Another cool grey day. My fig is having a second crop and I wonder how much sun it needs to ripen. Right now they are going brown but are still hard.
When Geoff went out to work this morning someone had backed into our automatic gates and bent them. I suspect that an RV has gone down the Sledge Track by mistake and tried to do a reverse three point turn in the driveway. They do that about once a fortnight, but this is the first time one has managed to damage the gates.
I think the hydraulic arms are ok, but we'll have to take the gates off and see if they can be straightened or new ones made. I will ring the insurance company on Monday and see if I can make a claim to offset the cost.
Geoff thinks we might as well shift the arms so that they are normally closed instead of normally open, that means the hydraulic arm is telescoped so that the smooth metal isn't exposed to the erosion of dust all the time. It will make them last longer. I guess if he's willing to do the work of reconfiguring them I am happy to wait for the process.
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