Had a high school teacher that got tired of (probably students) taking his out.
He got a 35 gal. metal drum and filled it with large rocks.
A couple tried it and didn't fair well and it got around. The problem was solved.
RP
Had a high school teacher that got tired of (probably students) taking his out.
He got a 35 gal. metal drum and filled it with large rocks.
A couple tried it and didn't fair well and it got around. The problem was solved.
RP
Monte Walsh "You have No idea how little I care".
The HOAs in and around Wake Forest NC use the DOT statutes since 10' off the edge of the right-of-way belongs to the state, they use a relatively thin steel pipe in the ground with a decorative cast iron scroll that sits under the mailbox and it uses 4 little mickey mouse screws to hold it to the iron work. DOT regulations here say it has to be able to bend, break, swing, fall over if a vehicle hits it. They make it weak by mig welding cast to carbon steel with small tack welds.
We ran a mobile welding business for a few years and we'd constantly get calls to these high end subdivisions to weld the mailbox back on. $135.00 a trip. The HOA agreement mandates a certain mailbox, replacement cost = $900.00 pre-pandemic pre supply chain shortages price, I shudder to think how much that same mailbox costs homeowners now days. They have to buy one that matches everybody else.
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Last edited by Kenstone; 02-03-2024 at 08:14 PM.
Size/Prime a few cases when starting off with a progressive and put them aside. You can plug them back into the process when a bad/odd case screws up in the priming station and continue loading.
When OI bought this place (2004) A treated 4X4 was deep in the ground three weeks straight some fool wrecked the mail box then on the 4th week they hit the post as well parts from a 80's chevy pickup and oil was on the ground Post was broken off about a foot high. I replaced it with a 15" diameter cherry tree trunk that lasted only a few years but no more hits. When that rotted I put another Treated 4X4 in the ground deeply . I suppose it will only be time before some new stupid generation comes along trying to smash mail boxes . My road gets very little traffic I have never looked at what the actual regulations are on mail box posts here .
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
Will 7 hours and post and mail box is done. With the ground frozen it was hard putting a hole in the ground. Hope it last as at 78 it gets hard using a post hole digger!
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