Kissing gate

[Mike]

> Carol responds:
> 
> What I don't understand, is how the v-shape could keep out 
> animals (presumably large hoofed ones) any better than a regular
> gate, which still requires a human hand to slide the latch.

Mike:
As you know, I'm not from the isles, so I may be wrong in my 
assumption here. But in a seperate link, I saw a wooden gate that 
had no latch, it was just free to swing. Any large animal could not 
negotiate the gate because it cannot get itself far enough into the 
point of the "V" to allow the gate to swing behind it.


> Carol, thinking that a stile, or even what we in the U.S. call a
> cattle guard, would work just as well or better to keep sheep and
> cattle out of a graveyard

Mike:
Ah, but cattle guards are not as near infallible and cost much more 
to make and to install. As long as these gates are kept up, it's a 
perfectly fine method for precluding the large animals from traversing 
to unwanted areas. And costs only a couple of hinges more than the 
rest of the fence.