Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
My Brother's Mailbox
Yonak
For my brother's birthday in September, 2017, I made him a doghouse mailbox :
Everyone said it wouldn't last a week. Well, it's lasted for over two years, until this past weekend, when it was demolished in the night by some truck with tandem wheels. They did a bang-up job .. totally flattened it . . .
Re: My son's Mailbox
Kevin French
My son's box was continuously vandalized with a bat. I bought him the largest Rural Box and a regular one, I put the smaller one inside the larger and poured concrete between the two, then mounted it onto an 8 x 8" post buried 4' in the ground.
A week later there was a baseball bat lying near the box and a small dent in the box. No other problems in over 5 years.
Re: Doggone mailbox
Bobinnp
Dog Gone It. Couldn’t resist. Just being friendly. Been there done the same thing. First thing I thought when it happened to me, was doggone it. And I chuckled at the pun 20 something years ago,Put a lot of love into that doggone mailbox. I’m smiling now,,.
Too many attorneys in the world to make it solid enough to deal with texting drivers and mailbox baseballers from the local high schools which seems to be popular in certain areas of the country. Including North Pole Alaska. All I can say is ,(sadly) if someone blows a stWay too much time spent to put an hourly rate on that kind of labor. Good news is you did the project out of love. More than likely, you polished your skills along the way. That’s what it’s all about!!
And I mean that. In conclusion, teach your son to make his very own mailbox, since you already have one under your belt. Good luck.
Re: My Brother's Mailbox
Barry Irby
I grew up on a dairy farm. We were required to put up a "Cattle Crossing" sign twice a day as the cows walked to and from the dairy to get milked. A local redneck decided it would be funny to throw his car door open and knock the sign into the bushes. It was a tripod sort of thing. My Dad got tired of it and put our anvil behind the sign. 175 lb anvil bolted to a huge block of wood. Almost tore the door off the car and nearly broke the guy's arm. The sheriff thought it was pretty funny when Dad said, "Thanks for finding it, I have been looking for that anvil." Told him to put it back in the shop and told the driver to leave the sign along.
Re: My Brother's Mailbox
Larry Clinton At Frankfort, (Central) Indiana
Back in the 1950's I lived in a small town in Northern Indiana. There was an intersection with a state highway at the north edge of town that had a Stop sign in the center of the road leading into the intersection. Some local kids liked to run it down and did it several times. I guess the highway dept got quite tired of replacing it and one evening they repaired it somewhat differently.
They found a railroad rail about 8' ~ 9' long and buried it about 3 ~ 4 foot deep and fastened the sign to that. Next day the sign was leaning slightly and a car was seen in a family's driveway with the center of the front bumper pushed in clear to the motor!
That sign was left that way for several years, every time I noticed the slight lean I had to smile. I'm sure today they would be sued but back then no one thought of doing that
Re: My Brother's Mailbox
Ralph Lipeles
My wife taught in the town high school so our mailbox was often blown up with cherry bombs or knocked off the post by someone in a truck with a 2x4. This past weekend my wife and I had dinner in a local restaurant. While we were sitting and waiting for our meals to come a man came over and apologized for destroying our mailbox almost 50 years ago. We really got a kick out of that.
Justice
Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey
Had our box "battered" several times. One time done by someone literally running ours and all the others on the street over by some joy-riders in a pick-up. So I redid the post with an 8x8 piece of oak set 3' in the ground with concrete. Dudes came back about 2 months later taking out the repairs.
Then they hit mine.
Post snapped about 18" above the ground.
The top section went straight through the truck's grill and radiator while the stump ripped the oil pan off.
Neighbors said they heard the idiots screaming at each other as they tried to drive away. Cops followed the trail of antifreeze and found the truck d-o-a about 2 miles away with my mailbox post sticking out the front.
Sometimes what goes around does, indeed, come around.
Re: My Brother's Mailbox
Chuck Kettler
I seem to purchase mailboxes that are capable of insulting high school students. They often return with a baseball bat to adjust the attitude of my mailbox. Cured that problem with a PO box at the post office just 2 miles away.
The solution
Tom Dunlap
After a run of mailbox smashings a local police department put a call into another law enforcement agency who agreed to detailing a couple of their's to spend time at the high school asking questions.
The smashing ended...for a few years. It seems that having the FBI show up at school to ask questions has a chilling effect on mailbox entertainment.
He Really Said This on Air!
John W Foster
About a decade ago, a local constable was on the local radio station, talking about the epidemic levels of mailbox smashing in the neighborhood. He said he was working on an invention whereby when a mailbox was smashed, it would remotely trigger the next one down the road to explode 30 seconds later. Not a great idea, however if he staged it only once and put it on the net it would create an urban legend that would live forever.