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Anybody built one they care to share?
Buy once, cry once.
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Well casing and concrete.
I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
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"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Now days with lawyers out to make a buck probably better off with a cheap plastic box on wood post.
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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You can always do the well casing like Rancho suggested and weld into an old truck rim. Heavy as hell but still 'moveable' upon impact.
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I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
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Thinking something like these....
Buy once, cry once.
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"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Where does a guy have to stand in line to get a "postman" like THAT one?
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Mine is 3'x3' brick. Looks like a big chimney.
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heavy mail boxes here are illegal, at least to the point the PO won't deliver.. too much vehicle/person damage if hit...
Don't agree at all, but what options...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Mine would up end a UPS truck.
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Years ago a guy I knew got tired of kids knocking down his rural mailbox so he rebuild the post out of an old railroad rail in cement. A few days later a kid came to the door asking to use his phone to call his dad. His pickup was down by the road with the radiator caved in.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Where does a guy have to stand in line to get a "postman" like THAT one? I know! You see the size of the guns on that gal?
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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We had a problem with ours getting smashed by vandals, apparently with baseball bats, years ago at one plant. The mechanics built a new one out of 3/16" spring steel, reinforced with 3/4" square spring steel bars. I would have loved to have a video of the first time they whacked it with a bat
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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We did the same but sized it so that it would fit inside one of the large rural mail boxes. One night, it had about a 1/2" dimple in the top middle and after that - no more problems. We finally went to a heavy duty, locking mail box after mail was stolen out of a number of nearby boxes.
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We had a problem with ours getting smashed by vandals, apparently with baseball bats, years ago at one plant. The mechanics built a new one out of 3/16" spring steel, reinforced with 3/4" square spring steel bars. I would have loved to have a video of the first time they whacked it with a bat Similar situation, back in my high school days we had certain teacher who defined the word P.R.I.C.K. to the extreme! He lived in the country and as you can well imagine his mail box was considered a target of opportunity for nearly every student he screwed over. Bricks, cinder blocks, even bowling balls were launched from vehicles driving by a pretty good clip. He ended up having a box built from 1/4 plate similarly to the description above, after that the projectiles I mentioned only scuffed the paint. (Honest Injun, I was not one of the perps) but I did witness the aftermath a time or two when the word got out.
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Our postal carriers or highway department ripped out all the hardcore mail boxes on our rural farm route and put in aluminum boxes on tiny poles b/c I gather they were worried about them basically being lethal boobie traps. It's hard to feel much sympathy for assmonkeys who get what they deserve though for trying to vandalize your property. Most of them are just drunk white trash who need an expensive lesson. You know the type - poachers, trespassers, and low-lifes who run hog dogs across your property.
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This one is pretty cool looking
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Hope they removed all trees, power poles, fences etc.
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