Allotment locks

I dont. but a wider knowledge base on matters mechanical is now a cross post target

Locks only deter the vandal or casual person. Somebody really intent in getting in will come equipped, even though such short lives of locks sounds like they were crappy in the first place. Some of the Chubb padlocks are extremely sturdy, but its not of much use if undoing a few screws can bypass the lock. Brian

I have used these on two side gates and have not been disappointed. They will require each member has a key

Chub is quality. If a security device is made by Chubb, the lock component will be excellent and IME the rest well thought-out and sturdy.

The problem will then be what it's attached to, and how.

BTW, don't worry about 'jumping in', sometimes there are days in this group (uk.reg.gardening) with no post. It used to be very well populated.

Isn't the problem with combination locks keeping the water out. Less of a problem in SE Essex where there is no rain for months on end :)

One solution is a chain of conventional padlocks. Instead of needing 40 identical keys you can, say, have 10 padlocks each with 4 identical keys. You have a chain around a gate and then a chain of padlocks where the shackles are interlinked to form a chain. Undo any one of the padlocks and the chain is undone.

A video explaining..

This allows for some more robust pad locks rather than the general run of micky mouse combination padlocks.

The problem with that is someone re-locking the chain incorrectly can lock out the other keyholders. You can get bolts with multiple padlock slots, where removing any one of the padlocks allows access - here's a random example

Badgers broke into our local allotments.

They just dug a tunnel under the fence.

Andrew

Does Chubb still exist ?. I have a Chubb 5-lever mortice lock on my front door and that style of lock is no longer made because Union who own Chubb used to have an agreement with a ?US company which has lapsed.

I don't think any of the other rival 5-lever locks are an an exact fit into the hole for the Chubb lock.

Evidently the fencers didn't know to bury a couple of feet of mesh on the outside of the fence

The great escape!

I think there is an exact copy made by Union

Evidently you don't know how deep badgers can dig

Evidently you don't know I have been a gamekeeper.

Evidently you don't realise that that doesn't make you an expert in badger sett depths

Or badgers *entrances* are lower down the bank than that

Since I've been acquainted with badgers since the 1950s I think I have a pretty good idea how to thwart them.

They don't have a lot of imagination. Gamekeepers have a bit more.

Yes. They may have been taken over by Union, but I replaced my

Regards, Nick Maclaren.

That was the case for me a few years back . I need another one too.

I don't know about Badgers, but I do know about rabbits.

Although they can dig quite deep they are so thick that if you bury some netting _horizontally_ out from the fence they can't cope. They go up to the fence, dig down, then find the netting and give up.

If you dig a trench and put a couple of feet of wire _vertically_ they keep digging down until they get to the bottom.

Badgers probably aren't as thick but the same trick may well work.

Andy

Yes. We had a pet rabbit as children. It did exactly as you describe. It was always escaping, and one day it didn't come back. It was f****ng boring anyway.

But it did net me my first tetanus injection when it gouged a chunk out of my finger.

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