BULLDOZER GEAR MAILBOX!

THIS PICTURE OF MY

MAILBOX 

WAS ACTUALLY TAKEN ABOUT

5 YEARS AGO THERE SINCE HAS

BEEN MORE WEAR AND RUST 

BUT FOR SOME REASON I DIDN'T 

TAKE A PICTURE RIGHT BEFORE I 

STARTED... SO IT LOOKS A LITTLE

BETTER IN THIS PIC THAN IT

REALLY WAS. IT HAS SINCE BEEN 

HIT BY THE LAWNMOWER AND TORE 

OUT OF THE GROUND.BIRDS ALSO 

LOVED USING IT AS A TARGET!

BEFORE...

SO IT WAS A PLAIN JANE MAILBOX

WITH NO FLAIR. I WANTED TO

SPUCE IT UP A BIT AND

GET RID OF THE RUST. 

AFTER I TOOK IT APART AND

STARTED PAINTING IT I REMEMBERED

TO TAKE THIS PIC.

THE PAINT I DECIDED TO USE

FOR THE MAILBOX WAS A METALLIC

COPPER PAINT THAT I GOT AT LOWES! 

LET ME TELL YOU I LOVED THIS

PAINT. IT MADE MY MAILBOX

LOOK LIKE IT WAS AN ACTUAL

COPPER MAILBOX. I HAD SAW ONE AT

MARSHALL'S THAT I WAS GOING TO BUY FOR ABOUT $40 DOLLARS BUT WHEN I 

WENT BACK TO GET IT, IT WAS GONE.

SO THIS IS HOW I WENT ABOUT GETTING THE SAME LOOK FOR LESS.

MY NEXT FEATURE WAS AN OLD

BULLDOZER GEAR WHICH HAD JUST

THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF PATINA, AND

RUST TO GIVE THE MAILBOX THE LOOK I WANTED. ONLY PROBLEM IT WEIGHS ABOUT 6OO POUNDS. I GOT THE OLD GEAR FROM A STONE QUARRY THAT HAD DISGARDED IT. IM NOT THE ONE 

THAT MOVED IT BELIEVE ME. 

SO THE MAILBOX HAD TO BE DUG OUT

AND THE GEAR PUT DOWN THEN 

THE MAILBOX WOULD BE LOWERED 

INTO THE HOLE AND FILLED.

IT'S ALOT BIGGER THAN IT

LOOKS IN THE PICTURE.

I ALSO RE-STAINED THE

POST A DARKER COLOR AND SPRAYED

THE ADDRESS NUMBERS IN THE

COPPER FINISH AS WELL.

NEXT WAS TO ADD THE MAILBOX

BACK TO THE TOP OF THE POST 

AND IT SURE TURNED OUT PRETTY....

THE NUMBERS ARE FROM HOBBY LOBBY

AND I PAINTED THE FLAG WITH SOME

GOOD OLE ORB SPRAY PAINT.

I WANTED TO DRESS UP THE 

MAILBOX A LITTLE SO I DECIDED

TO PLANT SOME MUMS AROUND THE

BOTTOM AND SOME DECORATIVE

ROCKS...EACH SEASON I PLAN ON

DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT INSIDE

THE OLD GEAR.

AFTER...

I THINK IT'S A PRETTY ORIGINAL

MAILBOX. NOT A

SINGLE ONE LIKE IT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

AFTER DOING MY MAILBOX I

STARTED NOTICING EVERY MAILBOX

I WOULD PASS BY IN MY 

NEIGHBORHOOD...

A FEW GOOD ONES BUT ALOT

OF VERY NEGLECTED ONES 

HERES A FEW... I FELT LIKE A 

MAILBOX STALKER WHEN I TOOK 

THESE PICTURES.

I WILL CLASSIFY THESE AS THE

FASHION POLICE WOULD, IN THIS

CASE THE MAILBOX POLICE, AS 

DO'S AND DONT'S THESE 

ARE THE DONT'S I HOPE

MY NEIGHBORS DON'T SEE THIS

POST BUT IT WAS FUN TO DO!

AND THE BEST DO'S THAT I SAW..

THIS ONE I THOUGHT WAS CUTE BUT

NEEDS A LITTLE PAINT AND SOME

WORK AROUND THE BOTTOM.

AND I LOVE THE CORN STALKS 

AROUND THIS ONE.

THERE WERE ALOT MORE

DONT'S THAN DO'S !

WHAT CATEGORY DO YOU FALL IN?

I HAD ALOT OF FUN DOING THIS 

POST I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT.

AND I HOPE YOU LIKED MY 

BULLDOZER GEAR MAILBOX!