Mailbox Post

[Shipj0]

Wooden mailbox post was rotting out so decided to practice with my new Hypertherm 30air and make a new one. Posts were band saw cut and bears were plasma. Welded with a original version Miller 211, .030 ER70-S6 wire. Did not use Autoset but settings were per the chart. 1/8" steel, sprayed cold galvanizing paint inside before I put on the end caps and painted outside with rattle cans. Covered part that will go into ground with asphalt sealant for roofing and gutters and let dry. I could not decide if I needed small air holes in the tubing would be better or worse for preventing internal for internal corrosion so I put in small holes just under the "T" joint in the back. Either way will probably outlast me.

[FlaJoe]

In most places someone would STEAL any mail box post as nice as that one!

[Baloo2327]

I like it. I'm going to have to do the same for my mailbox next spring, so I might steal your idea

[N2 Welding]

Bears look good.

[Shipj0]

I like it. I'm going to have to do the same for my mailbox next spring, so I might steal your idea

No greater compliment than imitation. Thanks. //Shipj0//

[Shipj0]

Bears look good.

Thanks. Bear (on log) was a copy of a wooden bear on my neighbor's picket fence in his front yard and then I free handed the log underneath so it didn't look like it was floating in midair. Since the mailbox post is in his yard, asked if he would be ok if I copied it for the mailbox. Bear climbing was a silhouette photo from the internet that I scaled up with a pencil. Was supposed to be a Sow on a limb with a yearling cub climbing up behind but the cub somehow grew into a second year on the paper. I thought of painting the post white with some grey brown highlights like a birch tree but the red went with the trim on both our houses. //Shipj0//

[Shipj0]

In most places someone would STEAL any mail box post as nice as that one!

I have heard that a few times and always appreciate the compliment ... and sentiment. Hoping I planted it well enough to keep it buried. Not sure protecting your mailbox is a viable legal defense, even in Alaska. //Shipj0//

[FlaJoe]

My mother found two metal ornamental cranes about 3 feet high in antique shop and paid a couple of hundred dollars for them. They were stolen the first night after she put them out in her yard. Her church had some similar ones made out of brass or copper and they set them in concrete but thieves came in with a saw and cut them off at the legs. Their brass pump for their fountain was inside a small building with a locked door but thieves kicked in the door and stole the motor, the pump and all of the copper water lines and valves and all of the wiring.

They're having to put guards out around houses under construction around here every night because thieves will come in and strip all of the copper pipe, the wring, aluminium air conditioners, etc in a single night. I've had several friends that have had the brass radiators stolen right out of their trucks.

[Shipj0]

My mother found two metal ornamental cranes about 3 feet high in antique shop and paid a couple of hundred dollars for them. They were stolen the first night after she put them out in her yard. Her church had some similar ones made out of brass or copper and they set them in concrete but thieves came in with a saw and cut them off at the legs. Their brass pump for their fountain was inside a small building with a locked door but thieves kicked in the door and stole the motor, the pump and all of the copper water lines and valves and all of the wiring.

They're having to put guards out around houses under construction around here every night because thieves will come in and strip all of the copper pipe, the wring, aluminium air conditioners, etc in a single night. I've had several friends that have had the brass radiators stolen right out of their trucks.

and if you or the police shoot them, its a big public trial and off to jail. Sad state of affairs for sure.