I came along someone familiar who was trying to close an old wooden gate . I helped him close the gate , and it had a couple of locking mechanisms , mostly just post / hole types . We got about a step away from the gate when there was an unhappy noise and the thud of something falling to the ground . We looked back and 1/2 of the timbers had crumbled off and one of the post / hole sections had fallen as well .
Why did the gate probably break ?
- It was old
 - None of the above choices .
 - It was hard to close
 - I helped close it


It was old