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Posted by Bobduck on February 02, 2001 at 08:35:05 from (209.206.229.66):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No Sense of Humor posted by B.C. on February 02, 2001 at 07:28:17:
He built this mailbox in the late 1960's. As I recall it is 8 times actual size. It's patterned after a Ruger Single Six. The barrel is 6" auger tubing. The ejector rod the drive shaft off an old Plymouth. The cylinder is from an old gas cylinder that used to stand outside the house and provide fuel to the kitchen stove. The curved rear portion of the cylinder is the differential housing off somekind of a Chevy truck. The rest is just fabricated from sheat metal. It is supported by a large pipe up through the butt which slides over a shaft. this shaft is welded to an old tractor rim which is buried in the ground. This way the "mailbox" and be swiveled to one side to allow big trucks to pass. When we used to sell cattle we could almost always count on the big semi trucks that came to haul the cattle away would run over our mailbox. So he built this so it could be swiveled out of the way. I remember when we hauled it into a local body shop in the back of our pickup to be painted it got a lot of attention. Bobduck
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