Mail Box Destruction
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NewportNic
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Looks good to me but in many areas you cannot build such a substantial structure inside the road right of way.
John White
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I have wondered why some co. doesnt make one built like a tire is built. With plies of cord or steel inside just like a tire. You can beat on a tire all day with a sledge hammer and not hurt it. You might knock it off the post but if built like a tire, I think it would be pretty well indestructible. I have seen a few people take a piece of 8' corgated black PVC pipe and put a end and door on it. That will take a pretty good whack too.
2manyrocks
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Funny you bring that up. I was just thinking that if you put a tire or even part of a tire around the mail box, it'd be really hard to mess with short of running over it.
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I've had them do that too (run over the post, drag the whole thing down the road.
I've been told that it is illegal to build a post/mailbox that won't break. Seems the government favors the vandals and doesn't want them hurt and doesn't want us to spoil their idiotic fun.
I've been just buying very cheap mail boxes and holding them on with a bungee strap. At least it makes replacement easy. I keep a spare on hand.
Next time they bust off the post, I will replace it with a railroad tie. Maybe put some boulders around it. Or some big spikes
I remember a traffic circle at work with 6" spikes protecting it. The grass was undamaged Ken
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My friends lived on a corner when I was in High School and someone keep hitting his trash cans every trash day by cutting though his yard. His dad got tired of it so he needed some river rock to do a landscape project so he sat the cans out and left the trash out but filled each 50 gallon can with about 12 bags of river rock he had bought.
About 6 am they heard a bang. He said they was tranny fluid, part of the grill, and all the coolant along with the cans and rocks dumped over. Never had a issue after that.
Chris
About 6 am they heard a bang. He said they was tranny fluid, part of the grill, and all the coolant along with the cans and rocks dumped over. Never had a issue after that.
Chris
RHughes
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I did the small MB inside a larger MB with concrete poured in between after my box got smashed about 4 times. A few months back some vandals cruised down our road and bashed *every* box with what looked like a steel pipe. It did manage to scuff the paint on mine /;->
My box was the envy of the neighborhood.
My box was the envy of the neighborhood.
They got my mail box two weeks ago; second one in a year. It was a cheap plastic Lowes special. They didn't break the box itself, but tore it off the base that attached it to the post. I was able to buy a new base but like Ken, I just used cable tie raps to put it back on the post. When I replace it, it will be one that gives the next little Sh** a lasting memory.
Norm
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AlbertaDan
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If teh ysmash from the top you still sc%^&%^. But most don't stop to beat on the top. It's more of a drive by smash so they don't get caught. With the swing away your box will still get dented but at least it should still be functional. Better than having to always replace the whole set up. If you do like one other poster said and double line one box with another it wouls almost be indestructible.
AlbertaDan
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My parents had a similar issue. They lived on an outside corner lot and always had people driving over the edge of their lawn. Good old dad went out and placed big rocks all along the edge of the grass. One evening their was knock on the door. It seems some idiotic driver tried to cut the corner and asked why they put the rocks where they did.
My dad who has never been one to back down simply asked why the a**hole was driving over their lawn.
No answer, they simply grunted and left, mumbling something about making him pay. Only one question from the "condo assoc". Told dad to move the rocks. He said he would if the condo assoc agreed to pay for new sod to replace that damaged by people driving over it. No agreement was reached. That was in '86 rocks are still there and no tire tracks
