[Shop-talk] Driveway gates

[Bob Spidell]

OT, but a friend in construction informed me that these ('drop rods') 
are called 'cane locks' in the biz (I'd never heard that).

O(n) T: I think in the long run it'd be easiest to dig them out and 
're-plant.'

Bob

On 8/1/2020 6:15 AM, Jim Stone wrote:
> Assuming you can expose enough of the surface, could you could weld a 
> ring onto the end of it and then try limiting it up with an engine 
> lift?  I’ve used my lift for many jobs besides pulling/installing 
> engines, such as pulling wooden fence posts and even bushes out of the 
> ground.  You might have to provide a base for the lift, but could 
> drill a large hole in a pice of plywood and place that over the pipe. 
>  Pull up the pipe, grind off the ring and then tap it down to the old 
> location.  Or, remove it entirely and pound in a new, slightly longer 
> piece.
>
> Jim
>
>> On Aug 1, 2020, at 8:56 AM, old dirtbeard <dirtbeard at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dirtbeard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marty,
>>
>> Could you just put a coupler on the end of the existing pipe in the 
>> ground and then insert a short new length of pipe in the coupler to 
>> clear the new layer of gravel?
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:52 AM marty sukey <trmarty at hotmail.com 
>> <mailto:trmarty at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I have a gravel driveway with swinging gates going back to the
>>     shop. There are two pipes driven into the ground that receive the
>>     drop rods on the gates when they are closed.  I need to add a few
>>     inches of gravel to the driveway and that would bury the pipes
>>     making them not very usable. Any ideas on home to gab these pipes
>>     and pull them up to match the new surface of the gravel?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Marty
>>

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