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

[dangerranger60]

Log Chain and a farm jack will get me through almost anywhere. DR

 

[CamoDeafie]

Farm Jack under the lockbox… lift the lock post and crete base right out of the ground?

Hmm. Unless post is bolted to a burly structure buried under the gate road surface

Don't you just need to attack the connector, not the gate itself?

Maybe easier to use a high lift jack on the hinge part to literally lift the gate out of the anchored post? If there's a sort of clevis pin or shear pin holding the gate to the hinge post, it'll break from a hydraulic jack.

 

[RustyNail]

SHTF Scenario: It is the zombie apocalypse. WROL. You are running away (in a vehicle) for your life. Time is an issue. You encounter a forest road gate:

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Your vehicle cannot get around it. You absolutely need to get past that gate with your vehicle, its contents and passengers. You do not care about law enforcement/etc.

What relatively portable cutting device do you use?

Portable band saw?

I am disinclined to carry a cutting torch.

I have a huge dodge van…. It weighs 6k pounds…I could smash that gate super easy lol.

Why would anyone get out to saw or shoot it? Ram the hell out of it. If your life was on the line I think a guy in a Geo Metro would even try to ram through

 

[Tlock]

I have a huge dodge van…. It weighs 6k pounds…I could smash that gate super easy lol.

Why would anyone get out to saw or shoot it? Ram the hell out of it. If your life was on the line I think a guy in a Geo Metro would even try to ram through

Your not seeing the same gates as me....

 

[DirectDrive]

Your not seeing the same gates as me....

Yep, that "huge Dodge van" would be folded up like an ironing board against some of the forest gates that I've seen.

LOL

 

[Tlock]

Yep, that "huge Dodge van" would be folded up like an ironing board against some of the forest gates that I've seen.

LOL

I mean it is 6000 pounds!!!!

 

[Flopsweat]

I mean it is 6000 pounds!!!!

Still is. It's just shaped different now.

 

[dplev4]

Have you ever used a portaband? They are great for thinner tubing and such, but I wouldn't take one to a 1/2" steel.

Outside of an oxy-acetylene or oxy-propane torch, a sawzall with a carbide blade would be your best bet for getting through

This. Plus simple liquid nitrogen you can by over the counter. And we bought locks and used a torch and saws all both to cut through locks. Took less than ten minutes and three blades. Why waste money to do that, you ask? (Or you don't because who cares.). Anyway, neighbor and I did it because there is only one road up to our homes and it goes through 66 acres of Reprod. A wildfire would trap us. The only other way out is through DNR gates which are almost always locked. So we needed to see if we could get through the locks if we had to. For what it's worth I don't think i could tear the gate down with either my tractor or 4x4 Ram.

 

[Tlock]

Still is. It's just shaped different now.

I'll still take my keys.....

 

[jayR]

https://www.mechdesigninc.com/forest-sentry-gate

 

[Tlock]

https://www.mechdesigninc.com/forest-sentry-gate

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Frank's lumber Co and weyco build some gates that are impressive. Makes that gate looks like small farm gate

 

[jayR]

Frank's lumber Co and weyco build some gates that are impressive. Makes that gate looks like small farm gate

I'm sure they do. The subsurface component should give the ramming crowd second thoughts .

 

[Tlock]

I'm sure they do. The subsurface component should give the ramming crowd second thoughts .

Pretty sure a 6000 pound van isn't gonna get the job done.....just saying

 

[Tlock]

But if someone is willing to try I wanna watch!

 

[Flopsweat]

But if someone is willing to try I wanna watch!

We're gonna need about 8 GoPros, some kind of slow-mo camera and a quadcopter.

 

[Tlock]

We're gonna need about 8 GoPros, some kind of slow-mo camera and a quadcopter.

And a case of beer and a fire......probably a ambulance or 2

 

[Flopsweat]

And a case of beer and a fire......probably a ambulance or 2

We'll call it Watch Rusty Get Nailed.

 

[RustyNail]

I never said the van wouldn't get destroyed...it most certainly would but do you realize a 6000 lb van traveling at 70mph has nearly 1 million ft pounds of energy? It would make it through the gate mathematically...just saying.

 

[Flopsweat]

I never said the van wouldn't get destroyed...it most certainly would but do you realize a 6000 lb van traveling at 70mph has nearly 1 million ft pounds of energy? It would make it through the gate mathematically...just saying.

Perfect, looks like we've found our driver. Who's got a van?

 

[The Heretic]

This. Plus simple liquid nitrogen you can by over the counter. And we bought locks and used a torch and saws all both to cut through locks. Took less than ten minutes and three blades. Why waste money to do that, you ask? (Or you don't because who cares.). Anyway, neighbor and I did it because there is only one road up to our homes and it goes through 66 acres of Reprod. A wildfire would trap us. The only other way out is through DNR gates which are almost always locked. So we needed to see if we could get through the locks if we had to. For what it's worth I don't think i could tear the gate down with either my tractor or 4x4 Ram.

Yeah - I asked about cutting because I doubt my 10K# 4x4 Dodge 3500 with steel flatbed would do much damage to the gates I've encountered - just the opposite; I've dented my flatbed and its sideboards (also made of steel) by unintentionally backing into trees and stumps - I barely scratched the trees. I guarantee that the flatbed steel is thicker than the cab steel - the floor of the bed is probably 3/8" diamond plate.