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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1081150" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Bump gates used to be all over West Texas when I was a kid, but back then, cars and trucks had real bumpers--that actually stuck out from the front of the vehicles. Those old steel gates were fairly simple contraptions--If I remember correctly, 2 gates hinged and came together in the center of the roadway--you 'bumped' a spring loaded wooden panel square with your bumper, which unlocked a catch and also swung the gates open. You drove thru quickly and the gates were hung from tall posts with a guy wire. As the gates swung, the wire wrapped 1/2 way around the post, which had the effect of shortening the cable, and it naturally wanted to unwind swing the gates back to center. When the did, the latch engaged. </p><p></p><p>I haven't seen any of the new fangled PVC gates. Are they made in a similar fashion?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1081150, member: 18945"] Bump gates used to be all over West Texas when I was a kid, but back then, cars and trucks had real bumpers--that actually stuck out from the front of the vehicles. Those old steel gates were fairly simple contraptions--If I remember correctly, 2 gates hinged and came together in the center of the roadway--you 'bumped' a spring loaded wooden panel square with your bumper, which unlocked a catch and also swung the gates open. You drove thru quickly and the gates were hung from tall posts with a guy wire. As the gates swung, the wire wrapped 1/2 way around the post, which had the effect of shortening the cable, and it naturally wanted to unwind swing the gates back to center. When the did, the latch engaged. I haven't seen any of the new fangled PVC gates. Are they made in a similar fashion? [/QUOTE]
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