bad wind lol

[martin-f]

is anyone else getting bad wind in your area i am scared of my dish blowing of the wall
funny comments acepted i have asked for it

[reddiesel]

If you tie a ball of string to it, if it blows off the wall you can follow the string to locate it, its very annoying to loose your dish.
Notice i didnt mention baked beans once !

[reddiesel]

I tied a pair of my wifes knickers to my dish and it works like an raf windsock you can see if it gets too windy, if so i bring it indoors and balance it on a few tyres on top of the tv set, you can use extra tyres for added height.

[wasp11]

Buy a cctv camera, focus it on the dish in windy conditions to keep your eye on it. Keep it upwind of the dish, in case the dish blows off and hits the camera. But if the wind changes direction????. Answer get a motorised camera [wind operated], you'll get one in any good poundstretcher store

[martin-f]

i just use the cheap way wasp sit and watch tv if signal goes off dish as blown of the wall
no my dish is very secure the house would have to blow down
in my area they must have been 60/70mph winds at times for the last couple of days and nothing on the news that i have seen
i was just wondering if other areas has been getting them
martin

[madtrev5]

i would lend ya some of my wifes knickers but i think string would be a lot thicker than they are lmfao and what if the camera blows away before the dish does wasp lol

if it does blow of the wall i have a big drill to put it back on with if ya need it anyway sod the wind it cold

[Analoguesat]

Any well mounted dish shouldnt blow down in anything short of extreme storm conditions. If you have one of those horrible cheap L-bend mounts take it down, throw it away and get some T&K mounts and a short length of scaffold tube. Bolt the T&K's to the wall using "expanding rawlbolt anchorss" and the dish might move a bit in a gale but it wont come down.

Even my shoddily mounted dishes (the mounts are screwed onto fenceposts!) have never failed although they have all needed realigning more than once after gales.

[madtrev5]

no u just have a big hole if u used that lot to anchor your dish the dish wopuld still be up but the rest of your house would be missing

[wod]

well my channel master dish is holding up very well with that 3inch pole and is solid on a pair of 24inch t&k brackets

[rolfd]

Originally Posted by wod

well my channel master dish is holding up very well with that 3inch pole and is solid on a pair of 24inch t&k brackets

A solid 3 inch pole, something my ex wife used to tell me she thought about a lot