. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . lighter and freer on the hinges. The end of the bar itself,(a, fig. 101,> with the massive latch h, (the latter only rising as the gateshuts, and dropping again to secure it,) constitute a very strong inclined plane c, which is faced witli thick sheet-tin, (figs. 101 and102,) is added only to facilitate fastening when the gate sags, as allwooden gates will, but this less than others, because there is no weightwhatever straining the hinges, except %vhiJe the gate is open. A pin orspike i
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . lighter and freer on the hinges. The end of the bar itself,(a, fig. 101,> with the massive latch h, (the latter only rising as the gateshuts, and dropping again to secure it,) constitute a very strong inclined plane c, which is faced witli thick sheet-tin, (figs. 101 and102,) is added only to facilitate fastening when the gate sags, as allwooden gates will, but this less than others, because there is no weightwhatever straining the hinges, except %vhiJe the gate is open. A pin orspike is driven into the post on which the hinges turn, just above thelower hinge, to prevent hogs or other animals from lifting the gate, andwhich does not prevent it from being placed on its hinges while post holding the latch may be rough except the face; and the otherneed be rounded only where the hinge turns. The whole cost of the hinges need not exceed ten cents, and the gateitself may be made at no greater expense than a common set of bars, I 282 // ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER. Fig. 103—WiBE Gate with Wooden 103, represents a neat and light gate, made of iron rods passingtil rough a wooden frame. It is well adapted to all self-fastening latches,for being light its momentum is hut little, and it is not. therefore, easilyjarred to pieces. It catches but little wind, and will not occasion snow-drifts. If intended as an entrance gate to a dwelling, the dimensions maybe as follows : Length 10 feet, height 4 feet; heel-piece (of white oak,) 3by 3^ inches, and 3 feet 8 inches long; latch-piece same length, and 2 by 3inches ; braces and cross-bar, and top and bottom horizontal bars, all 1 1-4by 3 3-4 inches; rods round, 8-8ths of an inch diameter, and secured by heads at one end, and nuts and screwsat the other. They are eight in num-ber, and nearer together at the form of the wire gate isshown in fig. 104. Its chief advan-tage is that every wire fo
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