Genius or to lazy?

rasbury · November 21

I had to post this...i walk my neighborhood every morning. I've been watching the progress of this mail box repair.
My neighborhood is mid level middle class - 350k or so homes. Now my neighbor I've been watching, has a neighbor next door ..

Then, you have this picture..you have to zoom on it to getvthe full effect..

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020499/uploads/editor/08/hbk1wtwut9c2.jpg

PickleRick · November 21

Assuming he's had his mailbox knocked down a time or two?

Or he hates the HOA

rasbury · November 21

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!

PickleRick · November 21

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.

captkevin · November 21

Very interesting mailbox

Dream_Inn · November 22

lol, picklerick makes me remember a story of my father with our mailbox getting hit when growing up. We had a fancy mailbox that looked like our house. Kept getting hit. Now, we lived out in the hicks of Ohio. He lined up wood with nails sticking out around mailbox. They ended up with flat tire in the ditch! Oh that was great. At that time my old man was a deputy sheriff and went out and flipped badge and asked if they needed help.😉

Michael T · November 22

Can't resist this topic......Had trouble with my garbage cans. Every second or third week someone would knock them flying spilling the garbage all over the place. Found out it was happening to other houses in the neighborhood too. Had friend who was a lawyer, so I asked him what I could do, legally. Thought of buried 2x4 with nails etc. He said no, don't do anything that obvious and premeditated looking. Then he said you're doing interlock patio, around your back yard and hot tub area, right? Yes, I said. He said if you have heavy scrap put it in the garbage cans. I called the township works department about the extra weight. They said there might be a slight surcharge and a would I please put a note on top of them to tell the sanitation guys to watch their backs when lifting them. Done! Lawyer friend also said make sure the garbage cans are well within my property line - so I put them well in from the end of my wide laneway. Next garbage pick-up day I heard a gawd awful crash about 3 a.m. screeching and clanging. About an hour later got up to take a look. Grille, headlight and body parts all over the place. Tire drag marks. One garbage can two houses down. Couldn't see the other one but saw a trail of coolant and oil leading off into the night. Went for a drive the next day. No idea how the driver got about 20 houses away before the car failed. Guy on his front lawn was laughing so hard he could hardly speak. Said 4 teens got out of a late model BMW SUV that was basically destroyed. In a panic they called for a flat bed. Two days later a guy turned-up at my door saying his almost new BMW was a write-off and said I pay or his lawyer would smoke me. Showed him a picture of where my garbage cans were, my property line survey, the note regarding construction waste - with pictures of the job and the email from the works department. Told him he'd be getting a bill for the garbage cans and the litter clean-up if he went that route. Never heard from him again and never had another garbage can knocked over. There is a God and he approves of concrete and paving stones.

aero3113 · November 22

Hello @Michael T !!
Hope all is well.
Great story!! 😂

rasbury · November 22

Hey @Michael T my boat troubles haven't brought you from the background but my neighbors mail box did? Hey, what ever works and I hope things are as well as they can be.

raybo3 · November 22

@Michael T great hearing from you again.

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