Who else gets infuriated by:

Does using your drive as a turning circle bother you?

  • Lighten up dude!

    Votes: 3 11.5%
  • I pay for the gravel your spinning out!

    Votes: 12 46.2%
  • Make a tax donation at the toll mailbox please!

    Votes: 3 11.5%
  • Buckshot downrange no questions asked!

    Votes: 13 50.0%

  • Total voters
    26

WARRIORWELDING

Owner opperator Of WarriorWelding LLC.
Joined
Jan 6, 2008
Location
Chillin, Hwy 64 Mocksville NC
So it seems since my building has a wide drive and a larger turning area all the fidiots use it for a moving turn around.
Now to be clear we are not talking about a polite pull in, check the rearview, wave and back out.

We are talking turn. Motor down to the building. Never lift full circle u-turn and leave back the way you came. Movin gravel and not a brake check anywhere.

Absolutely trips my trigger. This morning at 7 thirty I sprinted across my yard, field and straight into the highway blocking this young ladies path. Scared the absolute crap out of her. She seemed to think I was a lunatic for being upset.

Me thinks I'm a lunatic for running like I'm a teenager.

Does this trip anybodies trigger as well?
 
I have a very similar issue, I have a wide gravel drive. My road is narrow everywhere EXCEPT infront of my house where new construction was obligated to put in a shoulder. Everyday people make a quick turn onto the shoulder and full gas, power turn across my driveway and part of my lawn.

Between the gravel, the damage to the lawn, and the dog losing his mind every time tires hit the gravel, I am going to drop some concrete curbs at the end of the drive this weekend.
 
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Maybe park something so as to block the drive, and/or a "no turn arounds" sign? Had an old shop location in durham where 18 wheelers liked to use it for a turn around. We were constantly regrading the gravel and filling holes. I feel your pain.
 
Nothing pertinent to the pole listings, but the lack of respect people have for residential and business areas is a downright disgrace.
Every now and then we'll have people pull over in the grassy area in front of our shop, get stuck, and cuss us up and down for the fact that they got stuck, even after we offered to extract the car for free and get them back on the road!
I don't even want to talk about assholes on the street that I live on.
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I usually solve this problem by using chains or a gate. My favorites are when I do make it back one of my buildings and I find bumpers, busted lenses, maybe even part of a fender ripped off by the chain. Not really a solution for a residence, but like I said, any property or building I have I'll chain off or put up a gate.
 
Maybe park something so as to block the drive, and/or a "no turn arounds" sign? Had an old shop location in durham where 18 wheelers liked to use it for a turn around. We were constantly regrading the gravel and filling holes. I feel your pain.
I would put up a sign, but I refuse to put a sign written in spanish (90% of the offenders) at the end of my driveway.
I sometimes park my forklift at the end of the drive, which works great.....but every now and again, I need to use the forklift, or leave the house, and this becomes cumbersome.

What REALLY burns me up, is the shear volume of people who think nothing of pulling this U-turn in my driveway WHILE I AM IN THE DRIVEWAY......WTF people! Who does that?
 
They make rubber spike strips that look real, you know.

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Compton is heavily fortified.
And Overwatch is active 24/7 also...
 
I feel your pain. My house is a triangular lot that the point is bordered by 2 streets. My driveway connects to both streets. There is this one azzhat who thinks my driveway is a shortcut. Last time, I was out and hollered at him loudly. He hasn't been back since but I think it's a matter of time until he does it again. I would love to put in a spike strip but with my luck, the wife would go out the wrong way. A gate would work but would be a PITA for me, I use both ends of the driveway depending on which way I need to go.
 
If you only knew a decent welder that could fab up a kickass gate to mount on those MASSIVE steel posts at the end of your driveway :flipoff2:






I read this post while sitting in a job meeting in Granite Falls. Decided "Let's swing by and mess with Andrew on the way back to the office :smokin:"

And then, fatal error....I exited the hiway and tried to turn left and saw nothing but a mile of traffic as they were paving 64

I sat there a good 15 minutes with no movement or even signs of life from the pilot car, then turned right and zig-zagged over to 601 to get back on the hiway. Too bad too...if those doors were up I was going to zoom down your drive and yank the emergency brake for a epic drift :lol: . You wouldn't have a clue who it was either since I was in the company car.
 
If you only knew a decent welder that could fab up a kickass gate to mount on those MASSIVE steel posts at the end of your driveway :flipoff2:
Mister warrior welding is more than capable of doing that and I would certainly enjoy giving him a hand.

Solution: Ballard gate!
 
If you only knew a decent welder that could fab up a kickass gate to mount on those MASSIVE steel posts at the end of your driveway :flipoff2:






I read this post while sitting in a job meeting in Granite Falls. Decided "Let's swing by and mess with Andrew on the way back to the office :smokin:"

And then, fatal error....I exited the hiway and tried to turn left and saw nothing but a mile of traffic as they were paving 64

I sat there a good 15 minutes with no movement or even signs of life from the pilot car, then turned right and zig-zagged over to 601 to get back on the hiway. Too bad too...if those doors were up I was going to zoom down your drive and yank the emergency brake for a epic drift :lol: . You wouldn't have a clue who it was either since I was in the company car.
I'm sure then I wouldn't have known how to react. It would probably have set off an episode of manic proportions leading to a massive draw bridge and moat around the property. Of course hand dug and built with fell trees from the property. Cause I'm hard headed and own no such equipment for proper construction of epic madness.
 
Mister warrior welding is more than capable of doing that and I would certainly enjoy giving him a hand.

Solution: Ballard gate!

Got to look that up...not familiar with the term.

Help though? I've forgotten what that is. You probably have to retract me to work with others. I do have some historical elements from the civil war era and a dang neat small river creek own the property that we could navigate from a county or Two away!
 
Got to look that up...not familiar with the term.

Help though? I've forgotten what that is. You probably have to retract me to work with others. I do have some historical elements from the civil war era and a dang neat small river creek own the property that we could navigate from a county or Two away!
I misspelled it actually. "Bollard".
We build quite a few at our shop. What we do on the end polls is incorporate a roller bearing system into it.

I'm going to have to dig up some photos. Best part about it is, you can be as creative as you can possibly be on both halves. ;)
Build one half and duplicate it.
 
I misspelled it actually. "Bollard".
We build quite a few at our shop. What we do on the end polls is incorporate a roller bearing system into it.

I'm going to have to dig up some photos. Best part about it is, you can be as creative as you can possibly be on both halves. ;)
Build one half and duplicate it.
Cool, I love me some new build ideas. I looked up the other and stumbled on the right spelling. Getting all that in the ground and going up and down requires some hydraulics right? Or some hefty bull gears?
 
Totally lost on this one...
Old saying.
The man who works hardest at his trade generally ignores his own needs in that field

The mechanic has multiple cars because he never has time to work on his own

The shoemaker is so busy making shoes he is always barefoot

The generator salesman doesn't have an automatic switch on his own house
 
Cool, I love me some new build ideas. I looked up the other and stumbled on the right spelling. Getting all that in the ground and going up and down requires some hydraulics right? Or some hefty bull gears?
For a simple swing gate system, here's an example of one I pulled off of Google. No hydraulic operation needed. This is about the simplest way to build one.
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A true bollard swing gate has this same concept, but rather than tab hinges connecting each side to the supporting posts, the supporting posts are round bollard posts, capped on top, then with an OD sleeve built into the swing arms themselves, that slides onto it. ID to OD. Lubrication is either achieved by a greasing system alone, or with a large bearing pressed onto the top cap of the bollards. It Sounds a little complicated by just explaining it. Arguably not worth attempting for most, but we still specialize in them.
In swing arm Gates such as this, in the bollard style we use a lot of rolled square tubing and incorporate decorative accents to compliment surrounding architecture.
I lost the few pictures I had. I'll snap a few of ours locally as soon as I can.
 
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Old saying.
The man who works hardest at his trade generally ignores his own needs in that field

The mechanic has multiple cars because he never has time to work on his own

The shoemaker is so busy making shoes he is always barefoot

The generator salesman doesn't have an automatic switch on his own house
I like that....and it's universally true.
 
For a simple swing gate system, here's an example of one I pulled off of Google. No hydraulic operation needed. This is about the simplest way to build one.
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A true bollard swing gate has this same concept, but rather than tab hinges connecting each side to the supporting posts, the supporting posts are round bollard posts, capped on top, then with an OD sleeve built into the swing arms themselves, that slides onto it. ID to OD. Lubrication is either achieved by a greasing system alone, or with a large bearing pressed onto the top cap of the bollards. It Sounds a little complicated by just explaining it. Arguably not worth attempting for most, but we still specialize in them.
In swing arm Gates such as this, in the bollard style we use a lot of rolled square tubing and incorporate decorative accents to compliment surrounding architecture.
I lost the few pictures I had. I'll snap a few of ours locally as soon as I can.
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This is what I found.
 
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