Hello everyone,
Well things are starting to finally come together! It did seem that for a while it was like taking a step forward then a few steps back. Yesterday we put in both mounting support poles in. The 3” for the 10’ Unimesh and a 4” pole for a larger dish that I’m looking for. Whether that would be the 12” dish from down the street or another becomes known to me. We buried the 3” pole 5’ deep into a 20’ x 20’ inch hole. The 4” was buried nearly 8’ into the ground. The sand in the hole kept giving way collapsing all the dirt into the hole we were digging. We stopped at 7'6' approximately.
After finishing the work we stood back and took a look at the poles. As deep as I had buried them they were still high off the ground. They are nearly 10’ high or more. One of my friends who were helping me told me that he would come over on this coming weekend and torch some length off the poles. I was thinking at the same time that may be a bad idea as it would hinder the reception of the digital feed. I know it’s supposed to be level all the way around. I was also wondering how I was going to put on the dishes. I remembered the guy that owned the now out of business satellite store and how he used what is called a “Dish Crane”. I tried finding that on the Internet. I did find a site on installing a dish that I thought was interesting. Satellite Dish Install On the page it showed in one of the images a photograph of a tool used to cut pipes. See photo: “sat300”, to look at tool.
I looked all over the place to find such a tool. I was also looking for a dish crane too. No such luck. I stopped by the small dish operator and left a message for him to call me. He’s coming tomorrow to look at the poles and said he could cut them off and put a cap on them. What do you think? Save them the current high size? Or cut them down to a high but not so short size? I want to be able to mow around the area of the dishes. Keep in mind one is a 10’and the other one whether it’s from down the street or from Skyvision will be 12’ footer.
I’m enclosing some photos of the poles. It will be like my Journal of putting up my Satellite Dishes. Starting with poles first. Also I’m putting in some satellite photos of my house. The X X behind the house is the satellite dishes location. With a shot of a clearing of the trees for the signal to go through it. There is a nice spot between the trees in the south 213 degree direction.
I also got a call tonight from the guy who gave me the dish and he told me I could use the Dish crane this weekend. I’m going to take a good look at it, take some picture of it and put them here. It’s an amazing tool!
Thanks everyone.
Tom
Well things are starting to finally come together! It did seem that for a while it was like taking a step forward then a few steps back. Yesterday we put in both mounting support poles in. The 3” for the 10’ Unimesh and a 4” pole for a larger dish that I’m looking for. Whether that would be the 12” dish from down the street or another becomes known to me. We buried the 3” pole 5’ deep into a 20’ x 20’ inch hole. The 4” was buried nearly 8’ into the ground. The sand in the hole kept giving way collapsing all the dirt into the hole we were digging. We stopped at 7'6' approximately.
After finishing the work we stood back and took a look at the poles. As deep as I had buried them they were still high off the ground. They are nearly 10’ high or more. One of my friends who were helping me told me that he would come over on this coming weekend and torch some length off the poles. I was thinking at the same time that may be a bad idea as it would hinder the reception of the digital feed. I know it’s supposed to be level all the way around. I was also wondering how I was going to put on the dishes. I remembered the guy that owned the now out of business satellite store and how he used what is called a “Dish Crane”. I tried finding that on the Internet. I did find a site on installing a dish that I thought was interesting. Satellite Dish Install On the page it showed in one of the images a photograph of a tool used to cut pipes. See photo: “sat300”, to look at tool.
I looked all over the place to find such a tool. I was also looking for a dish crane too. No such luck. I stopped by the small dish operator and left a message for him to call me. He’s coming tomorrow to look at the poles and said he could cut them off and put a cap on them. What do you think? Save them the current high size? Or cut them down to a high but not so short size? I want to be able to mow around the area of the dishes. Keep in mind one is a 10’and the other one whether it’s from down the street or from Skyvision will be 12’ footer.
I’m enclosing some photos of the poles. It will be like my Journal of putting up my Satellite Dishes. Starting with poles first. Also I’m putting in some satellite photos of my house. The X X behind the house is the satellite dishes location. With a shot of a clearing of the trees for the signal to go through it. There is a nice spot between the trees in the south 213 degree direction.
I also got a call tonight from the guy who gave me the dish and he told me I could use the Dish crane this weekend. I’m going to take a good look at it, take some picture of it and put them here. It’s an amazing tool!
Thanks everyone.
Tom
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