Davidm wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2021 11:29:43 +0100, Chris Green wrote:

I'm looking for a gate latch that will allow a gate to swing both
ways, 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:-

https://www.toolstation.com/ring-han...e-latch/p27158

but without the slotted bit that constrains it from lifting right up
out of the way of the gate post. However I suspect that the above
without the constraint won't be very sound mechanically.

It's made a bit awkward because the gate is quite high and has netting
across all of it so you can't reach through to undo the existing cabin
hook and you can't use the drop-over U type latch because there's
netting right to the top of the gate and the gate post.

Does anyone have any bright ideas for this?
How about 2 of those ring latches, ditch the slotted bits and the
loose rings and mount one latch on each side of the gate (I assume
that there's a square section bar that goes through the gate to link
the latches). When the latch is dropped you have it secured on both
sides, and it has to be lifted almost vertical to open the gate.
Should be fairly fox proof.

I've bodged things like that with wood on other gates, I think that's
a good idea though, ring latches are very cheap so cannibalising two
doesn't seem extravagant. Thanks.

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Chris Green
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