Posted by kryppy on 02/05/97 11:28

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:14:31 -0500, Jim <wdxp@cox.net> wrote:

>Katrina knocked my 10' feedhorn assembly into neighbors yard and
>ripped the bolts out of the concrete when a huge oak branch hit the
>dish. The dish hung there from a sturdy homemade eave bracket. Well,
>this is hard to believe, but when Rita later came along, the dish
>ended upright, the 4 bolts back in the same holes, but rotated 90
>degrees, leaning upright against the eave bracket.
>I just had to repair the eave bracket and rebolt the pole to the
>bracket. Am awaiting a new feedhorn/cover assembly. I made
>the eave bracket out of perforated angle iron from Home Depot, and
>since the dish pole (14 feet long) was trapped inside the triangle of
>the bracket, it did not fall, just ripped mounting bolts free of
>concrete anchors and eave bracket, hanging there.. I had not figured
>out how to get the thing back into the concrete, and then along came
>RITA which did the job for me.
>Amazing, one for Ripley.

LOL, I wish Rita would have hooked me up!

My mount was just a couple of pieces of 3/16 thick 4" angle iron from
a commercial non pen mount I butted together and welded. I set the 3
1/2 " center pipe in that and welded it on.
I guess the weak link was the red heads I used, apparently I was out
of 1/2" so I used 1/4". :)
Funny thing, it was fine for the three bigger storms last year. I used
it for KU the entire time in 90MPH+ wind.
It fell perfectly on its face, all I had to do was straighten the
legs.
I think I will try tapcons this time around. Hahaha

>
>
>On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:21:31 -0400, kryppy <kryppy@.> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:47:15 -0400, "Ad Hoc Guy"
>><PussyFart@hic-ups.org> wrote:
>>
>>>I would definitely go with Pansat and you can check out this site if your
>>>not sure They are highly
>>>recommended.http://www.kusat.com/go.php?path=/intro.php
>>>BTW Kryppy..How the hell are YOU ? When is your next " Rip the shit out of
>>>my dish installation" storm ? Hope your ok and didn't suffer to much damage
>>>on the last one.
>>>Every time I hear one is headed for FLA I think of you.
>>>Be safe and keep on FTA'ing
>>
>>
>>All my trees fell down last season. :)
>>Katrina knocked down my 10' dish. I'm good now. LOL

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