Tractor/Mailbox TEST

[txdon]

It seems that there are a few mailboxes in Lee County that take a beating from the hail and highwind. Sometimes It almost looks like someone took a big stick and beat the heck out of the mailboxes. But, I know that it is just the weather because all our citizens are fine people. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

This is my mailbox welding class project. I built it from pieces laying around school and the farm. I used the Wroughtn Harv's "build it stronger than it has to be" method.

To test it - since this is a tractor net - I used the Kubota 5030's right front tire. Will it pass????????

 

[txdon]

Yep!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Come on bad weather, I'm ready! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[DannyD]

and just think when some dummy with too much to drink hits it, and it flies thru his windsheild, you will still have your mailbox and he wont have a windshield.

We also know now why the makers of mailboxes DONT make them as good as yours...........they would only sell you ONE

Cool work

 

[billbill1]

Your postman will probably complain about how heavy the door is!!! Kansas tornadoes would still hide it from you but I don't think it would hurt it any.

 

[Dargo]

Awesome! I had a guy pay me to weld him up one like that and the IN postmaster made him take it down. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Apparently in Indiana, you can't put up one like that because the idiots driving by with a baseball bat could have the bat bounce back and smack themselves on recoil causing injury. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

No $#@&! You can have a brick one, but not like yours! Apparently with a brick one, the juvinile delinquents realize they won't smash it with a baseball bat and won't try. The heavy gauge steel one takes them by surprise and can hurt them. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Heck, with the one I welded up for the old guy out the road, the 8" "I" beam supporting it should have been a clue! The old guy spent 2 days digging a crater for a hole and used about a half a dozen bags of concrete setting the I beam post. He had me use an 8' piece of 8" beam. Can you believe the Indiana postmaster?! I personally think they deserve it if they are stupid enough to try to club your mailbox!! Hopefully TX isn't as stupid as IN.

 

[johnday]

Same here in Michigan, and I suspect elsewhere. You don't want to injure a potential criminal, now would you? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Mailboxes have to be on a post that will breakaway so noone can be hurt. And forbid scratching the county snowplow! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Bird]

I don't know how it is everywhere in the state, but where we lived, the only mailbox post you could have on a state road (farm-to-market roads) was one the state guy installed for you, a breakaway post. However, I don't know of any restrictions on the box itself. On county roads, such as we lived on, you could put anything you wanted to as long as it satisfied the rural carrier.

 

[DannyD]

I am in Indiana also, knew that here it would not work. My neighbor has a break away post......everytime her drunk son or boyfriend comes in they break it away. Right now it is held up with concrete blocks.

We have lots of the bricked in ones in the new subdivisions around here

 

[johnday]

Bird; My info came from my mailcarrier. Ofcourse he may have been interested in not hurting his mailtruck. If everything isn't perfect, he won't deliver your mail. I'm probably the only one with an **** mailman. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Dargo]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'm probably the only one with an **** mailman. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

Yeah, right! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Due to a huge problem with my carrier when I built where I now live, I ought to post a picture of my nice brick mailbox with a flower planter. It is back by my house, and I have a driveway that is about 1/4 mile long. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif It's a long and rather nasty story, but after a prolonged battle with my carrier about where to put my mailbox, the Indiana Postmaster General gave me a written okay to put my mailbox anywhere I wanted. Being that I didn't want to have to walk 1/4 mile to check the mail, that happened to be back by my house. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif