Well it looks to me like this man lives in the country where the snow plow doesn't come. The road appears to be wide enough for most anything. STOP being a pessimist and appreciate the beauty and craftsmanship of a beautiful piece of functional art. He made this to be admired and appreciated, not to be considered. It's beautiful I would love to have this in front of my home. Great job!!!
@@roomwithaview4195 he did an excellent job but the sad fact is that when the snowplows come they will inevitably hit your mailbox. It has nothing to do with how wide the road is. The plows need to push the snow back as far as possible which is why so many mailboxes meet their demise.
@@Bdigital9482I'm sorry if somebody picked on you but that's not what was happening here. The dude offered a perfectly valid bit of constructive criticism. A mailbox sits atop what equates to a 4 foot long lever attached to the base.
I work for the USPS as we speak..... And without a doubt that is the nicest mailbox I've seen in my 10yrs so far of delivering mail🙌🏽 If you blocked your mailbox box(ex, car, trash cans,etc) I'd do you a service and get out the mail truck for that one🤦🏽♂️
You must work in a really tiny town with hardly any boxes. There's at least five cooler mailboxes than that on my first loop alone. I really love the huge mailboxes that fit large parcels. Obviously, slots are the WORST.
@Human Twotwentyone I actually work in a big city. Austin TX to be exact. Alot of my curbside deliveries the residents could care less about the look of their mb. I have seen some nice one's just not so attention to detail as this one.
It is gorgeous. I suppose if it disappeared it would be a compliment....it being a work of art and all. All it would take is a truck and a few good (bad) men. Maybe a heavier base?
@@engineeringartist4801 maybe technically correct. But it’s still interchangeable. My family has been doing residential and commercial construction for 50 years. I know. If I’ve found out anything over the years it’s that architects don’t know as much as they think they do. And they definitely don’t like it when you have to make on the job changes to their plans because what they drew up won’t work. Or there is a better, more efficient way of doing it. So I really don’t care what you think you know. I’ve done this all my working life.
After a few minutes of research, I can confirm that the mailbox in question did in fact make it through its first Chicago winter without tipping over, although it did rust. Yay concrete!
N nobody is going to come along and tip that over you moron. No one puts that much into mailboxes. They'll see a cement pad and keep walking. A bat would be the biggest concern with mailboxes and this guy but his with heavy gauge steel.
@@madwand28 I've seen many a street signand stop signs layed over on the ground just because kids have got nothing better to do , and NO , they were not hit by cars . They were pulled UP out of the ground .Two teenage boys could push that over on it's side no problem .
@@solless2504 these things still take place. Seen a handful of mailboxes being destroyed from time to time or a car, garbage truck breaks it or wind just blows it over
Beautiful! Hope the snow plows don't tear it up or knock it over. 4" of concrete base isn't a lot to keep it upright with freeze/ thaw and snow thrown against it.
I think 4" is being generous. 2x4 is only 3.5". Plus he was below the edge of the 2x4 a little. I wouldn't doubt it if his actual slab thickness is 3 1/4 or so. Definitely not enough.
It’s actually closer to 6 inches- notice how deep the hole is below the rebar- at least a couple of inches… No slab thickness will save that from a direct hit by a plow, or probably even the snow from a plow. If the slab holds, the frame’s going to bend
One of my old neighbors probably 7/8 years ago filled his with concrete because the same people kept hitting it with a metal baseball bat. Next time they did it the kid had to go to the ER with his arm beyond broken
Really love this, I would suggest painting the inside of the box white so you could see anything that might set up shop in there though, maybe even add one of those kitchen drawer lights that comes on when the door is opened.
That is exactly right. Mailboxes have to conform to standards that are set by the post office and the municipality you are in. For instance, a mailbox attached to a 50 ton boulder wouldn't be allowed on a road bc it could destroy a car and its occupants. Also, a really heavy mailbox may go through someone's windshield, etc.
@@veganpotterthevegan they might not care to bother enforcing it but if one day they decide to, then it still goes back to the somewhat bureaucratic and picky regulations requiring USPS approval. Some carriers barely manage to get the mail there, they're not about to bother doing paperwork or dealing with a non-conforming mailbox unless it causes them an issue or is more work. It's kind of like speeding, just because they don't pull over everyone that goes 1mph over the posted speed doesn't mean that they can't choose to or that their not enforcing it on others means everyone gets an automatic pass for it.
Gorgeous. Ours is strapped to a metal fence post atm. Original box got taken out in the middle of the night, we heard the bang of someone driving into it. We found half the post a good 40 ft away. Went and got a metal set up to replace it quick. Battled getting it to stay upright in boggy soil that's always wet. Then the post office left us a note that they were getting new trucks and we had to raise our box by over 6 inches. The metal pole now had just 2-3 inches in the soil at the new height. We're already flat broke so we drove in a metal post beside it and tied that sucker up. It never rains but it pours.
The safest mail box has bolts at the base that shear off when it's hit and isn't super heavy so it won't kill the people in the vehicle that hits it. Maybe build your sculpture a bit farther off the road.
Very creative! After my arm chair review... I would have tied 1/2" all thread rods with nut and large flat washers screwed onto bottom to not 1 but 2 levels of rebar. That would give much more resistance to "tipping" and still would give in that shallow pad if a vehicle accidentally hit it.
It’s a beautiful mailbox. It’s got metal posts and supports….good! My dad built something as awesome while he was recovering from his kidney transplant…then, a 17 year old with a canary yellow Camaro, hit it head on! (We lived on a street corner). He missed me , thank heavens, as I was standing close to the mailbox, so I guess the metal posts do help 😂.
I did not expect that! I think it was pretty sneaky how you showed so much of a base that the actual piece was such a shock. It looks amazing. May well need a better base, but as far as the mailbox itself is concerned... Wow
Very cool indeed, I can tell that you put a lot of skill sets to work on making that look so good. Woodworking, metal work and welding, and concrete skills as well. You should be very proud of what you’ve done. ❤
USPS mail carrier here Mail boxes are designed to be breakaway on purpose. Reason being, if someone needs to veer off the road for any valid reason, hitting a mail box shouldn't unalive them. This one should breakaway as the base isn't buried very deep in the ground. My only concern with this box is if you got prior approval from your local postmaster. There are rules to abide by and custom boxes, as cool as they are, need to fit a set prerequisites before installing one. Your regular carrier *could* deny delivery service to you if they feel your custom box hampers their delivery service. Personally, I love custom boxes
