Saw a clever fix for a sagging gate at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens

I was walking through the gardens yesterday and noticed they used a simple turnbuckle and cable to straighten a heavy wooden gate that was dragging. The groundskeeper said it took him about 30 minutes and cost under $25 for the hardware. Has anyone here tried something similar on a backyard fence?

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susan_adams23d ago

That chain and hook idea is a classic fix. I mean, my buddy had a gate that was leaning so bad you could barely open it. He did basically the same thing with some old logging chain he had in his shed, just hooked it from the top corner to a post. It looked kinda rough but it totally worked, and he never had to mess with it again. Sometimes the simplest hack is the right one.

blairc9023d ago

Is a sagging gate even that big of a deal?

graceowens23d ago

My neighbor in Lubbock had a similar issue with his old farm gate. He used a length of chain and a couple of heavy-duty hooks to pull it back into square. It wasn't pretty, but it held for years and only cost him about ten bucks at the hardware store.