Hey, if'n you ain't grabbed ahold of a rural mailbox door in the middle of summer and tried to pull open on a hot summer day, after some kids with a baseball bat knocked it all crooked...
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Milkweed Host
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If not, she has one ugly leg...............
Nope, inside of left bicep.
Shooter
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back in the 90,s we had a big rash of kids driving by in a pickup and hitting the mail boxes with a bat, they got mine, so I used 1/4 inch steel plate, and formed it in a hydraulic press at work. exact same size as the big country mail box. even painted it silver, ( got crap from the post office and had to put a little red flag on the side,) my daughters were in high school then, and said kids were talking about the box on road 5, you could find wood chips and pieces of bats on the ground, they couldnt hurt it, even the door was 1/4 inch. and the hinge pin for the door is 1/2 inch bolt,
so last summer, my neighbor called and said there was a car wreck, by the time I got down to where my mail box was, the car was gone, he had ran over my mail box, they think he was drunk. he bent the pole over to the ground, but the box was still fine, I found parts of the grill,, bumper and headlights, some exaust pipe and half a shock asorber laying there, must have really messed his car up.
I cut off the old post, and and welded it onto a new piece of 3 inch pipe. works perfect
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Had somebody build his own just like yours in the town where we used to live. The kids gave up pretty quickly on tryin' to beat that one down.
Walrus Whisperer
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It can't even spell courage right.
Snowplows back in upstate NY too often tear out mailboxes in winter, so some have done similar stealth reinforcement.
Our township was not too pleased when one exceedingly rigorous mailbox grabbed, hung up & bent up bad the local snowplow rig.
Yeah, because replacing a mailbox and stand MIGHT run you $250. Replacing just the pliw steel is in 5 figures...you start bending structural steel and you're into real money.
The local millionaire back home hung his mailbox from heavy (retired) logging chains, off a welded steel "yardarm" type arrangement. The stand was above plow height, but if the clipped the mailbox, it just swing out of the way.
Summerthyme
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Ours in NY was a milk can full of cement with the 4x4 and the box on top of the 4x4. The 4x4 was sleeved in cardboard when the cement was poured so the post could be slid out and replaced.
Ours was a milkcan full of cement, with a piece of 3" well pipe for the post. Topped with a hand painted cow and farm name by our Amish neighbor. Oddly, it wasn't ever touched (by vandals)... many others were. Then again, it was Amish crafted, and that was about the time my hel for the community got more serious...
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MinnesotaSmith
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The experience of every nonelite nonwelfare-user in Democrat-run cities in the U.S. today (and why they're all fleeing them):
