Wanted, a latch for a gate that lets it swing both ways

Chris Green · 2021-05-24T10:29:43+00:00

I'm looking for a gate latch that will allow a gate to swing bothways, there are some more constraints/parameters as well:- It's a fairly light gate, into our chicken run It needs to be easy to operate from both sides It can't be one of those U drop over the post ones (see below)The best sort of thing I can think of is a ring latch something like this:- without the slotted bit that constrains it from lifting right upout of the way of the gate post. However I suspect that the abovewithout the constraint won't be very sound mechanically.It's made a bit awkward because the gate is quite high and has nettingacross all of it so you can't reach through to undo the existing cabinhook and you can't use the drop-over U type latch because there'snetting right to the top of the gate and the gate post.Does anyone have any bright ideas for this?

May 24, 2021 Last reply: 5 years ago 41 Replies

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newshound 5 years ago

It's a claim. Not a proof. He just rattled the ring a bit.

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newshound 5 years ago

And as I pointed out, if you combine a moment with the upward force you can cancel out the friction in the central bearing.

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