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Originally Posted by GWN7 View Post
There is a house a couple blocks away that is on the end of a T. Forced left or right. He got tired of people parking their cars in his living room so being a railway worker he got some used rail and sunk 10' lengths of it encased in 8" of concrete with a heavy chain strung between. No more problems with cars hitting his house.
I had a friend with a house like that. He tried to plant trees but they would never get big because some idiot would crash a car into them and flatten the tree. He finally put up a LARGE berm of dirt and built a rail road tie beam wall around it. The dirt had not even fully settled when a large delivery truck tested the build quality. That truck was indeed stopped by a wall of dirt and rail road ties. The entire family was home in the living room right were the truck would have plowed through.
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