How do you mount your donation box?

[cuonebay]

Hey everyene, I am almost finished with my donation box for this year. I have been thinking of a good way to mount the pole in the ground where it is simi-permanent. I don't want the pole to be there all year, but I don't want anyone to be able to pull it out of the ground and walk off with it. I was thinking about cementing a sleeve in the ground and slide the mounting pole down into the sleeve. I could drill a hole through the sleeve and post and put a bolt and lock nut on there. It could be taken off, but not without some tools and time. What do you guys and gals think? Any ideas would be appreciated. Have a good one.

[seven_siamese_cats]

Hey everyene, I am almost finished with my donation box for this year. I have been thinking of a good way to mount the pole in the ground where it is simi-permanent. I don't want the pole to be there all year, but I don't want anyone to be able to pull it out of the ground and walk off with it. I was thinking about cementing a sleeve in the ground and slide the mounting pole down into the sleeve. I could drill a hole through the sleeve and post and put a bolt and lock nut on there. It could be taken off, but not without some tools and time. What do you guys and gals think? Any ideas would be appreciated. Have a good one.

Instead of a bolt and nut, see if a RV hitch lock would work. Would take more time and more tools to get it out. Another option would be to have 'lugs' on the bottom of the post and 'slots' in the sleeve. Drop the post in, rotate it to keep it from coming out, and have a flange sticking out of the post and out of the ground which could be padlocked together to prevent it from rotating enough to be removed. Or have a cam mechanism inside the pipe, which is extended or retracted into the sleeve from inside the box itself to prevent removing the pipe from the sleeve.

[metallus2000]

I have an Oak tree in the yard that I was thinking of mounting screw in bolts into the tree so I could securely mount the box putting a heavy duty lock on it. The box will be metal and during the rest of the year I can put it away and mount something else there in relation to the season.

[zman]

Look at my website for the 2007 pics. The 5th picture has a good shot of my donation box. What I did is put a receiver post into a 5 gallon bucket and filled it with cement. I drilled some weep holes toward the top to allow water out at the top of the cement line. I dug a hole, put the bucket into it, and as you see, I covered it with rock. I then used a hitch lock to lock my donation box post to the receiver post. I keep that lock exposed above the rock so that it can be seen. I then remove the bucket, in my case fill the hole with rock till the following year. This could still be removed and stolen however. The box is out on the street with some traffic to worry about and my neighbors just a few feet away. Trying to get at this at night is not going to be easy at all. Plus I empty my donation box nightly and state so in my information flyer I have on the post as well.