Getting the mail in style

Bulldog

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Rocky Face, Georgia
Tired of the standard duty mail box. It never seems to hold up to a spirited game of mail box baseball that the local thugs seem to enjoy playing. I can't wait till they try to hit a home run on this bad boy. Lets see how well they do against 3/16 plate welded inside and out and even has gussets on the inside for extra strength. 3/8 wall 4x4 steel post with concrete about 4 ft deep and has 1/4 in steel plate side support. The door alone weighs over 5 lbs.

I just hope they don't scratch the new paint up to bad.
 

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Sam427

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LOL!!! A bright orange landmark for visitors.:D They make a heavy duty "RURAL" mail box for the bat people, I have two of them. Of course they aren't quite 3/16" inch thick, but surely enough to hurt their wrist on a drive by.:D I mounted mine on a 1 1/2" pressure treated board, attached to the traditional pressure treated post with concrete around it.:D I never knew a mail box had to be so complicated in modern society.:rolleyes:
 

cabu

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Cool, I like it. Maybe I should do the same, improve my weak-alu-box to steel in orange!

;-)

cabu
 

OrangeRidge

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That's a serious piece of metal-work . I eventually went with a
PO Box in town , for security and weatherproofness.
Have you got line-of-sight of your mail box or are you
way back from the road ?
 

Bulldog

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Sam, I bet the next time you come up here you won't have any trouble finding my driveway for sure. My postman came up while we were putting it up yesterday and I thought he was going to fall out of his jeep. He said he was sure that it was by far the tuffest built mail box on his rout. I even found a good use for cheap wrenches. Makes a damn good latch for the door. It will do for now.
 

Bulldog

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That's a serious piece of metal-work . I eventually went with a
PO Box in town , for security and weatherproofness.
Have you got line-of-sight of your mail box or are you
way back from the road ?
I can't see it from my house. I guess it's about 250 yds from the road.
 

stuart

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My mailbox is a retired propane tank, welded to a steel post. The bat boys haven't even tried it, but a few others mailboxes on my road have been damaged.
I guess now I'll have to decorate it and paint it orange.
 

ipz2222

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Bulldog, do you remember on John Ross road from East Ridge toward Rossville, about 300 yards from the stop sign at Crest Road back toward E R, there is a sharp curve with a mail box on the outside curve that was always getting knocked down. People would come around the curve too fast when the road was wet and slide into it. That thing was forever getting knocked down. I came to work thru there one morning and the guy had built a mountain stone pillar with the mail box in it. I just laughed and pitied the next guy that spun out. Two weeks later, mountain stone was scattered all over his yard and the mailbox was gone. He never rebuilt it. guess he got a PO box.
 

Bulldog

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Ipz, I do remember that but I don't think I ever got to see the mountain stone version. It seemed like every time it would rain that poor dude was fixing his mail box.
 

Eric McCarthy

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When I was driving a tuck for a local landscape product supplier. I hauled several boulders out to a ladies house who lined the edge of her property with boulders in an effort to keep cars from running threw her grass. Someone nailed a 3500lb boulder and knocked it back about 25 feet.
 

handyman

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:eek:Bulldog thats a mailbox. Pitty the dude that hits that one with a bat or bottle broke arm or paint job on car.handy:D
 

Bulldog

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It opens up real nice. Just push up on the wrench and it come right open. I'm considering putting spring assist to close it though. It's not bad at all really. I guarantee you that it's by far the heaviest lid he shuts on his rout though. I guess the box - post weighs around 70 lbs or so. Total package is pushing 200#. It's beefy.
 

aquaforce

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Well if they scuff up the orange I'm sure it will be easy to match up to what ever they hit it with. :D :D :D :D


Then it will be pay back time. :D :D
 

Bulldog

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The thugs beat my other mail box clean of the post after they came by and hit that 1/4 plate I had welded on the side for protection. So far so good on the new one. Maybe they will show some respect for the Orange.