Worst gate !

[balerman]

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

In Devon we call that a Cornish gate,or a Somerset gate.

 

[betweenthelines]

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.

Talking of pallets the boy came home the other day with half a dozen plastic pallets. He said a local haulier was "giving away dozens" as their yard was choc-a-block.

No sooner had I mentioned "make a good garden fence" than OH started ranting something about "turning the place into a bloody tip already"

So much for recycling!

 

[primmiemoo]

In Devon we call that a Cornish gate,or a Somerset gate.

My farming family call that an Australian gate. V useful around the yards when the barb is replaced with stock fence.

 

[Wellytrack]

Most gates locally here are Kerry gates.



Gates you have to Kerry.

 

[Bury the Trash]

To any 20 yrs or so olds reading this, concrete in steel gateposts, preferably galvanised and hang a galvanised gate .You'll on ly need to do it once.
And It Will still be swinging and latching nicely ( with only a perioodic adjustment hangings with yer adjustable, ) when you come to retirement.
The cost/ time taken to do it will soon be repaid with easy quick opening and closing/ time saved.


Use wood and you will be replacing them more than once.

 

[Courier]

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.

To any 20 yrs or so olds reading this, concrete in steel gateposts, preferably galvanised and hang a galvanised gate .You'll on ly need to do it once.
And It Will still be swinging and latching nicely ( with only a perioodic adjustment hangings with yer adjustable, ) when you come to retirement.
The cost/ time taken to do it will soon be repaid with easy quick opening and closing/ time saved.


Use wood and you will be replacing them more than once.

Anything substantial around here is likely to get the

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[Bury the Trash]

Anything substantial around here is likely to get the

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These units are complete equipment packages for oxy/fuel welding & cutting.

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treatment when scrap is over £100

OK then,
Use concrete posts, and wooden gates then.only thing is then they musnt be knocked with machinery as there's not the tensile strength of steel of course.

 

[DeeGee]

To any 20 yrs or so olds reading this, concrete in steel gateposts, preferably galvanised and hang a galvanised gate .You'll on ly need to do it once.
And It Will still be swinging and latching nicely ( with only a perioodic adjustment hangings with yer adjustable, ) when you come to retirement.
The cost/ time taken to do it will soon be repaid with easy quick opening and closing/ time saved.


Use wood and you will be replacing them more than once.

Would agree with you, but with the caveat that you make them plenty wide enough, because in ten year’s time it ain’t going to be easy to alter them like it is with pulling out old wooden posts.

 

[shearerlad]

Not my doing but dad’s, emptying a load of dung, came back and told me he had caught the gate but “it will straighten out” View attachment 918131

Still in use with a wooden flake gate to fill the gap of the squint bit

 

[primmiemoo]

Would agree with you, but with the caveat that you make them plenty wide enough, because in ten year’s time it ain’t going to be easy to alter them like it is with pulling out old wooden posts.

In 10 years time, swarms of little robots ~ MF35 sized ~ will be doing most fieldwork. Gateways only need to allow for them in order to be futureproof.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Would agree with you, but with the caveat that you make them plenty wide enough, because in ten year’s time it ain’t going to be easy to alter them like it is with pulling out old wooden posts.

Yes allow wide enough of course.
But Digging the lump of concrete out with the post in still in tact is easy enough with the excavator that everyone now uses so effectively.
We have even dug new holes and placed the lump and post in and hung a gate from it without any further new concrete, does mean getting the hole shape the same tho, skillfull use of the digger.

 

[essexpete]

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

Called a poor man's around here or prairie.

 

[Nithsdale]

To any 20 yrs or so olds reading this, concrete in steel gateposts, preferably galvanised and hang a galvanised gate .You'll on ly need to do it once.
And It Will still be swinging and latching nicely ( with only a perioodic adjustment hangings with yer adjustable, ) when you come to retirement.
The cost/ time taken to do it will soon be repaid with easy quick opening and closing/ time saved.


Use wood and you will be replacing them more than once.

No matter how wide you make the gates before concreting in the steel...


Some wee scroat will hank them with a silage trailer, f**king the whole job. Seen it too many times

 

[Nearly]

 

[Kevtherev]

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!

With the internet being the norm they are a rare find nowadays !!

 

[HasthorpeGrange]

All tied with second hand string

 

[Wigeon]

In 10 years time, swarms of little robots ~ MF35 sized ~ will be doing most fieldwork. Gateways only need to allow for them in order to be futureproof.
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Ok, I'll replace all my gates with micro gates as they are the future, but what am I supposed to do with all the bits I cut out of the electric poles so I can fit the sprayer boom through? Theyll all be the wrong height for the robots!

 

[Cowslip]

Not done much contracting for a few years but today came across this !
Got me thinking I don't miss the getting to a farmers field and being first through with rake and trying to open a Contraption of a gap filler .
Either not hung
Tied up with string !
Not wide enough !
Some fence across the top at cab height!
Falling to bits
Overhanging undergrowth branches etc!
I think some farmer think tractors are still the height of a 35x!View attachment 965413

Think that could be our gateway, fed up with gates being pinched so all our gates look like this now, funnily enough they don't want to steal these.

 

[primmiemoo]

 

[Y Fan Wen]

No matter how wide you make the gates before concreting in the steel...


Some wee scroat will hank them with a silage trailer, fudgeing the whole job. Seen it too many times

Defender towing an Ivor through a pair of 12 foot gates! No, he doesn't have a smart phone.