I had a repair business in Western New York many years back now. When I was young and a lot more ready to cause trouble... I did a lot of repair work for construction companies and one of the tools they brought in was a gas powered auger. I got so tired of the plow drivers smashing my mail box every time it snowed. So while I had this power auger in the shop, I tested the repairs by digging a 12 inch diameter hole about 4 feet deep. Then I took a piece of 4 inch diameter pipe, 8 feet long and filled both the hole and pipe with concrete and made a clamp to hold my mail box on the pipe. I couldn't wait for the next winter to come. The first plow that hit my mail box sounded like a bomb went off. They had the wing plow down and were clearing the shoulder of the road. My mail box was more than a foot beyond any shoulder. It snapped the plow support arm and that started a whole chain of events. The best thing to come from it was the county started keeping track of complaints about plow drivers and mail boxes getting hit. Probably not the best way to get results but seeing the talk about mail boxes brought back some memories. And I'm sure glad those days are gone! ----- Original Message ----- From: RJ To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] When it rains, it pours!
Lee, Can't remember for sure how long the tongue is, but know they work well. I also used one of the brackets for putting up a 4x4x8 foot for a bird house about 4 years ago and it is still standing tall and straight. Think I had to loosen the bolt on the bracket once to re-level the bird house. As for the bracket, it is made of a heavy flat. I got mine at Home Depot. One of the things I like about this set up for the mailbox, when the plow hits it, all I have to do is straighten the mailbox post back up. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 01:22 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] When it rains, it pours! R J, that braket you drove in for your mailbox post. is that a pretty good heavy weight metal? and how deep does it go into the ground. Our town half assed reset all the mailbox's after digging out the ditches and what bit of work it will be once the snow and ice is gone. Lee On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:36:46PM -0500, RJ wrote: > Brice, > > They have some brackets for 4x4 you can pound into the ground and fasten the > post to. It does make life a lot easier, but does cost a few bucks. This is > what I used to install my mailbox post the last time the snow plow knocked > the old one down. It just took a few minutes to drive the braket in the > ground and tighten the bolt to hold the post. > RJ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brice Mijares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 15:23 > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] When it rains, it pours! > > > > While my cousin was here with my leaky roof dilemma, he brought to my > > attention that my fence need some repairs as well. I have to sections of > > my > > fence that is leaning real bad. So I'll have to buy two 4 by 4's and > > replace the ones that are leaning. When it rains, it pours! > > > > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > > or > > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > > List Members At The Following address: > > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > > > Visit the archives page at the following address > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > > address for more information: > > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > > list just send a blank message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination. Do you Jabber? I do. My JID is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
