I'm still trying to figure a cattle guard out at the lake when we get the horses there. I wanted to be able to ride to a country store and eat breakfast that is near where we come out. About 3 miles. You could actually see them while eating. About 2 miles out is a guard though and no space or gate to go around. Eddie said after we get there he would ask the owner if he could block a gate . Besides getting permission to get on others property I don't know how to cross it. We thought about a board or bar in the ditch that we could postion to cross but that's a lot of on and off and a lot of weight on a "bridge" Oh well, it "ain't gonna" happen right now anyway:'(
If there isn't a gate, you really wouldn't want to take them across a cattle guard unless the whole thing was completly covered and the cover secure, and even then I would try that, but that's me, Cattle guards are dangerous. No two ways about it.
Becky