Ever have a serial gate jumper?

[4hfarms]

Sounds funny but I'm not referring to a bovine. So as I rotate the cows go through gates. I noted in my book about the sagging gate the other day. Then yesterday I found another. Today I found two more. So I started to inspect them. The gates are bent at the second and third bar from the ground. All lower gate hinges are loose. Looks as if someone bounced on the gate, 5 of them all together! The cows haven't been in this field for over a month. It wasn't them. I used the gate 2 days ago when I prepared for the cows to go into the field, no problems.

WTF! who does this stupid petty shift? I hate my neighbors.

 

[SBMF 2015]

Probably kids.
I would have got my A$$ handed to me by my grandpas if they saw me climbing over a gate on the nonhinge end.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Heavy duty gates on solid posts and an average sized person can climb either end of the gate without a problem.

 

[Brute 23]

Cell camera

 

[Silver]

Electricity

 

[Silver]

Actually upon further consideration I believe both a camera and electricity would be appropriate for this situation. And a TikTok account.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Round here we either sell the gate jumpers or kill em and eat em......

Might not work for you tho.

 

[Silver]

Round here we either sell the gate jumpers or kill em and eat em......

Might not work for you tho.

Man, scary place to be a kid!

 

[greybeard]

Man, scary place to be a kid!

nah, it's just Oklahoma

 

[CowboyRam]

Sale barn

 

[Lucky]

I've never inspected my gates but did catch my nephew riding the gate while jumping up and down on it. I think he still does it when I'm not around though. Our gates are all beat up from truck bumpers so no use looking at them to close.

 

[cowman82]

wrap some barb wire around them and spot weld it.

 

[Twisted]

I have more issues with lazy relatives who push the gates open with their bumpers
Pisses me off to no end to find a bent gate and knowing who did it.

 

[puzzled in oregon]

Horses enjoy rubbing their hind ends on gates. It took the fun right out of them doing that when I
hooked a hot wire to the gate. I'm sure that would work in other situations.

 

[4hfarms]

Only reason it make much difference is because I bought them new a couple years ago when I fenced the pasture. I cleared that pasture after the tornado that took a couple thousand feet of back line out of service due to trees. Fence is a running joke here.