Genius or to lazy?

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• PickleRick Member Posts: 4,220 ✭✭✭✭✭

  3:16AM

  Assuming he's had his mailbox knocked down a time or two? 
  
  Or he hates the HOA 

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• rasbury Member Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭✭✭

  2:48PM

  There has to be a back story- it's a decent home in the neighborhood,  has a late model expedition in the drive...been like this for years- if you zoom on it, it's just a rotten piece of wood that will no longer hold a screw!

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• PickleRick Member Posts: 4,220 ✭✭✭✭✭

  3:37PM edited 3:40PM

  If it was a beaten mailbox issue, a 6 inch thick wall steel tubing, painted brown to look like wood 4 ft deep with a 12 inch hole for concrete is a good start.  
  
  Welded to the steel pipe is the largest square tubing you can find that fits inside a standard sheet metal mailbox, trussed.   You'll have to notch the bottom out of your new mailbox to place it over your square tube.  Attached with 1/4-20 screws.  
  
  The poor soul who decides to hit the mailbox with a bat will feel it for days.   The poor soul who hits it with their vehicle will need to call AAA. 
  
  This is also good for plow trucks, although I'd go 6-8 ft deep and 8 inch tube for plow trucks.  Also  double the hole size for concrete. 
  
  For added strength fill round tube with concrete.  Bracing concrete with rebar/mesh in the hole is also a good idea if  you need stopping strength.  
  
  
  
  
  

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• captkevin Member Posts: 421 ✭✭✭

  5:47PM

  Very interesting mailbox 

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