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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Moel on May 08, 2014, 10:27:49 pm
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Grrrrr Fuming
Just settled down with beer and a book after a heavy afternoon spent putting up stock fencing and hanging gates, when Mrs Moel says "where are the lambs?"
Look out the window to a deserted field and a field gate laying flat on the floor......then remembered earlier today a delivery man from next door was struggling to reverse down the track we share with our neighbours, he came up the field and asked if he could use the field entrance to turn round.
No problem, I said, just give me a shout if you need my help reversing and please close the gate when you are done, didnt think anything else of it (busy trying to hang a gate with the 'help' of my two year old). Glanced down later van gone and the gate was shut.
After a fun hour with the torch, lambs located and caught.......went back to the gate and the idiot had lifted it off it's hinges and just rested it between the posts.....just waiting for a feisty lamb to hit it....cue another 30 mins of single handed grunting and levering before it was lifted back on the hinges.
Fuming!
Why don't some people just think, or even ask!
Rant over!
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don't you just hate how they never want to go back on the crooks!!!
stupid van drivers....
hint though, when hanging gates put the top crook on upside down then the gate can't be lifted off prevents strong animals (pigs and cattle) lifting them off. Oh and slows down thieving humans as well...
whenever i hang gates top crook is upside down unless there is a really good reason not too!!!
glad you found all your lambs :-)
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Cheers
Absolutely agree about the Top crook upside down thing...... Ironically had done this as a theft deterrent on the gates I hung today, but this one gate off the track is narrow and in an awkward spot so the gate has to come off its crooks for access ever so often ....... Might try to use a die to cut a thread on the top of the crook and stock a locking nut on it as a reversible fix?
Yep glad I found the lambs so all is well!
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or easier drill a small hole 6-8mm through the pin and put a small nut and bolt through it, just enough to make someone think, am i supposed to do this!!!
good luck
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Great idea, much easier than using a die, will get the HSS bits out tommorow
Thanks
Moel
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What a pain. Makes you wonder where some people were when brains were being handed out.
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Karma!
Passed the same delivery driver today on the lane.
Struggling to change a tyre.
On a very muddy verge.
In the rain.
Did I stop?
Only to offer some 'helpful tips' from the comfort of my car.
PS - Also gave him some concise 'belief system realignment' about shutting gates!
Felt much better
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:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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:roflanim: good for you
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:roflanim: :roflanim: so rarely do we ever get the chance!