[Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes

[eric at megageek.com]

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 design could be made that when something 
hits it, it spins away from the road.  (only if the base isn't hit.)

The other document talks about the 4X4 post being dangerous as it breaks 
and can come into a windshield, then they go and recommend a 4X4 post!

Mine is set up, we'll see how the mailman likes it tomorrow.  I should 
have pictures up by then as well.

Thanks for all the help.

Moose
Everything I know about knots, I learned from Alexander the Great.



nick brearley <nick at landform.co.uk> 
06/28/2009 03:59

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Steven Trovato <strovato at optonline.net>
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Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes






Steven Trovato wrote:
> 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/roadside-safety/mailboxes 

>
>
> http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/1000/1700/1702/moh.pdf
>
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 seems that 
figures 12 and 13 of the moh.pdf address the problem with a cantilever 
design. It should be possible to include a detented pivot in Figure 12 
to take smallish knocks short of total contact. It would be possible to 
mount the upright in a solidly fixed socket in the ground allowing the 
post to be lifted out and replaced after the (inevitable) collision. The 
KeeKlamp type of construction in Figure 12 allows for modular repairs.

Nick Brearley