Neighbour from HELL !! Video - What would you do??

[grizz]

Thanks for the replies.
Engineer guy, if that is you in the Avatar..... I like you

Thanks for your response and the links.
I will forward these to Gary as well.

I think he is very patient and reasonable..... seems the neighbour is a general neighbourhood nuisance.

[Forrest747]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQU2K6KlsA

Maybe hook up one of these to the fence

[Engineer Guy]

Rian ~

Yep, my Avatar is me. Fortunately, the leading U.S. Sex Change Clinic is just south of Denver CO. Obviously, they work wonders there!

If You're Looking Bad, Try Trinidad

As was my situation with my sotted p/t Neighbor, this really isn't about a Gate. It's about the need for control; a very different topic that 'mechanical' Gate implementations can only work around, at best.

After one Survey using 5 GPS Satellites referencing, which put the known Property Boundaries to within 'a few hundredths of an inch', I patiently pointed this out to my Neighbor as he screamed at me, Neck Veins bulging. Fortunately, I don't Smoke. Otherwise, his Alcohol-laden breath would have blown us both to Kingdom Come. His screaming response: 'It doesn't f--king matter where the Property Lines are'! That's about the time I gave up on 'rationality'. Patience beyond that point doesn't make him out the Fool. It makes me out the Fool, for continuing useless 'reasonable-ness' in my approach.

Your Concrete RR Ties over there, and some scrap, cast-off Steel, etc., would be a good, free start to a n/c Cattle Guard installation. The Neighbor will hate ANY pragmatic solution, I predict, because such solutions don't acknowledge her 'superiority', and they marginalize/work around her need for absolute control. This sort of intelligent Gate solution infuriates such 'Control Freak' folks even more. O'Well, as my fav Irish surname goes...

I've used, and still have, Electric Fence Chargers on several Gates at a Mountain House where there's House-invading Bears. I put some Black Foam Insulation, used on Hot Water Pipes, on one Gate Handle so that I can touch it in even wet Weather w/o shock. Old Washing Machine Hose pieces work well, too.

Cruise your lovely Countryside there to see how Rural Folks implement practical solutions to Animal Control, and peaceably share split Driveways to 'Divided Estates'. Even before I permanently acquired and annexed our Driveway, U.S. Easement Law dictated that we, the far-end Landowner, enjoyed the 'Superior' Rights. This is because we have only the one way in to our Property. However, enforcing that Law 24/7 is impossible with a devious Neighbor. This is why I circumvented our Court System to solve the issue a different way: outright ownership of our Access.

Being an Audio 'Nut', I would treat such a difficult Neighbor to Wall-shaking, Bass-laden Rap Music for 10 minute bursts every mid-night using a kiloWatt Amp I built. Everyone can be 'persuaded' into the desired behavior. Some folks simply take longer than others...

Good luck to your Pal...

[planovet]

My solution would be below and tell her if she wants access then she can do it my way or not.

[jstrubberg]

When I hunted Texas a few years ago, they used an ingenious gate called a bump gate on the ranches down there. This looks liek a perfect spot for one.

Basically, they had a 20-25 foot steel post sticking up out of the ground and a gate using that post as a pivot. Same amount of gate on both sides of the pivot. Steel cable was strung from each end of the gate to a fixed point on the same side of the top of the post. The bottom edge of the gate was covered with several old tires, split and flattened along the gate.

You pull up to the gate and bump it with the front bumper of your vehicle along the tire strip. The gate will swing open. As it does, the cable winds onto the tall center post. You drive through. After a short delay (10-15 seconds), the tension form the cable wrapped around the center post causes the gate to swing back to it's closed position.

They are heavy as heck and somewhat expensive to build due to all the steel involved, but there is zero maintenance and you can't possibly leave the gate open.