I'm so proud. Our little town got the most snow in the state yesterday: 14.2 inches. It's -2 now, and I just found out the snowplow crushed our mailbox ... again. :mad2: I hate winter.
^^^^ :lol: We used to have that mailbox problem also until my (4) older brothers that worked at a steel mill came home with a 10 foot section of 8x10 I beam and did a nice little weekend project for my Mother in the late 60's. My brothers dug a huge 6 foot deep buy 4 ft hole, filled it with lots of rebar hammered into the ground in every direction concrete. Then they took an old Steel Milk can like the one below and cut the top and bottom for the I beam and filled it with concrete. Oh the concrete came from a family friend and my brothers buddy that owns a cement co so it was about 3-4 yards worth made with stone from the local quarry. (That's funny later) Next they made an mailbox out of 1/4 inch or so diamond plate steel and put the diamonds on the inside and a little flag. Everything was welded together and that thing never moved again. It used to mess up plow trucks blades all the time and if anyone tried to hit our mailbox with a bat or toss a few M80's inside they got a huge surprise. Nothing could even put a dent in it. In the late 90's it was finally moved or should say was tilted 4 inches when a dump truck (12 wheels) hit it with the corner of his front bumper trying to pass someone on the right while they were making a left hand turn. The mailbox broke about 2 feet off the end off his bumper destroyed the fiber glass fender and ripped the side out of his tire and sheered off 3 lug nuts and ripped off his passenger step. Thank god he swerved back a little or the next thing was his fuel tank which was only scratched. I would say the mailbox won that battle among several others over the years. Since then my mother sold the house and has passed away but the mailbox was always still there every time I drove by my child hood home. The mailbox from hell was finally removed with a bulldozer and a crane because they were widening the road and they could not get it out of the ground. :lol: When they did get it out it was sitting up on the lawn with 6-8 guys looking at it going WTF because it looked like a huge concrete porcupine with a short tail and a box at the end. :lol: They used the crane to put it in a bump truck and haul it away.
I wish he could. Unfortunately, this area has covenants that require the same mailbox for everyone. But fortunately, the city replaces the ones they crush for free. I think I'm on No. 5. :crazy:
They can all be made to "look" the same but I wonder if you can dig a deep hole and make it so it wont fall down again. :ihih::devil:
My neighbor has a mailbox that is made of 1/4 inch steel, but it looks just like a standard mailbox. Kind of jarring, I'd imagine, to those rotten kids playing mailbox baseball.
You'll have to use your imagination. The snow is about 4 feet deep at the curb in some places, and I'm not going to dig it out!
A friend of mine ran into a mailbox that damn near totaled his 510 on the Ohio Winter Rally. Mailbox was on top on an automatic transmission mounted vertically & filled with concrete. Mailbox 1, 510 zero. I thought it was funny as heck, good old Dave saw no humor in it. Although in the rally results it did say his DNF was due to transmission problems.
I have one of those in bright red. I got it from a client. Nothing can kill it. The association sent my a letter saying it had to be a "wood topped" mail box. They wanted me to get the little shed thing but I just stuck a little wood roof on with magnets. I wanted to do pop sickle sticks but the wife said no.