Redneck mailbox repair

[wroughtn_harv]

The other day young son called and asked if I knew someone who could straighten up their brick mail box because the HOA was having fits about it leaning. He had a couple of quotes, three to four hundred dollars.

I told him I would look at it.

As most of you know I have hitch receivers built into the corners of my truck bed for vises and benders. The brick column was leaning over and out. So I put a two and five sixteenths hitch insert caddywampus into the passenger side tool holder/hitch receiver thingy doo. And then I backed up, first to straighten it out in line, and then I blocked the road and pushed it back the other way.

We put some sacrete in the cavity we had made with the move. It was plumb all ways when we got done.

I'm in the wrong business.

 

[radioman]

neat! If it works, then don't knock it!! :thumbsup:

 

[txdon]

It's always good to find the easy way, and it works!!

 

[Lloyd_E]

Fair invoice/fees would around $500.00...

 

[mjarrels]

Some of the best repaires I ever did on aircraft carriers was by using a coat hanger to fix air conditioners.

mark

 

[jinman]

Nice job!

 

[Mousefield]

That's pretty smart. Good pics, glad it's nice and straight. Price was right.

 

[Bird]

I'm glad to know where there's a good repairman in case mine ever gets to leaning.

 

[teg]

Good job on the fix!!! Is that a fire hydrant that close to the mailbox??? I don't think I could ever live where there a HOA... I guess I got this silly notion that it's actually my land. :confused2:

I have neighbors that were like Sanford and Son... It's his land and that's fine with me... Even used his yard once instead of going to the dump... *joking* I asked him with a loaded trailer, heading to the dump... "see anything you want?" I knew I was in trouble when he took me up on the offer and replied, "let me see... ya, dump it over here..." I really didn't want to and tried to talk him out of it several times but he explained what he want the stuff for... so I unloaded it and drove past the pile for a year or two until he got around to using the stuff and cleaning up the place. I don't joke around like that any more

 

[MicroPilot]

Yea, its funny that the HOA was concerned that the mailbox had settled and was leaning, but are OK with it impeding access and visibility to the fire hydrant.