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1. [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: eric@megageek.com; Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:47:39 -0400; I have a question about mailbox posts. Does anyone know if there is a requirement for your mailbox to "break away" if a car hits it? Here is my problem, in my rural area of NJ, we get lots of wet sno; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00168.html (9,093 bytes)
2. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: "Matt" <mbarre@juno.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:26:24 GMT; When I lived in Mobile, AL it seemed the "hot thing to do" for the HS kids was tumping over brick mailboxes. It seemes the typical construction was to pour a failr small concrete base and then just r; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00170.html (11,016 bytes)
3. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:08:29 -0400; We solved this problem by getting a long (14 or 16 feet) 4X4, digging (with a tractor auger) a hole deep enough that it sticks out the usual 3 or 4 feet, filling the hole with concrete, and setting t; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00171.html (11,189 bytes)
4. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: "Peter J. Thomas" <pj_thomas@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:53:34 -0400; Growing up I had a neighbor who had his mailbox take out regularly by the plow. Town said tough luck. He was a well driller so he set up his rig and bored into the bedrock. He then insert an old dril; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00172.html (8,218 bytes)
5. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:03:59 -0700; I was thinking something reinforced concrete three feet in diameter, jacketed with 3/8in steel, and with hot water pumped through it to melt any snow that builds up around the mailbox so the plow gu; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00174.html (8,163 bytes)
6. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: crothfuss@coastalnet.com; Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:04:13 -0400 (GMT-04:00); --Original Message-- Last notice I got from the Postmaster encouraged me to use a wooden post, but didn't require it. My Dad made a mailbox post out of a 6" auger bit. The mailbox still got knocked o; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00175.html (9,274 bytes)
7. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: Donald H Locker <dhlocker@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:54:21 +0000 (UTC); I've been following this thread since the beginning. I have the opposite problem - the snow plow operators stay a good 3 feet away from our mail box. Meaning the snow is well and thoroughly piled up; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00176.html (8,826 bytes)
8. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: "Mark" <mark@nashvilletn.org>; Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:09:50 -0500; We have a guy down the road from me that has welded three or four automotive coil springs together and mounted his mail box on top of it. I can just imagine what it would do to a car that smacked it.; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00177.html (8,383 bytes)
9. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: Steven Trovato <strovato@optonline.net>; Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:34:01 -0400; Here is some interesting (well, not THAT interesting) reading for you: (I live in NY. Haven't found the NJ equivalent yet.) https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/design/dqab/hdm/chapter-10/roa; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00178.html (9,847 bytes)
10. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: nick brearley <nick@landform.co.uk>; Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:08:39 +0100; Got to preface this by saying that I live in a country where the postman delivers mail to the door and it rarely snows enough to need serious ploughing so take this with a pinch of salt. Anyway, it s; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00180.html (8,867 bytes)
11. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: eric@megageek.com; Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:18:44 -0400; I find it amazing that a document like the other one even exists. Talk about people with jobs that they need to find work! Then, the document is in metric! DOH! I would think that the cantilever desi; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00182.html (9,974 bytes)
12. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:28:33 -0400; Of course it's metric. US consumers are the only non-metric people in the world. The US government is metric, and has been for years and years. I think you fail to understand the amount of engineerin; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00190.html (8,902 bytes)
13. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: eric@megageek.com; Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:37:31 -0400; David writes... ways you might no expect. I can only image what kinds of things are studied. Anyone know of a really interesting study they have done? Moose Everything I know about knots, I learned f; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00192.html (8,409 bytes)
14. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: nick brearley <nick@landform.co.uk>; Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:31:41 +0100; How about this one? http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmtlgr/557/557ap49.htm Nick Brearley In favour of just about any study that keeps solid vehicles and slow moving bodies; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00195.html (8,509 bytes)
15. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: "Mullen, Tim (IS)" <Tim.Mullen@ngc.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:25:20 -0500; I remember seeing a clever mailbox "post". The owner had gotten tired of people knocking his box off, so he "hardened it". He sunk a post into the ground, about 8 feet away from where the box would b; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00207.html (8,885 bytes)
16. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: Steven Trovato <strovato@optonline.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:50:44 -0400; When it comes to intentional acts, vandalism, the problem is that whatever clever idea you come up with can be taken as a challenge to the delinquent, now that you've made him look bad in front of hi; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00208.html (8,945 bytes)
17. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: "gordies garage" <mg_garage@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:17:03 -0400; That may be, but when my mailbox was taken off by a baseball bat, I put a 4x6 into a couple of feet of concrete and lag bolted two mailboxes on top of it. Yes, two, the small one inside of the larger; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00212.html (10,023 bytes)
18. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: "Steve Hammatt Mount Vernon WA USA" <gsteve@hammatt.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:39:28 -0700; OK, I wasn't going to bring up my solution.....but now I will<grin> The neighbor's teenage son (I'm nearly 99% sure) decided to take a sideswipe to our mailbox some years ago. It was a typical rural; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00214.html (12,226 bytes)
19. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: Bill Rabel <brabel@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:09:06 -0700; Here's my mailbox. My neighbors formerly each had their own 4x4 post. On Jun 29, 2009, at 4:39 PM, "Steve Hammatt Mount Vernon WA USA" <gsteve@hammatt.com ____________________________________________; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00222.html (9,830 bytes)
20. Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes (score: 1): Author: Bill Rabel <brabel@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:15:14 -0700; Whoops. I forgot that pictures get stripped. I'll have to get the picture off my phone and to a 'better place'. Sorry for the goof. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net ht; /html/shop-talk/2009-06/msg00223.html (9,094 bytes)

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