If you had to cut thru a road gate - what would you use?

[R3dundantC]

Hypothetically of course… Thermite

Why be hypothetical when it's perfectly legal?

 

[orygun]

Why be hypothetical when it's perfectly legal?

Thermite may be legal. (Don't ask me, I'm clueless) But destruction of private property isn't. That's the "hypothetical".

 

[jman789]

Never used them but a bag full of breachpens might work. Saw them on gun deals this morning

I'll add that to my grocery list...

 

[Mark W.]

SO a new idea came to mind today. My Willys CJ-2A is equipped with a 145PSi on board air system with two 1 gallon air tanks. I could easily run a die grinder or cut off tool. Granted it would run out of air pretty quickly but the compressor is almost constant duty. SO it might take a couple runs to get through a lock. Or half way through a piece of gate tubing (once half way through a strap and pulling it with the jeep would finish the break. Harbor freight has a cut off tool 18,000rpm uses a 3" wheel for $25.00 I already carry air hose that connects ether under the hood or at the rear. As well as a length of very flexible coiled hose for about a 16 ft reach.

 

[Provincial]

Pretty much you can figure that the cheap air tools will use a lot more air to do the same job. This becomes a factor when the air supply is limited.

 

[arakboss]

We still haven't cut through that gate yet? What are we using a plastic butter knife.

 

[Toxic6]

We still haven't cut through that gate yet? What are we using a plastic butter knife.

No they decided to go with the bandsaw so it's slow going

 

[Knobgoblin]

No they decided to go with the bandsaw so it's slow going

You can cut through your ankle, in 5.

 

[AMT]

Assuming you, or someone in your vehicle, is carrying a gun, shoot the lock and push it open.

 

[Juniper9mm]

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[Cavedweller]

Assuming you, or someone in your vehicle, is carrying a gun, shoot the lock and push it open.

With the type of gate pictured in the OP, the lock is shielded within a steel cylinder. This is done to prevent cutting of the lock. The only way to access the lock is with a key inserted from the bottom of the cylinder. Therefore the gate, rather than the lock, is usually the target of those who wish to gain unlawful entry.

 

[CamoDeafie]

With the type of gate pictured in the OP, the lock is shielded within a steel cylinder. This is done to prevent cutting of the lock. The only way to access the lock is with a key inserted from the bottom of the cylinder. Therefore the gate, rather than the lock, is usually the target of those who wish to gain unlawful entry.

But the steel cylinders aren't bulletproof, right... cut resistant likely (face hardened); but doesn't stop a large, heavy, FMJ round going fast enough.

 

[Cavedweller]

But the steel cylinders aren't bulletproof, right... cut resistant likely (face hardened); but doesn't stop a large, heavy, FMJ round going fast enough.

I suppose you could try it, if you weren't worried about ricochet. I don't think I would. But I'm a big chicken.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I suppose you could try it, if you weren't worried about ricochet. I don't think I would. But I'm a big chicken.

"Youre gonna shoot your eye out Ralphie!"

 

[Cavedweller]

"Youre gonna shoot your eye out Ralphie!"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgjPa5JkecA

 

[The Heretic]

But the steel cylinders aren't bulletproof, right... cut resistant likely (face hardened); but doesn't stop a large, heavy, FMJ round going fast enough.

I have to wonder if you have seen the cylinders that protect the locks themselves. I would not want to be shooting at them from any distance with anything, including a .50 BMG (which I have seen ricochet off rocks and go flying up/sideways/etc. for hundreds of feet - it was tracers).