How many people want to get the plowman?

 

He has destroyed my mailbox 5 times in the past 9 years. And knocked it half over more. I have watched him do it a few times and ran outside but that was fruitless. I want to get the SOB but there is really no reasonable avenue for vengeance. The only thing I could come up with is to wait in a tree, paintball his truck, and then go try to find it at the nudy bar on the edge of town.

 

I keep moving the mailbox back further onto my property. Now I have to clear snow and ice off my own property so the mailman can pull up the the mailbox. When there is a mailbox. Sometimes there are just two stacked milk crates with a mailbox bungee tied to the top.

That aint him, but I bet he knows him.

i say fill a balloon with paint and whip it at the windshield

Why haven't you engineered some ridiculous mailbox post? I would think you would have an 8" concrete filled steel pipe for a mailbox post by now.

 

I would have. Or maybe an I beam.

 

Why haven't you engineered some ridiculous mailbox post? I would think you would have an 8" concrete filled steel pipe for a mailbox post by now.

 

I would have. Or maybe an I beam.

 

 

You think it didn't cross my mind?

 

Cost-benefit analysis. It's more trouble for me.

 

Not a post, offensive bollards. And angled guard, so to speak. There is a guy near me with I-beams anchored in concrete to prevent people from running cars onto his property. They work surprisingly well.

 

If you really want to do it defensively, do what they do up in northern Maine. Armor the mailbox and hang it from a tree with heavy chains.

 

I just want to get the plowman.

You will need a mailbox post the size of Gibraltar Rock to mess up a plow, but I imagine it would certainly be worth it.

We had a rash of mailboxes being knocked over in our area.  Probably kids with a baseball bat.

 

My father built a mailbox out of 8" square steel tubing - 3/8" thickness and a 4" square steel post.  He set this in a concrete footing 3' deep and 18" diameter.   He never had his mailbox damaged again.

 

One night he hears a crash.  Guy in a pickup truck hit the mailbox.  Mailbox is laying on its side, truck parts all over the road.  The driver was fine but shaken up.  The truck was totaled. 

 

Dad stood the mailbox and attached footing up in it's hole and it's been there since.

 

Lots of homes around here have a mailbox on a long swinging arm that can be rotated out of the way before the snow comes.

We had a rash of mailboxes being knocked over in our area.  Probably kids with a baseball bat.

 

My father built a mailbox out of 8" square steel tubing - 3/8" thickness and a 4" square steel post.  He set this in a concrete footing 3' deep and 18" diameter.   He never had his mailbox damaged again.

 

One night he hears a crash.  Guy in a pickup truck hit the mailbox.  Mailbox is laying on its side, truck parts all over the road.  The driver was fine but shaken up.  The truck was totaled. 

 

Dad stood the mailbox and attached footing up in it's hole and it's been there since.

 

Lots of homes around here have a mailbox on a long swinging arm that can be rotated out of the way before the snow comes.

Good ideas, had mine taken out by a plow 2 times in the last 2 years. 

There's a slight ethical decision with reinforced mailboxes. I would feel kinda bad if someone killed themselves on it.

 

There's a slight ethical decision with reinforced mailboxes. I would feel kinda bad if someone killed themselves on it.

 

 

Should I cut down all the trees in my front yard for them, too?

My mail box used to get smashed by the plow truck or another driver about once or twice a year. I put a swivel in the middle of the post so now if something hits my mailbox it just turns and it has not been broken in 3 years.

Get a 3 foot diameter boulder or larger, paint it white, put your house number on it and put the mailbox next to it.  Your box will never move again.   Be aware that  you may be awakened every once in a while by a large banging sound and swearing. 

I snow plow, if someone did anything to purposely cause damage to my vehicle I would spend every storm building the biggest mound of snow in front of their driveway. They wouldn't get out till August. Plow trucks don't intentionally damage mailboxes. When we move snow off the roads so you can drive safety the heavy snow can push over a mailbox. It happens, suck it up!

There's a slight ethical decision with reinforced mailboxes. I would feel kinda bad if someone killed themselves on it.

 

Then put the box on the leeward side of a freaking large oak tree.

 

In New England, they have boxes that either rotate out of the way, or have a rope with a counter weight on a lever - normally the box is approx 10' in the air...

 

 

 

Or another idea:

 

Found this picture of Mipafox preparing for a snow day.

 

I snow plow, if someone did anything to purposely cause damage to my vehicle I would spend every storm building the biggest mound of snow in front of their driveway. They wouldn't get out till August. Plow trucks don't intentionally damage mailboxes. When we move snow off the roads so you can drive safety the heavy snow can push over a mailbox. It happens, suck it up!

 

If you can't avoid large, visible objects with your snow plow, perhaps you shouldn't be plowing.

Friend of mine had her card hit by the county plow truck while it was legally parked in her driveway. Yes, her driveway.  Plow jumped the curb and hit the car. County will pay her deductible only to get her car fixed.  Can't sue them and some other dumb reasons the way insurance is done in this state. Leave it to NJ!

 

I snow plow, if someone did anything to purposely cause damage to my vehicle I would spend every storm building the biggest mound of snow in front of their driveway. They wouldn't get out till August. Plow trucks don't intentionally damage mailboxes. When we move snow off the roads so you can drive safety the heavy snow can push over a mailbox. It happens, suck it up!

 

 

You'll never know it was me! I'll mark your truck and then find it.

 

Suck it up!

I plow snow too.  My advice, if you can't drive it, don't buy it.

My town routinely replaces mailboxes knocked over by township plows.  Happens all the time.  Ever try calling your town administrator and ask about it?

 

I've spoken to him about it and was told they don't even bother working through the township insurance company, the town just sends public works out to replace it.  The ins. policy is it is covered if the actual plow hits it but not if snow from the plow hits the mailbox causing the damage.

 

I can see where the larger towns might be a bit more stubborn, but small towns are usually easy to deal with if you approach it the right way.

 

If it's caused by your neighbor's private contractor, well then you're probably out of luck unless you want to take it to small claims court.

F that, I keeps it real!

F that, I keeps it real!

That's what I was sayin!

Spend a couple dollars at home Depot and get the 4ft red reflectors to place on your property line.

 

About 5 years ago the municipal plow effer took 2ft x 5ft of my brand new driveway up. I put the reflectors up before each wnow storm and have not had an issue since.

How can you hate a delicious lunch like this??

 

 

How can you hate a delicious lunch like this??

 

plunch.jpg

 

 

What is the coat of arms on that mug?

DeerSlayer, you crack me up

 

That's what's going on inside my skull, though

DeerSlayer, you crack me up :DThat's what's going on inside my skull, though

Lol it was the first thing I thought of when I imagined how to Eff with the plow guy I like the big smile on the soldiers face as he is pulling the spikes across the road in the picture too, he is really enjoying himself! B)

When I lived on Jugtown Mountain, my wife worked for a pressure treated lumber co. She was able to get me an 8' long 6X6 that was pressure treated for use as saltwater pilings...damn thing weighed 13 lbs per foot. I buried 4-1/2' in the ground with 6 bags of Sakrete. The plow hit it and stopped...not because he hit the brakes, because that little ol' wooden post wasn't going anywhere.

No idea, the Ploughman's lunch was the first thing that popped in my head seeing the thread title. Some generic picture of one. Much nicer than the ones I have seen in real life

   

What is the coat of arms on that mug?