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Had a talk with my neighbor Sal about how he keeps his fence gates from sagging for 20 years
He told me he drills a 3/8 inch hole through the latch plate and drops a galvanized nail in there as a pin, and I spent last Sunday retrofitting all three of my gates wondering why I never thought of something that simple.
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caleb1405mo ago
The "dropping a nail in there as a pin" part got me thinking. It's funny how the best fixes are just something you already have in a coffee can in the garage. I see that same kind of thing with split pins on trailer hitches. Everybody buys those little cotter pins for a dollar, but a bent-up finishing nail works just as good for years until it rusts through. It's like the whole world forgot old farmers solved this stuff with scrap metal.
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elliot_johnson5mo ago
Ain't that the truth. Real ones know the coffee can is worth more than the whole toolbox.
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