the internal ones still residing in between arable fields 30 years after the last stock vacated never to return. They serve no purpose yet you have to get off the tractor, dive into the cleavers and wrestle them open. Once through the gate must be closed again as it protrudes into the cropped area and gets in the way. Every year the header has to come off to squeeze the combine through, but the gate must stay because "What do you want to take it out for, it's a good gate!"

 

[Sid]

When we used contractors every gate was opened for them and they were told to leave them that way, used to pee me off when I went contracting that sometimes I had to open and close half a dozen gates to get to a five acre field, is it hard to make peoples life a bit easier and open gates for them

Gates would be opened for contractors, just close the road gate when done in case stock get into other fields and to deter visitors

 

[robs1]

Gates would be opened for contractors, just close the road gate when done in case stock get into other fields and to deter visitors

Yes that's right, road gate always shut, when in the silage gang no one wanted to be last one out so had to shut the gate or the first in the pub

 

[primmiemoo]

Anyone else got a couple of piano frames wired together as a gate? Heavy enough and lots of sticky out bits to nearly keep pigs in....nearly...

Great for baconers?