Monday, January 07, 2008
The World's Most Redneck Mailboxes
When you live in the country you don't have time or money to be messin with the mail catchin box outside. As long as you can put mail in it then it's good enough. Here's a look at the finest mail catchin boxes a man can build.
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Even one like the third did not last
Even one like the third did not last for a particularly loved teacher at my high school in the late 80's. Blasting caps apparently are a bit tougher than your average baseball bat.
In TOTAL agreement with kg2v. My friend
In TOTAL agreement with kg2v. My friend has a mail box that looks almost exactly like that. Between having to reattach mailboxes every week or two, and having to replace the ones that get totally destroyed after a while you tend to get tired of it.
It probably doesn't help that she's a schoolteacher either. And while yes it does look a bit tacky when it's open with the door to the big box closed it looks perfectly normal.
And the problem definitely stopped after one or two surprise collisions with about 40 pounds of concrete :)
I took this picture on my phone while
I took this picture on my phone while driving through Fulton, NY.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d82/Dubbedover/Fulton.jpg
You could see the tire tracks in the snow where the car had been driven to the road - and there was mail in it.
The 3rd one actually has a practial
The 3rd one actually has a practial reason. Out in the boonies, every once in a while, the (usually teenaged) kids get drung, and go out driving around smashing mailboxes with baseball bats. When it's happened to your mailbox every couple of weeks all summer, you tend to get "annoyed" - so you come up with "smash proof" mailboxes.
Picture you're 17, drunk, in a car doing say 30-40 mph, and you swing your bat at that mailbox - what happens? (Hint, you'd better HOPE you're using a WOOD bat, and you still can end up with broken wrists)
One that looks a tad less tacky, but takes more work - get a piece of 6 or 8" cast iron pipe as deep as you want your mailbox, cut into a 1/2 circle - weld 1/4" thick side walls on, and a bottom, clean up all welds, put on doors etc, paint, and mount - but that requires welding etc. Helped my cousin do that - looked exactly like a regular mailbox. The neighborhood mailbox smashing stopped when one night he hear "vroom, wang YOUCH" and the next AM he found a broken bat next to his mailbox
Not sure what to think about the second
Not sure what to think about the second to last one. I'd hate to have the route where you have to see that every day. The handgun is mighty classy as well.