Hi I have recently had a driveway installed,i have purchased some wrought iron folding drivegates 10 ft wide. I am looking to install these gates onto the brick pillars using the hinges provided,these will need to be bolted directly onto the brick posts which are 17 inc sq. I am a littlr concerned as the bricks used to build the pillars have 3 holes in them and believe using the bolts into these bricks might not be strong enough. Any suggestions welcome- 4 bolts in each gate 2 top and 2 bottom. Cheers

I may not be in the best forum for my question. If anyone knows a better one please let me know. I have a surveryor's report and markers at the 4 corners of my property. I want to put in a privacy screen at a few spots so I need to mark the lines all along. It's 172' on two sides, and the property is wooded, dense, and hilly, so there's no question of using a laser (plus that's an expense, even if I rent one). A year or two ago I borrowed a neighbor's GPS but it didn't work because north kept jumping around. My neighbor explained to me why that was, and I don't remember what she said, only that it wasn't a problem with the equipment. Apparently it was effective roughly, but I need something much more accurate. Anyway, whatever she told me convinced me that a GPS isn't the way to go here. I bought a protactor designed to be used with a compass for just my purpose, but because there are distances indicated in the surveyor's report with the degrees and I don't know what those mean I have no idea how they determine how I need to set the protractor. Here is the information on the surveyor's report (I don't have a degree symbol on my keyboard so will substitute asterisks for those): North line - N 88* 57' 36" E West line - N 00*53' 37" W South line - N 88* 49' 46" E East line - N 00* 49' 09" W Over to the side of the parcel drawing are some notes, and one of them says: Basis of Bearing - west line N 01* 02' 28" W The protractor is two clear strips that swivel, held with a wing nut. The top strip has the degree numbers at the left and to the right there is a 10" ruler along the top and a 25 cm rules along the bottom. The lower strip has a dashed line along the top and along the bottom and a solid line in the center. The guy at the store told me that you're supposed to keep the center line on north as indicated by a compass. I would greatly appreciate it if someone will tell me how to use the protractor and the compass to determine the run of my property line. I will set the degrees and start at a surveyor's post then mark with flags as I go, but of course I have to be sure that I'm heading in the right direction as I do so, and without knowing how those distances enter into it I don't know how to set the marker properly. Thanks for any help. Mary