Do you ever have a few annoying things that you keep meaning to get done, but they are low priority items and never get scratched off the list? I do. Today was a day for taking care of a few odds and ends like this that I wanted to fix. The 12 foot gate leading into the pasture has sagged over the years. Now when I open it to bring the round bales to the cows, it drags in the dirt. I have to pick it up when pushing it or it digs a trench in the ground and is difficult to open.
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| Digging a trench |
Should be an easy fix. I had an old wheel in a box in the barn that was going to fix the dragging gate problem.
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| Wheel for the Gate |
After putting the gate up on a brick and measuring exactly where the wheel needed to go, I used my drill to drill a hole in the pipe frame of the gate.
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| Drilling |
For the gate wheel's axle, I used a long bolt with washers and a nut. I ran the bolt through the wheel and then on through the hole I had drilled in the gate frame and tightened the nut.
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| Tightening it down |
And that's all there is to it. Now instead of lifting and pushing and struggling with the gate, all I have to to is give it a little kick and it glides open.
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| The new wheeled gate |
Ah, the simple little things that make life easier.
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