I hate people who don't shut gates!!!

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GETS RIGHT ON MY WICK!!!

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You have clearly opened the gate to go through it, so why is it impossible to shut again behind you?!!
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Drives me absolutely insane especially when there is a chance a pony could escape (electric fence gateway) and i have reminded them to keep it shut properly and they still don't shut it properly - i have to wonder whether they are doing it on purpose
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I get off if I have to. On Tue I had an accident with a gate whereby I opened it a little, asked my horse to walk forwards so I could push it further open and she bolted through it. Unfortunately for me it was one that had a big metal bit sticking out of it and as a result I have a chunk missing out of my knee, it's twice it's usual size and a very pretty purple colour.
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It was absolute agony. Yet I dismounted, shut the gate, remounted and rode home using only one leg.
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That sounds really painful!!!
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The situations i'm talking about don't even involve people being mounted!

Once, a few months ago, all the field gates were left open and the gate to the road was left open so the pony who escapes under leccy fencing gates, just had to duck under run through a couple of fields and he could have been out on the road. I went to shut some of them only for them to be left open again 10mins later
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i think some people just don't notice what they are doing. i have watched people walk through my field and leave gate open and wander off chatting and laughing and they seem completely oblivious to whats going on around them. i have to rush out and close the gate in case the ponies notice, drives me potty too
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Even some farmers have done it which really surprises me but shows me how ppl just don't see the risks. Bet they wouldnt like it if i let their cows onto the road
 
Gosh that's really dangerous, I'd go nuts. Especially if there's livestock that could get loose. I'll admit, sometimes I'll leave a gate open on a bridlepath if I'm not going far or I can't shut it mounted (my horse isn't the best at shutting gates) but I always always check there's no livestock around.

I don't know what I'd do if someone left the field gates open, I'm panicky enough leaving it open for 2 seconds to get my horse out, I'm always shouting at OH to shut it quick, he thinks I'm nuts as the other horses are about 3 acres away and not even looking in our direction
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we once had a phone call to tell us our youngstock had escaped and were running round the village. Turned out a delivery driver had used our field as a cut through to avoid going down a narrow lane and left both gates open. Que ages trying to catch 2 half wild native colts and a mistreated pony mare!
 
We had 150 dairy youndstock out on the road the other day because tw*t left the gate open. We have since taken it upon ourselves to not allow people to use the footpaths that run over our land.
 
Um, you know that's not legal, right?
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I was p!ssed of the other day, was walking with the dog, went onto a footpath through a wide open gate, got all the way across the field and was confronted with two cows in the field. Good job they were on the far side as they could easily have wandered off and the lane led onto a busy main road
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Although actually I think these two may have been escapees as there was a whole herd in the next field and just these two on their own, so did wonder if they had staged an escape bid!

Anyway, we ended turning back anyway and shut the gate on the way out.
 
Rosiie, that is indeed illegal, but there is a way around it, if your gates are the small type (about 3ft across). Hang a chain from the opening edge of the gate, the the hanging post, with a heavy weight in the middle, on the inside of the gate (so that as you PUSH open the gate, the weight and chain are on your side and the chain straightens as you push). When you let the gate go, the weight will pull the gate closed. Even if it doesn't lock, the gate is weighted shut.

I saw this on a bridleway gate on one of my routes. It's a genius and very simple idea!
 
If they're big gates, you could try putting a chain right at the bottom, so the gate will open wide enough for people to get through and step over the chain but not wide enough for any stock to escape?
 
+1, if I was a farmer, I wouldn't let anyone touch my gates - they would be padlocked and barbed wire! But I'd put a bit of wood for people to climb over the fence, with a notice on the gate explaining why the gate is now closed.
 
In the Peak District quite often they leave a gap at the side of the gate too little for stock to get through and lock the gate shut - that seems to work quite well too. Often they have drystone walls which I guess lend themselves to that quite well though.
 
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