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Assess Current Barrier & Safety

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How to install automatic gate opener..part 1

What happens here

The existing 'barrier' is a basic cable with reflective material and a piece of PVC pipe, primarily serving as a visual deterrent rather than a physical one. The presenter recounts a past incident where an unprotected cable caused injury, underscoring the importance of replacing it with a robust gate for improved safety and security against unauthorized access to the property.

Goal: The presenter highlights the inadequacy of the existing cable barrier, emphasizing the potential safety hazards of an unprotected cable, which could cause serious injury. He stresses the need for a highly visible and more secure barrier, transitioning to the rationale for the new gate.

Tools and materials

  • Cable with Reflective Material
  • PVC Pipe

What they say

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permanent home all that being said what we have currently is this cable ran across here and basically it's not a physical barrier we don't need a physical barrier we just need a barrier to keep folks from coming down in here going down and doing whatever it is that people do on dead-end roads guys leave me some comments if you have any guesses of what those people might be doing down here this to me is just not secure enough now let me give you a story I had a good friend in high school they got got his neck cut from running underneath a cable that was unprotected so just a bare cable just like this so we were sure to put reflective material and we've put a piece of PVC pipe on here so that's highly visible so that nobody gets hurt we don't want anybody get hurt here on the farm so what we're gonna do on today's vlog I can't get all this into one vlog so what we're gonna do is we're going to go ahead and set our post and we'll get everything staged out here meaning we'll go ahead and get our gate we'll get our post set we'll pour some concrete we're gonna put 160 pounds of concrete per post in the ground and we'll get this all ready to rock and roll and set up now we'll talk a little bit more about the post mix and about how this stuff works as we go along cool so let's give you a little bit of Lock science on my dad's farm and on my grandparents farm there are a lot of padlocks and a lot of padlocks that you have to

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