Kissing gate

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Goddlefrood wrote:
> <snip>
> > 
> > For anyone who has not seen the picturtes supplied in this thread, 
> or might be unable to see them, a kissing gate is typically a wooden
> structure with two upright structures meeting in a v shape. From the
> middle of the v shape there is then a further upright structure with a
> gate affixed to it on hinges. To enter one pushes the gate away, steps
> into the gap, and then swings the gate so that one can exit from the
> other side. At no time have any such kissing gates felt to me like I
> was in any kind of enclosure, but then that may just be me.
> 
> Carol responds:
> 
> What I don't understand, and I realize that this is not an important
> question with regard to the story, is how the v-shape (or circular
> shape in the photo I linked to) could keep out animals (presumably
> large hoofed ones, not squirrels or rabbits) any better than a regular
> gate, which still requires a human hand to slide the latch.
> 
> 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

Geoff:
Possibly because you haven't realised the size of a kissing gate from the pictures. An 
average gate will only be about 3-4 feet across and the gap as you go throug the "v" 
maybe as little as 18". 

As Mike has also ommented, cattle grids are expensive and I have seen sheep jumping 
them. They are usually only installed on roads.