I am not sure what is going on here.
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Looks like a LARGE filing system of some sort. Punch cards maybe? And they're on trolley/lifts so they can access the drawers/cabinets.
worked with a guy that lived on a township road in the country. someone was driving around at night knocking mailboxes over.Got his twice. He took a 5" piece of metal pipe, dug a four foot ohole, put the pipe in and filled it full of cement, then put the mailbox on top. Late one night he heard a pickup driving down the road and wham!
My neighbor did the same. We live on the outside of an uphill curve about 2 miles from a hole in the wall bar, and he's always losing his mailbox; the power pole in front of his house (last guy drove THROUGH the pole and took a six foot section right out of it, and the top of the pole simply fell straight down next to the sheared off base); and I keep getting tracks through my yard.
He got some 6" schedule 80 iron pipe, sunk it into the ground with a concrete footer foundation, mounted the mailbox on it, and filled both the pole and the box with concrete. After a young chickie hit it with her little econobox in the snow, and it caused MASSIVE damage to the car (airbags, core support, motor mounts, engine cracked, K-frame cracked)...the cops told him he had to remove it. His answer? "They should be driving on the road, not on my lawn. **** off. Plant a guard rail if it bothers you that much".
His mailbox is still there.
Me, I'm borrowing a tractor this spring to move rocks (like, 800-lb rocks) out of the woods to build a stone wall at the shoulder in front of MY house, since I have some nice blue spruce coming up there that I don't want getting mowed down by drunk morons. I've already called MDOT and gotten approval from them (since they refuse to install a guard rail like we've
both asked for now). I could pile lots of little rocks, but then these morons wouldn't get STUCK on them, forcing them to call a tow truck...and giving me enough time to...uh..."introduce myself" and call the cops to file a report, and get damages to my property paid for by their insurance.
And, it'll look nice. I have stone home, and there are stone fence all around the area...it'll fit right in.