Different kind of Mail box post!!! LOL

JD Seller · Jan 27, 2018

I was driving around this afternoon just being nosey. LOL I saw this temporary mailbox post. LOL

I know the fellow and he was laughing at it too. He told me the county grader snapped him old one off right at ground level. The edge of the road is frozen so hard he could not even get his skid steer mounted auger to dig a hole. So this is solution until it thaws out. Actually kind of clever. He is on a road that may get three cars a day. It actually would be safe if a car hit it as the bale would just move or explode.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 27, 2018

If that is actually the road next to the bales, I can see why it is not traveled much. LOL'
Loren

JD Seller · Jan 27, 2018

That is just the pull over spot for the mail car. The road is better than that. Maybe not much but better. LOL

Ken Macfarlane · Jan 27, 2018

Same problem here, I?ve got mine bolted to an old Apple crate sitting on the snowbank until it thaws.

Dieseltech · Jan 27, 2018

Redneck ingenuity in all it's glory!

kcm.MN · Jan 27, 2018

Must not be much snow & wind there. Our county plows would have a conniption fit if we had a row of bales that close to the road.

Otherwise, I like the idea! ...Now all he has to do is make a pair of legs with boots sticking out the other end, and an arm sticking out this end holding the mailbox post! :lol:

farmerwithmutt · Jan 27, 2018

I've got a round bale parked just above my mailbox. First class idiot working for township he's got a mile downhill shot to my mailbox and he's got it floor boarded by the time he goes past mine. A couple years ago he swerved out than back in caught the soft dirt and plowed into the ditch almost flipping the truck. Round bale saves the mailbox

JD Seller · Jan 27, 2018

kcm.MN: It must be the angle of the picture but those bales your seeing are every bit of fifty feet and five feet loser than the road bed.

RBoots · Jan 27, 2018

Ever drive a plow truck similarly equipped? Things are a lot different on the inside than they appear on the outside.

kcm.MN · Jan 28, 2018

JDS: Yes, looks like rolling ground there. Doesn't look like that much drop though, so am certain the camera angle is playing tricks. Still, those would cause lots of drifts here. ...Well, not so bad (in our area) if it's a north/south road, but the east/west roads here get hammered with drifts! The plow operators are (like most such operators) quite good, but long continuous runs of wind-blown, hard-pack snow is hard on the machinery.

I had a JD 4020 with a JD 7 1/2' snow blower. Wind would blow the snow in so hard that the blower would ride up and over the drifts, sometimes leaving almost no marks at all. Would have to bust it up with the loader bucket, then blow it out of the way. ...I keep forgetting that not all areas are this windy in the winter.

Philip d · Jan 28, 2018

Haha works for me!

Married2Allis · Jan 28, 2018

Too funny!

ed will · Jan 28, 2018

Hi, that's a good idea. What part of the country is that. What is your closest town? Ed Will Oliver BC

Texasmark1 · Jan 28, 2018

For a time my mother was secretary to a US Patent Attorney...drew up the papers for submission to US Patent Office. You can't imagine the things that came through that office. One was a mailbox and I guarantee you, any postal carrier in his right mind would pass right by it not knowing what it was nor it's use.

JD Seller · Jan 28, 2018

ed will: Cascade, iowa

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