Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1873 — How to Hang Gates. [ARTICLE]

How to Hang Gates.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes: “In the spring of 1-867 I hung four-large gates. The posts were six by eight inches square, and were put in the ground two and one-half feet. The post that I hung the gate to was put down first and the gate then hung. I then set the Ot her pftst so as to let the gate shut inside the post, against two pins driven in the post, one foot from the top and bottom of the gate. Then I put a one inch pin through the head of the gate, putting the pin through the gate the same way the gate shuts" and extending through four inches; with tlmppint_of the pin elevated one inch. This pin was thus arranged'so* as to slip over the top pin in the post, with sufficient bearing to take out the spring of gate. In this way, when shut, the gate is supported by both posts. The gate is made of lumber, bars one inch thick, four or five inches wide, and eleven feet long. I take for the two heel pieces lumber one inch thick, four inches wide, and four feet ten inches long. I also take two pieces two inches wide for the*bead of the gate, that are set back three feet from the head of the gate. J then put a brace on both sides, running from the top of the center upright slats to the bottom of the heel pieces, all being firmly bolted together. The latch or bolt (three and onehalf feet long), is placed on the top of the third or fourth bar. A mortise is cut in the post for the bolt or lateh to slide in. The above four gates were hung in the spring Of 1 WGZ. They stand as firm to-day as they did the day I hung them. The Sierra Madre (Col.) Tunnel upon which considerable work has already been done, will be twelve miles long, and'its greatest depth—at St. James’ peak—will be 6,000 feet. The objects of this stupendous work are to afford a means of working the discovered .mines rapidly and cheaply, to discover and open new veins, and to afford a track for a railway.