TO GATE. 
common road or sesh at 3 and it is thought more fecure 
ay de from which the trefpafs 
me cafes, it is aes to 
convenient. 
“A key- 
ook, to focur re the 
hole and cotter may be put a the: lower 
h ate from being taken off its hinges for 
idle purpofes ; ora ae rivetted to one fide of either of the 
hooks, with a little notch cut in the ftrongeft part of the 
adjoining thimble, is a fimple and good pe ela whereby 
a gate is prevented from a ara off the hing 
fhut ; but is eafily taken off, at fome on 
when t required, where the ftud comes oppofite to the notch, 
and admits the thimble to = over the ftudded hook. 
And it is not uncommon to one _— driven into the 
n way, an 
an effectu 
has the inconvenience o 
moe ithout dene one 0 
“The oa principles are applied in the hanging of gates 
on the contrary fides, and likewife a - of {wing-gates,’' 
a full explanation of which may be feen in the very ufeful 
Effay referred in as as the per of fawing timber 
for gates and gate-po 
The writer has fu sete « that the common field-gates 
admit of a material diftin@tion from road-gates in feveral 
refpects ; for, as to thofe, which are ufed very feldom, or 
t 
t he has 
ae 
x 
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= 
Q 
ufual ; 
have a piece © 
iron rounded and bevelled acutely towards a point, an 
focket which may be faftened to the heel of the gat e with 
cae ey oan nuts ; ae > ocket : of courfe lefs ac 
n the o be received, Ee that as little frition as 
patible sey a occafioned. in op ing the eee by the twiit 
thought neceflary, t ate migh 
a {mail roller or calter cd yun the hee 
ing-gate ee with four 
two. middle ones ae projected a 
e See: and 
the part attached to the gate indented to ate the hooks: 
but the fame objetions apply to this as to thofe noticed 
already. 
V 
OL. XV, 
TABLE. 
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