Farm Gate Lock.

Farm Gate Lock.

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11 October 2026 at 19:16 #868972
Grizzly bear
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11 October 2026 at 19:22 #868976
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I thought that was a nice piece of engineering.

I failed to add that to the pictures, because it wasn’t obvious where I could type.

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11 October 2026 at 22:45 #869008
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That is a neat design!

A lot of farm gates use a bolt held in the locked position by a strong spring, making manipulating even harder when as seems inevitable the hinge-side gate-post sags and lowers the bolt below the hole in its post.

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11 October 2026 at 22:59 #869009
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Typical of a device designed by someone who never actually uses one A million gates including mine with the same trivial mistake of a small hole as the target. A few moments thought would make the hole a vertical slot to allow for the long term sag or seasonal movement. I’ve been meaning to modify mine for decades.
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