Ship Anchor Chain Mailbox Post

Your description in the link mentions a 3' x 3' 1/2" plate for the base. The base mainly needs to keep it from tipping & depending on where the center of mass is, the tipping force may be minimal. E.g., if you made a coil on the ground with an arm reaching up, you wouldn't need a plate at all.

Hey ... make it look like a snake, with the mailbox being the head, a coil on the ground, and a tail reaching back. A couple of fierce eyes painted on the mailbox. That would be an attention getter.

No experience with this other than thinking the "frozen" chain was pretty cool looking since I was a child.

A quick image search comes up with quite a few examples though:

Somebody even used a chain much like yours here:

I rather like this one:

On 5/23/2019 9:26 AM, Leon Fisk wrote: ...

Ummm ... that guy says that he has to abide by "...'break away' laws. If a car hits it, it has to be able to give". Does IL have such a law?

It's a pretty common requirement and if I recall correctly Iggy has mentioned it before ;-)

When I saw your chain it reminded me of Andrew's Instagram post from a while back. Didn't feel like trying to find it again but he posted another one today :)

I think his links may be a little bit bigger.

Iggy, if you haven't already seen Andrew's stuff you might want to look around a bit. He's always searching for more and you come across the darnedest things too...

That's a nice idea. But something has to be buried in the ground, or else the whole thing will be stolen by scrappers.

i SORT OF LIKE THIS:

I will probably retain the swingaway thing that I have on my mailbox.

It does and it is a good law. I have to make sure that the mailbox swings away if hit.