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Big Dish blown over in storms - Canaries
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<blockquote data-quote="DishDick" data-source="post: 674183" data-attributes="member: 216974"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Hi,</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">thought I would let you know my beloved big dish was blown over in the storms here at </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">4am</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> on 18th.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The dish had survived hurricane in 2005 but not this beast. I was sitting at home worried about the dish as the way the wind was blowing (face on) I was the most exposed big dish on the island (high on the mountain, no objects in way to break the wind and dish on roof) so I decided to not just sit and worry but to take action and take dish down. </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">9:30 pm</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> me and two friends started, unfortunately some screws rusted. Took 1.5 hours to get arm and bottom section of dish off and store safely. Decided too unsafe to remove top section so left hoping half a dish in 1m x 1m x </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">30 cm</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> base would be ok. Was awake worrying all night then </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">4am</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> bang. Down it came. Whole base ripped up Lucky dish stayed on roof, dish undamaged and minor damage to house. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Looking at getting a new stand with a much bigger base and cementing that into a 2m x 2m x 40cm base and using metal ties to fix top bracket to bottom bracket. Going to be busy breaking up old base and carrying up ballast for new base. Still I am not the only one others blew over, though I was a little bit gutted that other peoples dishes which are just bolted on (pillocks) are still there - obviously they were lucky not to be in the direct path on the storm like me.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DishDick, post: 674183, member: 216974"] [FONT=Tahoma]Hi,[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]thought I would let you know my beloved big dish was blown over in the storms here at [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]4am[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma] on 18th.[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]The dish had survived hurricane in 2005 but not this beast. I was sitting at home worried about the dish as the way the wind was blowing (face on) I was the most exposed big dish on the island (high on the mountain, no objects in way to break the wind and dish on roof) so I decided to not just sit and worry but to take action and take dish down. [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]9:30 pm[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma] me and two friends started, unfortunately some screws rusted. Took 1.5 hours to get arm and bottom section of dish off and store safely. Decided too unsafe to remove top section so left hoping half a dish in 1m x 1m x [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]30 cm[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma] base would be ok. Was awake worrying all night then [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]4am[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma] bang. Down it came. Whole base ripped up Lucky dish stayed on roof, dish undamaged and minor damage to house. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Looking at getting a new stand with a much bigger base and cementing that into a 2m x 2m x 40cm base and using metal ties to fix top bracket to bottom bracket. Going to be busy breaking up old base and carrying up ballast for new base. Still I am not the only one others blew over, though I was a little bit gutted that other peoples dishes which are just bolted on (pillocks) are still there - obviously they were lucky not to be in the direct path on the storm like me.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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