Maine weather thread (Caribou, Rumford, Lincoln: pollution, garages, factory)

[Submariner]

I had a mailbox one time when I lived in California, where drunks kept hitting it. So after a few times of replacing the post, I got hold of an old powerpole the utility company had replaced. I cut it in 3 sections and banded them together. Sunk it deep in the hole and mounted the mailboxes on top. After that day, all the drunks managed to avoid hitting our mailbox.

[CT2MEwoodnutt]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

Some of those mailboxes are a quarter inch thick. They look like ordinary mailboxes.

A neighbor of mine, when I lived in CT was a welder.
This man made a "Nuclear-Proof" mailbox, out of diamond plate steel.
You could wail on it all day long with a sledgehammer, and you would just get tired.


I should have asked him to made one for me, before I left.


I just pile the windblown 'blocks' of snow, from my shoveling on the down roadside, and behind the mailbox, to cement it into place, so the plows cannot knock it over.


Those mailboxes supported with a heavy pipe, bent 90* and attached by chains also look pretty bomb (or plow) proof!




CT2MEwoodnutt in Peru

[NortheasternBound]

Originally Posted by Brodels

The plow knocked over and completely buried my mailbox. I couldn’t see any of it at all and just started digging where it was last seen. It seems like we’ve had three months of winter in one month.

Dang! I can imagine how that must have looked (sorry I did chuckle - sucker for slap-stick humor)!
It does seem like we've been wintering along time!

[NortheasternBound]

Currently here at Aurora, ME...7F Degrees, Dew Point -6F Degrees, Winds WNW 6mph, Cloudy. Windchill 0! Almost feels balmy compared to last night!

Re-mounted our Mailbox...Grateful for new ideas and also conversations and stories! Mostly, grateful that because of the weather, we had some much needed time off from work (began to feel like we were gleaning our own straw for the bricks)!
Here's to the drawing of the drapes upon this day, good night's sleep and sweet dreams!

[jonesg]

Originally Posted by CT2MEwoodnutt

A neighbor of mine, when I lived in CT was a welder.
This man made a "Nuclear-Proof" mailbox, out of diamond plate steel.
You could wail on it all day long with a sledgehammer, and you would just get tired.


I should have asked him to made one for me, before I left.


I just pile the windblown 'blocks' of snow, from my shoveling on the down roadside, and behind the mailbox, to cement it into place, so the plows cannot knock it over.


Those mailboxes supported with a heavy pipe, bent 90* and attached by chains also look pretty bomb (or plow) proof!




CT2MEwoodnutt in Peru

I think I'll make one,
2in galvi steel elec conduit at home depot, they also sell 90deg curves.
It's a simple weld job.
Is there a demand for them?

[slyfox2]

Strong mailboxes mean nothing to a big plow truck. Ours is on PVC pipe above the level of the blade, hanging by a chain.

About 38 years ago where we lived in PA in the farmhouse on a pig farm(before kids), guys in pick up trucks were ripping away mailboxes. My landlord had his taken out. So he went out with the tractor, and put in a post hole 6 feet down. Then he put in a 10 foot long 12 inch diameter telephone pole, and made a 3/8 inch welded steel base. He took a large mailbox, and put normal size box inside it, with reinforced concrete in between.

A couple of days later we found a steel chain connected to a truck bumper connected to the mailbox. There was a very minor dent in the side, and we heard through the grape vine that the kid who used the bat on the box as they were driving by ended up with two broken arms.

Nobody vandalized his mailbox after that.

[Cambium]

I seen some people around here (mostly main roads) just put a piece of plywood in front of the mailbox post in the direction the plow comes. Sometimes both sides. It's the initial blast from the plow that has the force, not the snow depth itself. So they protect the mailbox with the plywood.


One neighbor got fed up so he's using Tree logs to support his mailbox now. lol

[NortheasternBound]

Oh, my!! Perhaps we should have a thread about Mailboxes!!! LOL! Seriously, though, I'm sensing some wonderous and funny stories...!

[NortheasternBound]

Currently here in Aurora, ME, 23F Degrees, Dew Point 21F Degrees, Winds North 5mph...Wind Chill 5F Degrees....Snowing
Of course we made it to work today and heard the stories of those who survived this last storm from the Bakery....A few ventured in to work, but there were at least 60 of us who had to remained at home (on Friday), to dig-out!!
It snowed this afternoon...about 3"! Made for an interesting commute!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Fox news just showed a piece with a guy ice skating on the beach at Ogunquit. That's salt water ice.