New England B.S. Thread

was just going through my old photos and found this @mach1man001 ..... july 2017. Man does time fly

 

Morning, motor sluts. Happy Friday!

 

So little motivation today. I dug a hole for a new mailbox Wednesday, I think i'll drop the post in concrete today and let it set. That's about the extent of my ambition for the day. Plus work I guess, but who cares about that...

 

Oh man, speaking of mailboxes, last Friday evening I am sitting in my living room at about 9pm and I hear a loud bang with tires screeching. It's dark and I look outside but I don't notice anything odd, no car in the woods... next day I realize it was my mailbox someone took out- HARD!! Mailbox post was two 6x6 posts attached to each other and buried in the ground 3 feet, mailbox itself was a big, old school metal unit that probably weighed 20 lbs... that thing mutsa done some damage!

I got video with my security camera that points out the driveway, can't identify the vehicle but the noise sure is funny! Guy was ABSOLUTELY FLYING and my house is on a slight turn so I bet the moron was texting while doing 60 on my back road when he drifted off the pavement. Lucky he didn't go into the woods!

So I can relate, as I just had to install a whole new mailbox setup on Tuesday.

 

Going to use HSS 6x6 this time? 1/2” sidewall should do the trick!

 

Go big or go home, get some W-Flange beams.

 

Damn sistered 6x6's? You trying to make sure that thing survives the apocalypse? That would most certainly have done some damage to anything short of a dump body with a plow.

 

Previous owners of my house installed an Ibeam, and it has stopped a car since I have lived there. Actually it may have saved the dudes life, as he went from my mailbox to the side of the tree just up the road 50 feet. The cop suggested the I-beam forced the car back towards the road, thus he didn't hit the tree head on.

 

W-Flange is an I Beam. I was being sarcastic, but damn that's a beefy mailbox post.

 

I'm down for another ramble. Knowing what I do now about Sucker Pond, I'd have some vehicle requirements to make things go quickly, and add that in to finish the trip with.

Edit: Shawn and I were also talking a little about a NMW trip too. That hasn't gone anywhere beyond "We should..." on my end, but he's probably got something planned for himself and a small group by now.

 

Had to replace my mailbox a few weeks ago, some drunk girl took out all the mailboxes from the main street up (7-8 mailboxes) at 9am in the morning on a friday.... Not a word from the parents of the girl or the girl herself and she lived 5 houses up. Tons of issues from that family apparently, enough so that none of my neighbors bothered to chase them for the money since they don't have it and replaced the boxes themselves. Everyone else off my street pressed charges.

 

I'm interested - now that the frame is fixed, besides drilling and mounting up the skids again and fixing an exhaust leak I should be ready for a good trip. I need to get out of the house anyways. Going to be camping this weekend too.

 

Damn, even drunk i feel like you'd have to be trying to knock a row of mailboxes down.

 

My mailbox is across the st on a curve and the speed limit on my road is 25. Karen’s in their G-wagens and bmws bringing their kids to the charter school on my road constantly fly by doubling that... Have had to replace it twice now since we moved in (2015). Would go with a concrete pillar but it’s technically on the neighbor’s property.

 

No, this time I went the direct, polar opposite. At work we had this mailbox post "all in one box" kit that we never used. It's just a screw auger anchor that you attach an extremely light 4x4 hollow vinyl post to. I bought the cheapest, plastic mailbox to put on it. The whole setup probably weighs 5 lbs at the most. I figure either it will shatter into a million pieces or it will just bounce into the woods just like it is and I can reinstall it. The boss gave me the post kit and the plastic mailbox was 20 bucks so I'm not out very much either way.

 

That's no fun. My metal shop teacher lived in a town where some kids would drive along with one sitting in the bed of a pickup with a metal baseball bat and just clean out mail boxes. Being a metal shop teacher, he made his own mail box using a concrete filled HSS 6x6 as a post, wrapped with wood so it looked like a wood post, and made the box itself out of 1/8" steel which was fully welded into a box with gusseted corners. Thing was f-in stout! Couple weeks later he said he heard the tires screech and 'ping', followed by a lot of expletives. Apparently they tried a few other ways to take out the box including M80s' but it survived. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

 

Be careful about the mailbox posts. Know your towns codes and breakaway necessities, some places it's illegal to have a sturdy post like that along the road for the reason that people take them out with their cars. The failure point is the post instead of vertebrae. And it could constitute a "booby trap"

https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/booby-traps/

if someone goes balls to the wall and decaptitates themselves because your mailbox post is an I-beam, I could see a lawyer challenging that in court and going for manslaughter charges - because that's the world we live in nowadays.

Anyway, not advocating one way or another, just sayin', be careful about it all. My mailbox is next to my door we got walking mailmen still down here!

Let me know - I'm so in. I would take an extra day and bring my bike and hit NE Kingdom ahead of it, or NMW I'm in for too. I know @Arcticelf is/was/is-ish planning a NMW trip, but I could be convinced anytime. Though - High summer sleeping in the cab + bugs kind of sucks. We should go soon or later late Sep/October.