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Mounting mailbox on a springy mount (like garage door spring)
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Ignoramus1723 wrote: Some dumbass knocked over our mailbox. It was clearly due to stupidity, the tracks on the snow show that it was done at slow speed, the person driving the car left various pieces of his/her mirror, most likely when he or she was maneuvering. The tracks show that the person reversed direction shortly (6 ft) after hitting our mailbox. Whatever damage was done to our mailbox, the damage to the car was 5x that. I heard a suggestion somewhere to mount mailboxes on spring type mounts, like garage door springs. The idea is that collisions like this will only make mailboxes bounce and return to the original position. I really like this idea, has anyone done something similar? i Sproing For a long time, I delivered a paper to a mailbox mounted on top of three truck-sized coil springs U-bolted together end-to-end and concreted into the ground. A lot like those "cast iron critters-on-a-spring" for kiddies to ride at playgrounds in years gone by, only taller. Run over it with a tank or a steamroller and you *MIGHT* convince it to stay down, but I don't think anything less would manage the task. Whether the mailbox itself can survive the hit is a whole different question, as should be obvious! But the spring is likely to stand back up for anything short of being ripped out of the gorund. Do those spring-rides still exist, or have they been "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA PROTECT THE KIDDIES!"-ized into extinction? My favorite, oh so many years ago, was (Surprise...) the horsey-shaped one. Our playground had that, a caterpillar, a dolphin, and something that might have been either a hippo or a pig, or maybe something else, but not even Mr. Driscoll, the principal, could say for sure - whatever it was, it wore a yellow fez - lined up side by side between the swings and the monkeybars. Boy... LOTS of metal in this post - Tons of it, if you count the steamroller and the tank -- Don Bruder - - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd for more info |
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:01:37 -0800, Don Bruder wrote:
Sproing snips Do those spring-rides still exist, or have they been "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA PROTECT THE KIDDIES!"-ized into extinction? My favorite, oh so many years ago, was (Surprise...) the horsey-shaped one. Our playground had that, a caterpillar, a dolphin, and something that might have been either a hippo or a pig, or maybe something else, but not even Mr. Driscoll, the principal, could say for sure - whatever it was, it wore a yellow fez - lined up side by side between the swings and the monkeybars. Did it have one like this? http://worldoflongmire.com/dailycomm...oves_the_kids/ Not my site! Probably a photoshoped image... -- William |
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Mounting mailbox on a springy mount (like garage door spring)
Gottcha beat. in the mid '60's, our local playground had a Douglas SBD
dive bomber and a Grumman F6F Hellcat parked on it. Cut the Hell out of my hand in the cockpit of the F6F. Some time later, someone realized they were worth a few hundred thou, each, and they disappeared. JR Dweller in the cellar Don Bruder wrote: Do those spring-rides still exist, or have they been "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA PROTECT THE KIDDIES!"-ized into extinction? My favorite, oh so many years ago, was (Surprise...) the horsey-shaped one. Our playground had that, a caterpillar, a dolphin, and something that might have been either a hippo or a pig, or maybe something else, but not even Mr. Driscoll, the principal, could say for sure - whatever it was, it wore a yellow fez - lined up side by side between the swings and the monkeybars. Boy... LOTS of metal in this post - Tons of it, if you count the steamroller and the tank -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses -------------------------------------------------------------- Dependence is Vulnerability: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.." |
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