Really strong wind gusts here tonight! Heard a loud bang outside a little while ago and when we checked our security cameras, the wind had ripped one of my Slimline dishes and the 4x4 it was bolted to off of the folding ladder that I use for a temporary mount to try out new dishes on and sent the dish sailing across the yard into my truck, about twenty or thirty feet away.
Went out and looked, it'd snapped the 4 lag bolts holding the 4x4 to the ladder and snapped the small secondary support arm for the dish, knocked the LNB right out of the end of the LNB arm, crazy. I'm glad it was one of the Slimlines though and not one of the other dishes. I wouldn't have thought that dish would've gone anywhere, but it is out [was, rather] in the open, where as the other dishes are blocked from the wind coming up behind them by the house.
Went out and looked, it'd snapped the 4 lag bolts holding the 4x4 to the ladder and snapped the small secondary support arm for the dish, knocked the LNB right out of the end of the LNB arm, crazy. I'm glad it was one of the Slimlines though and not one of the other dishes. I wouldn't have thought that dish would've gone anywhere, but it is out [was, rather] in the open, where as the other dishes are blocked from the wind coming up behind them by the house.