Timber Framed Mailbox

Looks great. My first thought was “man that guy is sick of kids hitting his mailbox with bats” lol
I think at my old house I replaced my mail box once a year

-- Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might

Beautiful job! I hope you’ll share pictures of the house as well!

-- Mike, A Yooper with a drawl, http://www.artcentergraphics.com

Love it

-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.

If anyone makes the mistake of accidently hitting this mailbox it will be like hitting a tree. ;-) You have done a beautiful job on this project and it’s a real eye catcher. I like it very much. Congratulations and welcome to Lumberjocks.

-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

Nice !

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Go big or go home! Great job.

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

That mailbox stand looks built to withstand anything. Well done.

-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.

Now that’s a TX(cross that out) Indiana-sized mailbox. Should withstand twisters, trucks, teenagers or anything else that comes its way.

Sweet mail box.
I’m jealous of both it and the fact that you have a chain mortiser.

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Man, Man that is a DANDY! looks great will last many moons no doubt.

-- Soli Deo gloria!

If anyone makes the mistake of accidentally hitting this mailbox it will be like hitting a tree. ;-) You have done a beautiful job on this project and it s a real eye catcher. I like it very much. Congratulations and welcome to Lumberjocks.

- helluvawreck

When i lived in a small ND city the city snow removal truck destroyed mine—it was 2 feet from the road edge! My neighbor had seen it happen and put my mail in my storm door!
They would have paid for it with about 5 hours of paperwork. —I just built a new one and moved it farther from the “HIT ZONE”!

Hopefully yours is around decades from now!

-- Wood rescue is good for the environment and me! just rjR

Very impressive work. You’ve made this “everyday” item a truly unique and beautiful piece.

-- Rick, Tennessee, John 3:16

awesome work, Tommy !!

did you treat the ground contact portion with anything ?

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-- there is no educational alternative to having a front row seat in the School of Hard Knocks. --

That is a nice looking project.
I believe that is strong enough to survive any drive by baseball bat swings!

-- "It's fine in practise but it will never work in theory"

Very nice!

JCamp, I had a relative who had a sort of arms race of mailboxes to a kids old jeep. He kept putting up mailboxes, kid kept running them down. Mailbox went from little steel fence post, to 4×4 post to a little masonry structure to finally, a massive reinforced concrete and brick masonry structure with a cast iron door. Unfortunately the kid didn’t take the hint and rammed his old 80’s jeep into it at high speed and it killed him. He felt awful, just wanted his mailbox to stay up, didn’t want to kill the poor kid.

-- Ted