ANTI-MAILBOX DESTRUCTION Thread
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From: North of Boston MA
Originally Posted by lsrx101
I only know this because we have a flat car full of it that nobody else wants. Maybe we should turn it into mailbox posts. 
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From: SW VA
They make special mailboxes just for this:
http://www.steelmailbox.com/html/for...rom_steel.html
1/4" thick steel case, 3/16" thick steel reinfoced door, and a 4x4 or 5x5 steel post to mount it on.
I personally saw our mailbox get wacked a couple years ago. I heard someone blairing rap music comming down the road, so I looked out the window only to see the rear half of a Civic hatchback and our mailbox swinging violently on the post (Piece of wood stuck in the ground about 5' from the road with a notch in it, and another piece comming off that one horizontally to the road with the box hanging below it).
I was pissed. I grabbed the shotgun and waited at the end of our driveway for them to come back through (dead end road), but they never came.
When I settle into a new house, I'm going to weld up a 1/2" thick steel box to enclose a standard mailbox. Then weld, or bolt it to a 6x6 steel post filled with concrete.
http://www.steelmailbox.com/html/for...rom_steel.html
1/4" thick steel case, 3/16" thick steel reinfoced door, and a 4x4 or 5x5 steel post to mount it on.
I personally saw our mailbox get wacked a couple years ago. I heard someone blairing rap music comming down the road, so I looked out the window only to see the rear half of a Civic hatchback and our mailbox swinging violently on the post (Piece of wood stuck in the ground about 5' from the road with a notch in it, and another piece comming off that one horizontally to the road with the box hanging below it).
I was pissed. I grabbed the shotgun and waited at the end of our driveway for them to come back through (dead end road), but they never came.
When I settle into a new house, I'm going to weld up a 1/2" thick steel box to enclose a standard mailbox. Then weld, or bolt it to a 6x6 steel post filled with concrete.
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From: Lorain County, Ohio
Originally Posted by Nitramjr
Send it to me - that is worth two or three hundred a ton at the local scrap steel plant.
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From: North of Boston MA
Originally Posted by lsrx101
It's worth more for reuse than for scrap, we just have to find someone who uses it.
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
I was told to weld two lengths of rail inside the frame of G-II if I plant a monster engine in it to get more weight over the rear end.
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From: Lorain County, Ohio
Originally Posted by Nitramjr
That's the case with almost any rail component these days - it's a shame that the rail you need is probably getting scrapped every day in some rail-trail project just because folks can't be bothered (or are too ignorant of it's value) to find a new home for it. Sending it to China to be remade into junk isn't a good use IMO.
To keep on topic, I'll say that it would make great mailbox posts! We use it for mileposts and whistle posts that get vandalized frequently. There was an episode of The Boneyard where rail was being rerolled into fence posts. Our NYC rail came from a lakefront rehab project in Lorain, Ohio and we saved it from being scrapped due to it's odd profile. Luckily, in r/t projects any good rail is generally sold for reuse. But, yes, a lot of good rail has been scrapped over the years.
The 90-RB that we need wasn't really common in our area, it was more common out west in the early 1900s and hasn't even been manufactured in 35 or more years. It's out there, but the farther away it is, the more it costs. We actually had about 1 mile of our unused 90-RB stolen by someone who needed it for a project, likely within a couple hundred miles of us.
Last edited by lsrx101; Dec 11, 2007 at 10:22 PM.
