Snow gates in Scotland (2023 Update)

[ARW]

I bet they stole the sign as they left unless it was made of plastic.

Thieving gyppo bastards.

[Rod Speed]

Our fire trails used by massive great 6WD fire trucks in the scrub land have a tilting heavy metal pole with the padlock inside a heavy steel cylinder so you can put the key in the open end of the cylinder to unlock it, but there is no access to the padlock even with an angle grinder. Works very well.

[Max Demian]

Where are people expected to store them if they don't have a garage or shed? The living room?

[ARW]

But that's where the criminals are intelligent.

You either drill the padlock (done that before legally) or when our unit was robbed they just used the angle grinder to cut though the gatepost as it was easier than the padlock.

[Commander Kinsey]

They didn't have namby pamby health and softy.

The schools are scared it'll get too deep for the parents to come pick them up so they'll be left with a thousand kids overnight. But er.... walk home?!?!

[Commander Kinsey]

Owning two sets of wheels can be f****ng expensive with some cars.

If they're already on wheels, why do you need a tyre centre?

[Commander Kinsey]

The car.

[Commander Kinsey]

Fucking EU.

[Commander Kinsey]

The car park is private property. Why would they be allowed to stay any more than your car being parked there for a year? At least charge them the going parking rate.

Here, they actually set up a caravan site for them! A free one! Heil mein Fuhrer Sturgeon!

[Commander Kinsey]

In Dundee there's a lot fires in police cars. Or tacks placed behind them to destroy the tyres.

[Commander Kinsey]

Or the height bar itself.

[Brian Gaff]

Ahem, actually I think he was poking fun at you. No idea what snow gates are, and of course one could ponder that they are gates to keep back snow, or maybe to let snow in or even gates made of snow, but that would be very silly indeed.

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

No I remember 1963, walking along much higher up than usual then as it thawed found a Mini roof in my footway. From experience of that year, any gates to keep snow at bay would need to be very very strong, as I've seems drifts push over brick walls that year. Then when it all thawed mud was the problem, sliding into the street now that the wall had gone. Brian

[jim.gm4dhj]

I wouldn't be too sure

[jim.gm4dhj]

still doesn't get it

[Brian Gaff]

Yes, we used to have legitimate Gypsies here when I first moved here. When they went on you would hardly had known they had been. The lot we mostly now have are hated by them, and us equally, as they not only never clean up, they deliberately thieve stuff from cars and gardens, leave crap and burned out cars in the woods and have uncontrolled packs of dogs, not to mention the children. Really we seem to have no answer for these parasites. Brian

[Colin Bignell]

No choice when the winter tyres are narrower than the standard ones and won't fit on the same rims.

Laziness

[Colin Bignell]

Gates used to close off roads when snow would make using them dangerous.

[Rod Speed]

Those countrys all have rentable storage.

[Rod Speed]

The gates stop cars, not snow.