07-16-2022, 03:09 AM
Impressive, everyone.
Our new mailbox:
Actually I've had the mailbox, posts, and mounting bracket and nuts & bolts for a couple of months. But it wasn't until this week that I felt physically capable of installing it all. Quite a job, because a few inches underground in the area we want the mailbox, the soil becomes a rather impenetrable clay. Then I had some problems positioning the mounting plate such that the mailbox sat properly on the short arm - had to saw off a bit of it. Now I need to reinforce the vertical post, probably by driving some rebar a foot or two underground and attaching it to the back of the vertical post with something like a C-bracket; then maybe I'll paint or stain the posts.
I want to put our address numbers on the mailbox - thinking of fashioning numbers of the right size out of wood and using the router to contour them for an nice finished look.
Our new mailbox:
Actually I've had the mailbox, posts, and mounting bracket and nuts & bolts for a couple of months. But it wasn't until this week that I felt physically capable of installing it all. Quite a job, because a few inches underground in the area we want the mailbox, the soil becomes a rather impenetrable clay. Then I had some problems positioning the mounting plate such that the mailbox sat properly on the short arm - had to saw off a bit of it. Now I need to reinforce the vertical post, probably by driving some rebar a foot or two underground and attaching it to the back of the vertical post with something like a C-bracket; then maybe I'll paint or stain the posts.
I want to put our address numbers on the mailbox - thinking of fashioning numbers of the right size out of wood and using the router to contour them for an nice finished look.
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
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