How many gates are enough?

I counted the gates on our block today. How many would be enough? Well. I guess you need one for each hole in a fence you don’t want chickens or dogs to go through, but you need to go through yourself at some time. The current count is 15.

Some are commercial gates, unaltered since we moved in. Some are commercial gates fitted, or modified to suit our needs. Some are manufactured on site from scrounged materials. Others are “bush gates”, made in existing fences from the fence itself.

Here’s the tour;

Gate 1 – entry gate to garden, hinges moved from original side, hence the added brace

Gate 2 – commercial gate fitted into dog run fence, and now part-time chook run too!

Gate 3 – bush gate with fancy brass latch!

Gate 4 – bush gate in espalier fruit tree enclosure fence

Gate 4 – twisted wire latch on broom handle gate

Gate 5 – scrounged verandah railing with lattice extension for flying chooks

Gate 5 – custom turned hinge pivot, bright steel rusts quickly!

Gates 6 & 7 – is the hinged one a gate or a door? the other just drops into place

Gates 8 & 9 – more scrounged railings tied to posts with electrical flex as hinges

Gate 10 – a favourite, the smaller tube is a perfect fit for the larger tube, so a part of the railing is cut off and set in the ground to act as a hinge pivot

Gate 10 – part of the railing is fixed to provide a stop for the gate

Gate 11 & 12 – bush gates with star pickets hooked to fixed post

Gate 13 – commercial gate for chicken run to dog run connection

Gate 14 – bush gate to rasberry patch

Gate 14 – rusty bolt latch, patent pending

Gate 15 – side or back entry to garden

How many gates is enough? 15, until we need another one!

Brian.