Do you lock your field gate when most of the field is electric fenced?

[SpruceRI]

I always have done, without giving it further thought until someone pointed out that all it would take to steal my ponies would be a pair of scissors!!

Horrible thought!

Further to that, that most galvanised gates these days are on 2 giant screw pins, so if if one end is locked, you just unscrew the other end and hey presto - a pointless £100 chain and lock!

My friend is quite right!!

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Yes.............won't stop a thief, but will stop someone just opening it for a laugh!!!

 

[LCobby]

But you would have more than just electric fence between horses and a public road?
and chain and lock both ends of the gate

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Nope, double strands of fieldguard and wooden posts.

 

[Cahill]

electrify the gate too

a prickly hawthorne or blackthorne is best.
the weakest part of the field is the padlock n chain.

i think freeze marking is the thing.

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Funnily enough it was accidentily electrified when the tape somehow managed to touch it..................It was only noticed when a rather unfortunate Labrador cocked his leg up the metal gate post!!!!

Poor thing ran off howling!!!!

 

[Serenity087]

I had electric fence running over the gate. All it took was a plastic bracket screwed to each gate post!

Have to admit, electric fencing alone sounds a bit dangerous. I'd never have nothing more than two strands of tape between my horses and the outside world, I had enough smash down post and rail with electric tape along it!

 

[soph21]

Both main gates are padlocked on our yard, at the bottom of my field there is a gate on to the road so thats got barbed wire around the top and a padlock, the horses cant get right up to the gate cos I hate people feeding them over it, I once caught school kids teasing Bear with grass so he bit one of them! Which he never does, so bloody good on him!

 

[DreamerII]

Have double electric fence tape (which at present is not electrified but will be as of today as the people are coming to sort all the fencing).

Gate is not locked, but we are set quite a way back from the road on a private farm and have never had any problems (touch wood).

 

[sar1]

My gates are chained and padlocked both ends. One hinge of the pair is upside down so you can't just lift the gate and chain off the gatepost.

 

[soph21]

Yeah ours are chained on the hinge side too!

 

[SpruceRI]

My gate that has the screw pinned ends isn't chained at that end, there's little point - undo the nut and lift the gate and chain over the post. The gate post is metal so can't even hammer a lump of wood to it to make it too wide for the chain to slip over.

I don't just have electric fencing between my horses and the road. Farm gates/ hedges all round and a footpath that goes onto another farmers land plus open woodland....