Any easy ideas for a temporary mailbox post?

[atsah]

Temporary? A five gallon bucket with cement and post.. We have a problem here with snowplows hitting boxes, I put a power pole in the ground with a couple of cross arm braces then, built a steel box to put the mailbox into and put the box on swinging chains, if they hit it with the wing, they won't do it again.. They tend not to hit it anymore..

 

[seville009]

Use one of these - Oz Post - quick and easy

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Oz-Post...zed-Steel-Mailbox-Post-Anchor-30700/205142238

 

[Fuddy1952]

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[wheelbuilder]

A guy on the main drag from me has one on an I beam.
I've used the 5 gallon pail, even sand works for that. I've also seen cross shaped metal that you'd pound into the ground. It has a tapered piece at the top that clamps a 4x4 kit has dogs you drive down). That makes replacement pretty easy, unless the metal gets hosed.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I would get out my drill, a large bit, and something like a piece of rebar, or a piece of gas pipe, or even a piece of PVC. Just drill about 6 inches into the piece in the ground, insert the gas pipe, drill the top piece, and set it on the pipe. Of course you would have to match the pipe to the hole size wise, but I think this would work for awhile.

 

[bigtiller]

I seen some signs in Menards parking lot this week around the handicap parking spaces. The base was concrete, 24" diameter and 6" thick. A "square sign post base was embedded in the concrete and a post & sign bolted to the base.

The thing could be rolled around like one of Fred Flintstones spare peddle car tires. Or picked up with a chain on your loader.

 

[sixdogs]

OK, here's what I did for a quick fix. First, my mailbox was the plastic kind with a partial plastic post-base that envelops a 4x4 wooden post planted in the ground. The 4x4 snapped off at the base.

I debated digging a hole for a new post but that seems like a lot of work for now. So, I just drove a T-post deep in the ground and zip tied the mailbox, and post that was with it, to the T-post. I have some of those giant zip ties so it all worked and is pretty rugged. It is so rugged and easy to do that I believe any future mailbox post will be a T-post. It's easy to put in with a post pounder and easy to replace if a combine or Mensa student knocks it over.

Another idea is to set a 4x4 post in a 5 gallon bucket, put some concrete in it and bury the bucket to below grade with my backhoe. Then I could have a 4x4 post for a mailbox and a whole unit unlikely to be damaged or stolen.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Simple redneck fix would be a fence t-post and duct tape....yes I have actually seen this...
Good idea using the zip ties..

 

[ovrszd]

Simple redneck fix would be a fence t-post and duct tape....yes I have actually seen this...
Good idea using the zip ties..

For several years a neighbot had his box sitting on a 30gal barrel. Not fastened to,,, setting on.... mailman had to hold the box with one hand, open it with the other...

 

[JerryK]

I have an old tire rim with a T-post welded up from it. On the top of the T-post I have a horizontal piece of metal to wire the box onto. The rim is filled with concrete. Makes a nice temp mailbox post [ which I have not needed to this point ], or something to place in the middle of my long road to tie yellow caution tape to if I am doing something that I want folks to stay away from. There are many months during the winter that the frost would not allow me to replace the current post when some yahoo spins out and wacks it off. [ AND, I had to make it so I could sleep at night, not worrying a boot a replacement ]