Keep Out

Angelo

lifeinfocus

Great shot. Now the question is - do any of them work?

Earache

Cool! I've never seen that before - and I can't figure out how it works.

Angelo

thanks

not sure if any work or how the contraption would work

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E Colby

Bet it allows entry to multiple people. Each has their own lock and key. We have a similar setup at several of our family ranches.
Cheers,
Colby
PS--Neat capture.

Dogdots

That is so interesting. Definitely means "keep out".

kdog

I see exactly how that works. There's a series of overlapping steel tabs that are locked together which keeps the horizontal bar from sliding to the right to unlock the gate. The far left tab is welded to the gate, and the far right tab is welded to the bar. Remove any lock and it breaks the chain of tabs which allows the bar to slide right, thus unlocking the gate. Clever design!

Nice shot, Angelo.

Cheers,
-joel

Earache

kdog wrote: »

I see exactly how that works. There's a series of overlapping steel tabs that are locked together which keeps the horizontal bar from sliding to the right to unlock the gate. The far left tab is welded to the gate, and the far right tab is welded to the bar. Remove any lock and it breaks the chain of tabs which allows the bar to slide right, thus unlocking the gate. Clever design!

Nice shot, Angelo.

Cheers,
-joel

Brilliant deduction Mr. Holmes!

williaes

I live up in the Texas Panhandle where we have lots of big cattle ranches with lots of oil and gas production on the places. Most of the pipe gates you see across a cattle guard have this type of locking system on them. This allows everyone that needs access into the ranch to have it but also keeps the honest people out. Each lock belongs to some other company or someone that needs into the place. When you unlock one lock it allows the rod to turn up or out and slide backwards to open the gate.

Sometimes you will see a gate with 10-15 locks on it.

Earache

williaes wrote: »

I live up in the Texas Panhandle where we have lots of big cattle ranches with lots of oil and gas production on the places. Most of the pipe gates you see across a cattle guard have this type of locking system on them. This allows everyone that needs access into the ranch to have it but also keeps the honest people out. Each lock belongs to some other company or someone that needs into the place. When you unlock one lock it allows the rod to turn up or out and slide backwards to open the gate.

Sometimes you will see a gate with 10-15 locks on it.

Yeah, I can see that now. I live in ranch-land too here in SoCal, but we always use a chain with multiple padlocks locked together - but as anyone who uses that set-up knows, eventually, someone always goofs it up and locks out one or more of the other locks and the chain ends up getting cut. Angelo's picture depicts an apparent better solution to the problem.