Funniest pole mount

[rahlquist]

Ok I understand some locations provide a challenge but today I saw one that made my want to laugh my butt off. So on our way back by it I snapped a picture. I trimmed it down to protect the innocent LOL.

[dennisj00]

Help me out here. . . and no offense, but I looked at this picture several times and I don't see anything funny. Just a short pole mount. . . possibly just beyond the trees in their yard?

[netraa]

As out of plumb as that mast is, dithering the dish properly is not going to happen. your going to be spitting into the wind the entire time. every time you work up the elevation, your azimuth changes, and the same when you try and dither your azimuth, your elevation changes.

nice one.

[dennisj00]

I originally though it might be out of plumb but you can't really tell -- comparing to the fence post ??

[veryoldschool]

It might take me a few min longer, but it isn't so far out of plumb that I couldn't "nail" all the SATs. Adjust tilt, Az, El to compensate.. done.
I need a taller pole as the deer would be giving me way too many 771 errors with one that short.

[Brandon428]

LOL I wonder how many times he gets flood fade?

[BattleZone]

It might look funny, but obviously it was done very intentionally (the install itself looks to be first-rate). Most likely, there was a Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF) involved.

[veryoldschool]

It might look funny, but obviously it was done very intentionally (the install itself looks to be first-rate). Most likely, there was a Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF) involved.
the Daisies are coming next to hide "the ugly thing". :lol:

[rahlquist]

Help me out here. . . and no offense, but I looked at this picture several times and I don't see anything funny. Just a short pole mount. . . possibly just beyond the trees in their yard?
A gremlin gets the job done as basic transportation but it sure looks funny, least to me. I've heard of wall warts, but that's my first lawn wart.

[roadrunner1782]

rahlquist, if it makes you feel any better it made me laugh! I wonder if whoever installed it actually buried 4 or 5 feet of the pole or if they cut it down first. I personally don't think I could have that in my yard as I would probably run it over with the lawn mower!!!!

[armophob]

the Daisies are coming next to hide "the ugly thing". :lol:

I would have added petals to it so it would blend in.

[Johnnie5000]

I've actually had to do an install like that before to get the signal under a tree canopy. Felt weird as hell doing it. Kept tripping over the dish when I'd try and walk by it to run the cables or whatever. Had to put my knee pads on to line up the dish... I still laugh everytime I drive by it.

That wasn't on Signal Mountain was it?

[David MacLeod]

I have dandelions that grow taller than that here :)
771 due to lions :) :)

[usnret]

Did you see a groundhog hole anywhere near it??

[AntAltMike]

The funniest pole mount I ever saw was a 16-foot Hero dish mounted on top of a 21', 6" I.D. schedule 120 pole. This was on the rooftop of a three-story warehouse, and the mast was attached to the brick wall at the top of the staircase, with the two arrachment points probably being about one-foot and maybe seven-feet from the bottom of the pole.

I don't know the weight of the 16-foot Hero dish, but is is surely over a ton. In even a moderate wind, this dish would sway like a giant sunflower, taking it completely off the targeted satellite. There was no need for this mast to have been any more than ten feet tall, as there were no obstructions to the lowest satellites in the arc in either direction.

When I had to service the LNB, I had to put an extension ladder along the side of the eight foot wall it was attached to, and extend it to about ten to twelve feet above that roofline. Then I would take an eight-foot step ladder up to that rooftop and tie it to the underside of the extension ladder to make it strong enough to support me as I climbed my makeshift "stairway to heaven" to get to the LNB, which I could reach when the dish was lowered to horizontal.

I wound up dropping this customer, who had inherited the dish when he bought the business that owned it, but some time later, he hired another company to try to restore it to service. The HTS dish mover only had a one-amp circuit breaker in it, but this dish's actuator sometimes drew more than that and would trip it, so apparently this, "technician" bypassed it and drove the actuator directly off his own 12 volt DC power source and managed to snap the chain drive, leaving the dish hanging unsecured, targeted about ten degrees below horizontal and unsecured.

I had someone apprise the owner of the safety hazard this presented, but my warning was ignored. Then one day, there were some strong winds, probably in excess of 40 miles an hour, and the dish flipped over in its pivot, snapped off and came crashing down to the parkinglot below, which fortunately was vacant since it happened in the early hours of the morning.

[rocket69]

looks ok but probly not plum. my gess was tech was trying to unload a $750 dish cave he got stuck with.http://www.skyvision.com/store/media/1500206.jpg http://www.vrcomposites.com/images/butte.med.res.jpg.jpg

[roadrunner1782]

Hmm, I wonder how that big rock would look on my roof.:D

[fl panthers]

I would have added petals to it so it would blend in.

that's kind of like when they add 3 little branches to a cell tower and expect it to blend in w/ trees!they will never see it now!!:lol:

[dodge boy]

I thought he was talking about that dancer at the bar lastnight.... :lol:

[Whodo]

Being a Rv'er and taking Directv along with us on the road we see many different dish installation setups, just never thought of taking pictures of them.

Here is a couple pictures of our Directv dish setup that we use with the Motor Home while traveling around the country.

This picture is the dish set up ready to use... Yes it's upside down, but the wind doesn't blow it over... so far it has withstood 60+ MPH wind gust with out moving.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/Browzin/100_3368.jpg

This is the dish and stand ready to go into the storage compartment for travel

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/Browzin/100_3370.jpg

[JACKIEGAGA]

I have dandelions that grow taller than that here :)
771 due to lions :) :)

And I have tulips taller than that dish

[jpitlick]

I saw a dish attached to a tree the other day. I thought that looked pretty funny.

[cartrivision]

I'm not laughing. There is no reason to put a dish any higher than would be needed to get above any line of sight obstructions. If nobody is ever expected to be walking on that hillside in front of that dish, mounting it closer to the ground makes it less of an eyesore.

What I laugh at is people who mount dishes at the topmost peak of a two story house, instead of on the eave at the lowest edge of the roof where they still have perfect line of sight to the satellites.

[Nick]

Mounting a dish on the highest peak of a two-three story house
puts it closer to the satellite, which gives....oh, never mind! :p

[armophob]

I still remember a post where the guy mounted it on a scaffold like contraption hanging 12'-20' out from his deck. I wish I could remember where to find that post. It was an amazing pic.

[TigersFanJJ]

Mounting a dish on the highest peak of a two-three story house
puts it closer to the satellite, which gives....oh, never mind! :p

When I was an installer, I lost count of how many times I heard, "Wouldn't it get a better signal mounted on the peak of the roof instead of on that pole in the ground?" :lol:

[tigerwillow1]

My slimline is in the middle of a flower bed, with the bottom edge 12" above the ground. I had signal loss about a dozen times this last winter because of snow on the dish. It was very easy to clear off.

[ABQNM]

The frost line must be really deep if a 5.5 foot pole is 4 feet in the ground. lol

[ChrisPC]

Just wait until they have to cut the grass, and get too close with the mower!

[Mertzen]

"do what you have to do to get the job done" :lol: