Why Are Doors on the Right?

[DonMuncy]

When I was a kid in east Texas, a gate was a solid thing that swung. What Hank described we called a gap. We also had a lot of cattle guards. However they were not as secure as a gate or gap. I had a horse that could "walk" a cattle guard. They also had additional problems. I saw more than one cow killed after they walked into a cattle guard and broke a leg.

[Hank]

35 minutes ago, M20F said:

Unlike Texas we have oil money 

It also isn't exactly fun getting out of a nice warm tractor cab at -30F with a 60 knot wind to open a gate...

You can get inside a tractor?? Wow . . .

[Yetti]

Cattle guards are where the big scary snake lived.  Jerk snake scared me every time I had to unlock the gate.    Yes some cattle guards have gates across them.

[Hank]

Ah, the belt and suspenders approach to keeping your livestock from wandering away . . .

[carusoam]

You can learn something new everyday at MS!

Best regards,

-a-

[Guitarmaster]

On February 24, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Piloto said:

The last person to get in the plane is the one that hand propped it, while the pilot was holding on the brakes and engine controls.

José

I hand-propped a C model once... never again.

[MyNameIsNobody]

On February 25, 2016 at 4:26 PM, bonal said:

When standing on the ground next to a cars door you have ample space to position yourself as needed the wing walk is a rather small space that does not allow for much variation in terms of body position relative to the lock and latch. next time you are standing on the walk in front of the door try doing this with your left hand and see how it goes. then use your right and see how much better the ergonomics work out.  As a lefty I always reach the lock standing on the ground in front of the wing unlock and pop open the door using my right side brain left handed approach. same reason the handle is on the left side of the toilet cause most people operate their Johnson bar with the right hand.

+1 on the ground lean-back unlock/pop door...and I am right-handed.  Mooney crawl....funny.  I am stealing that.

[MyNameIsNobody]

On February 25, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Yetti said:

Because in Texas the person in the right seat (shotgun) has to open the gates

Texas, while bigger, has no dibs on the right seat gate chaser duty...Universal.

[FloridaMan]

On 2/24/2016 at 10:15 AM, DAVIDWH said:

Not sure about aircraft, but U.S. and Japanese cars have fuel caps on left while German cars are on the right.

German designers were a bit afraid of drivers trying to re-fuel an empty tank while standing on the Autobahn. I have driven that crazy road and I understand why.

Anyway, I think the Chevrolet of the sky, C-172, got it right with two doors.

Now headed to airport to do the Mooney crawl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NNNNNlet me go do my Mooney crawl.

I'm not quite sure this is universally true. Some vehicles have the fuel gauge on the side that the tank is on, while most cars built since 1990 or so all have a little triangle by the gas pump icon on the fuel gauge that points to the side that the tank is on. I have owned multiple Peugeot 505s and different versions of the same model, the filler would be on different sides.