Thanks! I've read several good tips on how to
open and close the gates. I have used the one of leveraging with my
arm, pulling the gate instead of trying to "push" it closed. My favorite
ones though are the ones that are fitted just right, and they're easy to close -
and open.
Carry an extra lead line with you, one with a
snap big enough to put the rope through. Run the lead line around the
stationary post and the gate end pole, slip the end of the rope through the
lead line snap and pull the "lasso" smaller. It will close the gap
between the two posts with much less effort, and you'll have a free hand to
secure the gate.
ET Wisconsin
From: "Sky Ranch" <skyranch@xxxxxxxx> Date:
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:50:03 -0700 To: "Kearby, Kate G Civ 748
CBSG/OM" <Kate.Kearby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [RC]
opening gates?
The gates I encounter are the kind
you have to get off the horse to open and close -- they're made out of barb
wire and they collapse. And it takes all my strength to open and close
(especially close) some of them. I can't stand barb wire gates, but
that's what mostly is around. I think once I encountered a pipe gate
that could actually be opened while on a horse, in the nat'l forest.
Most are "gap gates" made from barbed wire.
Carla Richardson Colorado
----- Original Message ----- From: Kearby, Kate G
Civ 748 CBSG/OM <mailto:Kate.Kearby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Sent: Wednesday,
November 29, 2006 7:51 AM Subject: [RC] opening
gates?
If I had a horse that wouldn't
open a gate and stand there nice and hold it for a dozen horses if need be
WHILE I'M MOUNTED, I'd be doing some serious training before I left
home or finding another horse! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free
Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.19/556 - Release
Date: 11/28/2006
No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free
Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.3/562 - Release Date:
12/1/2006
