Our new mailbox
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Topic: Our new mailbox
Posted By: olivetroad
Subject: Our new mailbox
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2016 at 8:50pm
We rolled this out and the mail lady said it is the perfect height for her little Honda suv, so it is officially in use!
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Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2016 at 9:36pm
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I like it! I have been thinking of updating my mail box setup and was thinking about doing the same thing with a 712 but it was sold. lol ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Auntwayne
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2016 at 9:46pm
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Like Don said, Want to replace mine except the 310 still runs like new. Got me scheming now.
------------- Dad always said," If you have one boy, you have a man. If you have two boys, you have two boys". "ALLIS EXPRESS" |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2016 at 9:58pm
| Wait, what was wrong with the tractor? |
Posted By: Orange Tractors
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 12:26am
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I like it, but my mailbox is across the road, and I am not going to put some thing like that on the neighbors property. Robert |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 12:29am
| Creston...will you help me load it? |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 5:26am
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The 4WD behind it looks interesting......... hint hint. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: olivetroad
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 6:35am
Versatile 118 - it's shy about showing its face on this forum! |
Posted By: olivetroad
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 6:36am
Better watch it, tampering with a mailbox is a federal offense. You'll end up in one of THOSE prisons....... |
shameless (ne) wrote:Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 6:38am
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I tried having a decorator mail box but it got vandalized all the time. i switched back to the 5 dollar ones and the vandals must think they are not worth the time to mess with. Course my decorator ones were in JD Drag.  |
Posted By: WDman1951
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 6:57am
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Literally the best mailbox I've ever seen that's amazing ------------- 1951 WD 1945 C 1936 WC |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 7:01am
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What year is that versy? Would be fun on a tractor drive. We just had a tractor drive on Saturday and a guy drove his Deere 8020 with no cab. Wait, just spotted a silver bullet behind the versy. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 8:15am
| Was the 8020 the one with the Detroit diesel? |
Posted By: olivetroad
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 8:16am
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Hello Lonn - it is a 1967, it has the small Clark axles. It also has PTO which is nice. We have a tractor drive around here in August, that is what inspired to paint it. Go Gleaner! |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 9:09am
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Nice old tractor and she is looking nice with the new paint. I have a friend with a 700 still running the old 555, I over hauled it ten years ago it's got way over 7,000 hrs and still going strong. Your 118 have the 555 or 504 under the hood?
------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: olivetroad
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 9:25am
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It still has the original 352 Cummins V6. Good luck getting internal parts for that thing! We had to make a new lower radiator hose, but Napa was able to get everything else. I've got a nice 700 that we still use, they won't let me drive it in the antique tractor ride as it's not older than a 1970. We also have a pair of 800s, and a 876 that we farm with. I bought a 555 last year with a bad engine. It had 8 like new tires that we put over on one of the 800's. So if you ever need parts for your 555, come help yourself. |
Posted By: BenGiBoy
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 9:32am
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Looks nice. The Versatile shouldn't be shy, it isn't green! I like the looks of it, looks fun to drive, and it looks like the operator might be out of his own dust cloud because the seat is so far forwards! ------------- '39 Model B Tractors are cheaper than girls, remember that! |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 9:35am
352? man that's going back there.lol Thanks for the help for 555 parts but I run when I here 555 parts are hard to find and prices for parts are high.  I get out of working on them by saying it will not fit in the shop. ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 12:31pm
Well...if a stanger in a "Mysterious vehicle" drives by with a stick out the window and knocks the mailbox off the tractor, it's not a mailbox anymore! Just a garden tractor! We might just happen to stumble upon it after the "accident" Lol Yeah, I'll help you load it Shameless!
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Posted By: Rltool
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 12:49pm
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Not as decked out as the one up above. But this is my new mailbox. Boy does it make me nervous being so far from the house. Ray W. http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/rltool/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2ADAB3F4-2CD4-4D5F-8343-33A9AE44B0BC_zpsb68qkdgu.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/rltool/media/Mobile%20Uploads/DCEA6838-0C15-4DB5-BDBD-BCBCA78A9D25_zpso2mwfbqc.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 1:22pm
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Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 1:35pm
| not a fed offense OLive....unless it has mail inside it! and I love them old veratiles! other old 4x4 tractors I like were the old IH 4100's. yeah,yeah....and of course all the A/C's! |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 4:24pm
My mailbox as I put it up a few years ago. The road snow plow has been hard on it and broken the pipe threads loose from the top of the barrel so I've rebuilt it with more flexibility and ability to swing holding the back of the plank down with a chain and holding the main pipe up with unistrut brackets. Gerald J. |
Posted By: ACmowerguy
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 10:33pm
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Olive, that tractor looks familiar. I saw that 608 at the Roger Krieg auction about a year ago, then it showed up on Wheeler's next consignment and sold for less than half as much. ------------- 10 various B-series garden tractors, AC Homesteader8, 416 hydro,710 gt, 914, 916H, 917H, 920D, and many misc attachments |
Posted By: olivetroad
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2016 at 10:40pm
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It must be a different one, I bought it for $50.00 at a consignment auction in North eastern Illinois. Or it is quite the traveler! Did the one at wheelers have a deck? |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 7:19am
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Gerald I love the Cen-Pe-Co drum. Dont see em like that around here Most people in N Michigan build there mail box posts with a spring so if plowed snow hits it it will swing away Post has to give too. If someone runs off the road and the post doesnt give way and they hit it you are liable.... ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: BenGiBoy
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 12:44pm
That is weird.....they are the ones that drove off the road! ------------- '39 Model B Tractors are cheaper than girls, remember that! |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 1:48pm
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I thought F12s & F14s were made to be mailbox supports!!! LOL
------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 4:44pm
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There is a Minnesota standard mail box post that has two bends and a swivel between them. So the mail box can move when plowed and gravity puts it back. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/stateaid/trafficsafety/mailbox/download.pdf" rel="nofollow - http://www.dot.state.mn.us/stateaid/trafficsafety/mailbox/download.pdf I added a sack or two of sand to my barrel to hold it in place and in the winter it gets frozen. So far the barrel hasn't moved, the mail box has. Gerald J. |
Posted By: ACmowerguy
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 10:14pm
I think it must be a traveler. Here are pics I took at the sale. Same dealer decal.  Same aftermarket seat, headlights, and taillights.  ------------- 10 various B-series garden tractors, AC Homesteader8, 416 hydro,710 gt, 914, 916H, 917H, 920D, and many misc attachments |
Posted By: alleyyooper
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2016 at 6:01am
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On my road none of the pictured mail boxes would last a month. Lake people down the road never taught their kids respect of others property. Most set back off the road a lane, most have some type of amour around them and since they will wrap a chain around the post many have steel post set in concrete. Mine is 4x4 steel post set 5' down in the ground with 6 inches of concrete at the bottom of the hole and red clay nearly to the top and 8 inches of concrete finishes the post off. Box is 3/16 plate steel, has a list to it after the Fed X driver backed into it bending the bumper of the truck and folding it into the box. Yes it sets off the road a whole lane and a half too. Makes it just like if they run off the road and hit a tree. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/oldgrumpy/media/Michigan%20snow/010914_1246_zpsa4cdbf29.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  http://smg.photobucket.com/user/oldgrumpy/media/Michigan%20snow/010914_1243_zpscec0a230.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: alleyyooper
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2016 at 6:14am
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Those above wouldn't last a month on my road. Mine is 4x4 steel post buried 5' in concrete, 3/16 plate steel set back off the road. Yes it dose have a list to it. Fex X driver backed his truck into it folding the bumper into the right side sheet metal. that is what you need on my road. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/oldgrumpy/media/Michigan%20snow/010914_1243_zpscec0a230.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"> http://smg.photobucket.com/user/oldgrumpy/media/Michigan%20snow/010914_1246_zpsa4cdbf29.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"> snow plow leaves the pile about 2footin front of it. Al
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Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2016 at 11:50am
I agree, but most of the time the mail box is not on your property, if its alongside the road its in the right-of-way. In an accident, say the road is icy, and someone slides off the road and you have a post that doesnt shear off and they hit it and it causes injury, they can sue you. If you look at wooden sign posts along side federal highway you will see they are a standard treated 4x6. About a foot or so up you will see about a 2" hole drilled through the post. This is the shear point.......... Years ago there was a guy about 10 miles from the house that was having trouble with the local youth running over his mail box. So he set is post in the ground, but about 2 inches deep he welded a big piece of 1/4 plate to it. Next time they hit it post went over, plate stood up and hung them up right there. CAUGHT red handed. They sued the homeowner for car damages and won. Homeowner had to pay for damage done to underside of vehicle caused by the plate............... ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: BenGiBoy
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2016 at 7:37pm
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Don, that is interesting. Oh, that makes some sense, I didn't think of the fact that it isn't on your property actually. It still amazes me at what people can get sued for and the people that sued win..... ------------- '39 Model B Tractors are cheaper than girls, remember that! |
Posted By: alleyyooper
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2016 at 3:47am
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Shoot here in Michigan they can loose control for going to fast go 100yrds into your lawn and hit a shade tree sue you and win. It is not funny but the truth. And those kids again got away with driving over the fellows mail box even though caught red handed. Some judge would say they were sowing their wild oats, Never mind the cost and work for you to fix their mess. Al
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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2016 at 6:59am
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Technically, at least here in MN, you own the land up to the center of the road but you gave up the right of way to that land, voluntarily or by force or court order. Either way, in our county or maybe the entire state, if you even have an old fence line that been in the same spot for a hundred years but 1 inche into the right of way, you can be sued if someone gets hurt when or if they hit that fence. Some farmers on back roads still fence in the ditch for cattle during the summer but in today's lawsuit happy society, they are playing with fire. It doesn't matter if the accident was their fault, you are still going to be judge liable by today's courts. We had a local farmer who had always fenced in his ditches ever since I can remember but one of his neighbor's didn't like him and turned him in. In the end the Sheriff and a couple deputies stood guard while the county-hired fence builders moved his still hot fence out of the right of way. They put a very nice fence up with wood poles and 4 or 5 strands of high tensile wire. They did it with the farmer standing on one side with his herd of cattle right there and deputies standing on the other side. They didn't have a court order to enter the property to turn off the electric fence but the fencing people were able to get it done anyhow. Then the county added cost of the fence to the farmer's property tax. Dad was forced to be there too because he sat on the township board at the time. There are still farmers around who fence in the ditches but they must have more agreeable neighbors because no one has made a fuss about them yet. BTW the fencing is the small light 3/8" round posts and 16 gauge wire that really would never cause much problem if you hit it but I suppose a 1500# cow might. The price of living in a commie state. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2016 at 7:16am
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The farms mailbox is mounted to a 12" piece of electric pole. Been that way for 50 years. If someone hit's it and wants to sue, well that's what insurance is for. Sure as heck will not change it now. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: 7060
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2016 at 12:15pm
| I like it. If it had a deck on it I would say you wouldn't even have to mow around your mailbox lol, but I see yours is on concrete. |