Thank you Roland, M, and Zimmy for the awesome comments on yesterday's post about making a contraption to open gates.

Digging around for more information turned up a free Google book titled Fences, Gates, and Bridges and how to build them.

It's a jam packed book of fencing ideas that has a few human powered gate opening options that may help to inspire a new approach to this puzzle.

Want more in-depth information? Browse through our books.

Or explore more posts by date or by subject.

About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



Want to be notified when new comments are posted on this page? Click on the RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment.