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<blockquote data-quote="John" data-source="post: 947946" data-attributes="member: 175005"><p>... You don't want to know Martin, it'll make you weep&nbsp; lol.&nbsp; &nbsp; Also trashed a heavy duty &quot;Jumbo&quot; positioner.&nbsp; The gales that day were absolutely mental and to be honest i shi.. / poo'd me pants.&nbsp;&nbsp; I only live a knats away from you near Mansfield so i bet you can remember it,&nbsp; something like a year ago ?.&nbsp; The dish was facing the way you can see it in my profile pic but was lowered down on like a see-saw mount arrangement and the Cband lnb was touching the ground.&nbsp; It was even roped down from the dish arms back to the bottom of the ground mount for extra security i thought -- WRONG.&nbsp; The gusts were that strong that it snapped the rope &amp; lifted the whole lot back up to vertical at high speed where it came to a violent abrupt stop in the vertical position.&nbsp; The impact was enough to shatter the internals of the Jumbo positioner, bend the top pole section&nbsp; and warp / knacker the 2.2 Precision.&nbsp; A BAD day Martin, still getting withdrawal symptoms lol dear me. <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sad.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="John, post: 947946, member: 175005"] ... You don't want to know Martin, it'll make you weep lol. Also trashed a heavy duty "Jumbo" positioner. The gales that day were absolutely mental and to be honest i shi.. / poo'd me pants. I only live a knats away from you near Mansfield so i bet you can remember it, something like a year ago ?. The dish was facing the way you can see it in my profile pic but was lowered down on like a see-saw mount arrangement and the Cband lnb was touching the ground. It was even roped down from the dish arms back to the bottom of the ground mount for extra security i thought -- WRONG. The gusts were that strong that it snapped the rope & lifted the whole lot back up to vertical at high speed where it came to a violent abrupt stop in the vertical position. The impact was enough to shatter the internals of the Jumbo positioner, bend the top pole section and warp / knacker the 2.2 Precision. A BAD day Martin, still getting withdrawal symptoms lol dear me. :( [/QUOTE]

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