I got side tracked making a new mailbox post for a larger mail box.

 

A test tenon

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed it with some polyurethane glue as the wood was pretty wet...

 

I split it out while fitting the tenon to the mortise using a crow bar to jack it out...

 

 

 

I hope to get it planted Sunday but I'm feeling kinda poorly right now... it's been raining so digging should be easy.

 

JT

Lookin good!  Much nicer than my half laps. 
 

I used a trick I saw on Samson Boat Co Tally Ho videos to cut the mortises straight. I clamped a square block up to my line and used that to guide back side of the chisel. It was my first time cutting a mortise and tenon joint and the guide block just made it so easy. I also used a block cut on a 45° to guide the chisel on the tapered part of the mortise... I should have taken photos of that.

 

JT

 Nice work JT. Excellent job on your M&T's. I need to redo mine. Cedar post finally gave out in the ground.

What glue will you use? Just curious.

18 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

What glue will you use? Just curious.

 

To repair the split? I used moisture activated polyurethane adhesive (gorilla original). That's the only place I used glue.

 

JT

Edited March 9, 20242 yr by jthornton

I attached the horizontal 4x4 with a pin.

 

JT

I don't bother making them fancy, lost 3 in one winter season alone. 

Nothing like trying to replace one in frozen ground. 

That's some nice work right there JT

Nice job! Should last a while!

10 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I don't bother making them fancy, lost 3 in one winter season alone. 

Nothing like trying to replace one in frozen ground. 

 

If I lived where you do my second mailbox post would be a 18" sonotube filled with rebar and concrete...

 

JT

12 hours ago, jthornton said:

 

If I lived where you do my second mailbox post would be a 18" sonotube filled with rebar and concrete...

 

JT

 

A six-inch pipe filled with concrete buried four feet into the ground is there now.

The plow drivers have only hit it once since then, and they had to drag the wing plow out of the ditch after doing so. 

That is one nice mail box post! Well done sir!!