Hi guys, great thread, big fan of gates. And I’ll tell you for why:
When I was a lad, I’d go out with my Dad ‘bird ringing’. He’s an ornithologist you see and we were doing a survey of Barn Owls across Kintyre.
My favourite part (other than climbing around roofing in derelict farmyard barns) was always opening the gates.
I loved how every farm/farmer would have their own particular way of locking the gates. All sorts of different clever little mechanisms.
They were like these nice little simple puzzles I had to solve so we could get the car through and ‘unlock’ the next part of the adventure.
They were good times with me Dad. 