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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Quayle" data-source="post: 75924917" data-attributes="member: 410020"><p>I was once assigned to make some discarded old metal bed "headboards" into gates on the boar pens at a swine breeding facility. Since we had metal gate posts (railroad iron) it was simple to weld to, so I invented a way to make both hinge and latch on each side of the gate, so it could open either left or right, by bending long cold roll steel rod for the hinge pin AND handle; pulling the rod up an inch or so by the handle would unpin the hinge making it the latch. And slamming the gate onto the ramps I welded to the post would make the rod fall back down into its place as a hinge. Both sides were then hinges again, which of course means the gate couldn't swing. Pulling up on the handles on both sides, you could remove the gate for repair or replacement. The whole business was done out of reach of the hogs noses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Quayle, post: 75924917, member: 410020"] I was once assigned to make some discarded old metal bed "headboards" into gates on the boar pens at a swine breeding facility. Since we had metal gate posts (railroad iron) it was simple to weld to, so I invented a way to make both hinge and latch on each side of the gate, so it could open either left or right, by bending long cold roll steel rod for the hinge pin AND handle; pulling the rod up an inch or so by the handle would unpin the hinge making it the latch. And slamming the gate onto the ramps I welded to the post would make the rod fall back down into its place as a hinge. Both sides were then hinges again, which of course means the gate couldn't swing. Pulling up on the handles on both sides, you could remove the gate for repair or replacement. The whole business was done out of reach of the hogs noses. [/QUOTE]
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