Additional U-channel Support

[1MoreSignGuy]

Hello Y'all,

As the thread states I'm looking for some alternatives for U-channel support. I have a client who we installed some U-channels with a STIFF-PLATE and the hardware associated with it. People in their parking lot keep on running into the poll and bending/ultimately snapping the U-channel. When asked if they would pull their vehicles forward they were met with a stern "NO". I recommended that they install parking blocks but they aren't able to do that apparently. They want additional support to try and prevent this from happening but I'm stumped on what else we can do.
Have any of y'all ever come across this situation and what did you do to create that extra support? I appreciate any help.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Curb stops. That's what they are for.
Maybe they don't want them for plowing? Can move the sign back too or spring loaded base

 

[1MoreSignGuy]

Curb stops. That's what they are for.
Maybe they don't want them for plowing? Can move the sign back too or spring loaded base

Definitely not plowing, were in PDX and this place shuts down when there's a mm of snow lmao. I'm trying to stay away from moving them back so we don't have holes in their concrete.

Do you have a source for the spring loaded base?

 

[Boudica]

put a NO PARKING sign on it.

 

[1MoreSignGuy]

put a NO PARKING sign on it.

This is really the only way

 

[Black Star]

I've used these and had good outcomes. https://www.myparkingsign.com/Sign-Posts/Impact-Resistant-Flexible-Signpost/SKU-K-2805

They are spendy but they work as intended.

 

[Gettin'By]

Mark it as handicapped parking only? Put the sign on the existing U-channel.
Depending on how it works in your area, just have 'em towed off at owner's expense.

 

[Boudica]

Mark it as handicapped parking only? Put the sign on the existing U-channel.
Depending on how it works in your area, just have 'em towed off at owner's expense.

but then people with a handicap permit will run into the pole. If they just say No parking period - they all get towed.

I was going to ask - what is the purpose of the pole? is there already a sign on it? If someone is parked there no one could see the sign anyway.

 

[JBurton]

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I was going to ask - what is the purpose of the pole?

This does seem like a critical piece of the puzzle, like, they've been asked to pull up so it doesn't get bent, but do they not care about their bumpers in the first place? Does the sign say a$$holes only?

 

[CanuckSigns]

So they back up, hit and bend the post and just put it in park and go shopping? Any time I've ever hit a curb or something in a parking lot I have to drive away and not come back for a week due to the embarrassment, I can't believe someone would hit it and think "this is fine"

 

[Boudica]

So they back up, hit and bend the post and just put it in park and go shopping? Any time I've ever hit a curb or something in a parking lot I have to drive away and not come back for a week due to the embarrassment, I can't believe someone would hit it and think "this is fine"

Well, it is Portlandia after all.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

There was a handicap parking sign I hit at Aldi. Crushed my front bumper and pushed the sign over. It had a concrete bollard around the base. Before you all start blaming me, the sign itself was missing and I couldn't see the bollard in front of the truck hood...being 3' tall and all. Fact is, even the concrete bollard didn't hold up.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

So they back up, hit and bend the post and just put it in park and go shopping? Any time I've ever hit a curb or something in a parking lot I have to drive away and not come back for a week due to the embarrassment, I can't believe someone would hit it and think "this is fine"

Yeah no shit. Do a quick look around to make sure nobody saw you and park a row over.

 

[JBurton]

Yeah no shit. Do a quick look around to make sure nobody saw you and park a row over.

This isn't the Arkansas way, just leave it in gear and go over it with your super swampers, eliminate the witnesses, case closed.

 

[unclebun]

 

[Gino]

There was a handicap parking sign I hit at Aldi. Crushed my front bumper and pushed the sign over. It had a concrete bollard around the base. Before you all start blaming me, the sign itself was missing and I couldn't see the bollard in front of the truck hood...being 3' tall and all. Fact is, even the concrete bollard didn't hold up.
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WOW !!! You're only three feet tall. How do you see over the steering wheel ?? Do you sit on a milk box with extensions on your shoes for the pedals ??

 

[Boudica]

That guy looks pretty pleased with himself.

 

[Gino]

That guy looks pretty pleased with himself.

You'd look happy too, if you lived through it all after that bird ran into your truck.

 

[Boudica]

You'd look happy too, if you lived through it all after that bird ran into your truck.

That must have been one fat bird

 

[JBurton]

WOW !!! You're only three feet tall. How do you see over the steering wheel ?? Do you sit on a milk box with extensions on your shoes for the pedals ??

I saw the low hanging fruit too...

That guy looks pretty pleased with himself.

You can tell it's his last day, director of safety, he always told steven to give more berth when taking this blind corner, and his comments about 'one of these days...' are finally validated. You can see the retirement cake dreams in the twinkle in his eye.

the sign itself was missing and I couldn't see the bollard in front of the truck hood...being 3' tall and all.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt with this narrow post blending into the background, but this kinda validates all those whining about how tall stock truck hoods are getting and how impossible to see a kid could be. Ya gotta be more careful, what if that was one of those unaccompanied minors?