Provide Custom Painted Mailboxes and Stands

SAE:

Description:

Providing custom painted mailboxes and stands is an excellent project for students to enhance their woodworking and/or masonry skills learned in the agricultural mechanics classes. Students would construct mailboxes and stands of either wood or concrete after school in the agricultural mechanics lab or home shop. The potential to sell these mailboxes and stands is excellent. This will enable the student to develop his/her personal relation skills. Selling mailboxes and stands will aid the student financially and help develop their record keeping skills.

Written by Dana Perkins

Factors To Consider	Ranking: 1 = lowest 10 = highest
Time required	7
Investment	5
Equipment needed	4
Skills required	6
Facilities required	4
Land required	2
Labor Intensity	5
Potential for income	6
Transportation required	2
Expansion possibilities	5
Expertise needed	4
Advertising needed	5
Susceptible to disease	N/A
Susceptible to insects	N/A
Suitable for residential areas	6
	Other (specify)
Length of production cycle	Year round
Regional	Statewide
When to start project	Anytime

Notes:

Skills that the student must develop:
1. Figuring bill of materials
2. Purchasing materials
3. Laying out mailbox and stand
4. Measuring and marking boards
5. Cutting boards
6. Assembling mailboxes and stands (nailing, boring holes, attaching bolts, etc.)
7. Using pressure treated lumber
8. Mixing concrete
9. Placing concrete in form
10. Finishing concrete
11. Curing concrete
12. Painting mailbox and stand
13. Marketing mailboxes and stands
14. Keeping records
15. Making plans