Ship Anchor Chain Mailbox Post
 

On Thu, 23 May 2019 09:26:00 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:

On Wed, 22 May 2019 21:32:25 -0500
Ignoramus21537 wrote:

I always dreamed to have a mailbox made of welded ship anchor chain. I
finally was able to obtain a good length (like 15ft) of real ship
anchor chain with huge links (6 or 8 inches, I forgot). Bought it for
scrap price.

Here's a picture of the chain in a wooden box where I put it for now.

Anyway, what I was hoping to do is, take a steel plate for foundation,
weld the chain to it in some cool shape, and weld a plate to mount
a mailbox.

Here's a picture of the chain.

https://www.machinerymoverschicago.c...Chain-Mailbox/

There is nothing there for comparison, but this chain is huge and
long, maybe 15 ft long.

Has anyone done anything of the sort. Thanks.

No experience with this other than thinking the "frozen" chain was
pretty cool looking since I was a child.

A quick image search comes up with quite a few examples though:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mail...bm=isch&s a=X

Somebody even used a chain much like yours he

https://www.thespruce.com/thmb/UKbKJ...b7d0dd3811.jpg

I rather like this one:

https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/189...-mailbox-post/
After having his mailbox destroyed by vandals one too many times a
local gageteer had an epiphany. he mounted the mailbox on one end of a
beam, pivoted on an old axle about 6 feet back and counterballanced
with a weight 10 feet beyond that it had some sort of a "ranp latch"
that held it in place, but when the box was displaced in a forward
direction, it swung around,assisted by gravity and the ramp, putting
the mailbax where the couterweight had been, and the counterweight
through the back window of the offender's car.

Another guy made a cast concrete mailbox that looked like the real
thing. Baseball bats just cracked and bounced - no damage to the box!

Ship Anchor Chain Mailbox Post
 

On Thu, 23 May 2019 11:13:37 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Thu, 23 May 2019 09:26:00 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:

On Wed, 22 May 2019 21:32:25 -0500
Ignoramus21537 wrote:

I always dreamed to have a mailbox made of welded ship anchor chain. I
finally was able to obtain a good length (like 15ft) of real ship
anchor chain with huge links (6 or 8 inches, I forgot). Bought it for
scrap price.

Here's a picture of the chain in a wooden box where I put it for now.

Anyway, what I was hoping to do is, take a steel plate for foundation,
weld the chain to it in some cool shape, and weld a plate to mount
a mailbox.

Here's a picture of the chain.

https://www.machinerymoverschicago.c...Chain-Mailbox/

There is nothing there for comparison, but this chain is huge and
long, maybe 15 ft long.

Has anyone done anything of the sort. Thanks.

No experience with this other than thinking the "frozen" chain was
pretty cool looking since I was a child.

A quick image search comes up with quite a few examples though:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mail...bm=isch&s a=X

Somebody even used a chain much like yours he

https://www.thespruce.com/thmb/UKbKJ...b7d0dd3811.jpg

I rather like this one:

https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/189...-mailbox-post/
After having his mailbox destroyed by vandals one too many times a
local gageteer had an epiphany. he mounted the mailbox on one end of a
beam, pivoted on an old axle about 6 feet back and counterballanced
with a weight 10 feet beyond that it had some sort of a "ranp latch"
that held it in place, but when the box was displaced in a forward
direction, it swung around,assisted by gravity and the ramp, putting
the mailbax where the couterweight had been, and the counterweight
through the back window of the offender's car.

Another guy made a cast concrete mailbox that looked like the real
thing. Baseball bats just cracked and bounced - no damage to the box!

Love both of those. g

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