After years of tree grief, those idiot stinking trees are GONE!! WOO HOO!!
There was one of those Chinese Tallow trees that was right smack dead in the way of everything from 121 ----> on.
I subscribe to Dish and I don’t have a clear LOS for the 61.5 satellite so I had to shoot for Ciel 2 at 129.
But even there there was a tree in the way. Only saving grace for me was that the tree was not all that healthy and the leaves were a little sparse.
When the wind would blow the tree would whip back and forth and cause me some annoying pixelation so recording wasn’t advisable.
This tree caused me extreme grief back when I struggled to bring in White Springs which I still miss.. :cry:
I never could get it reliably enough to enjoy it like I hoped for.
I’ve had grief with 123. I wanted to get FSTV but thanks to the tree, that wasn’t happening.
And of course 125 with PBS channels has been so troublesome that I had mostly given up on it too.
Fortunately for me, my neighbor who is a really nice guy was looking at the trees and after he and I discussed the many times they have dropped limbs on our power and utility wires over the years, he decided to have all the trees down the fence line cut all the way to the ground! YES!!
I was horrified though to come outside during the cutting down to discover that the tree guy had thrown a big rope over my power line and internet line to pull them out of the way, he tied the rope around my motorized dish !!
And that dish, of all the dishes he could have picked, was the worst choice! That dish gives me sooooooo much trouble because it’s loose in the ground from the drought. All it takes is just a tiny bit of movement and it’s out of commission.
I had been in the house mostly but I had walked out to check on things and saw what he did. So I said something to him about it and he said “It’s ok, I shook it pretty hard and it’s solid, it won’t go anywhere”..
Um, well, yes it did. It went off alignment. He really dorked it up and I can’t hit anything on it now. I guess I need to just go dig that pole out since it’s too short anyway and has some jerry-rigged adapter thing to make it taller.
My dog runs around with a LOG as her chew stick, a 25lb LOG and she whacks the LNB pretty hard as she runs past so I had to put a piece of lawn furniture in front of it so she’ll go around and not hit it.
So yeah, it’s time to do something about that but it still ticks me off the tree guy just jumped my fence and tied to that dish without even asking me first.
ANYWAY........ Never again will I have a tree problem! Now, if I could just get the stinkin pecan trees next door cut down that hang waaaaaaay over into my yard and block me from hitting everything between 72w and the horizon.
Since they hang over the fence into my yard I can cut them and the guy next door is cool with me having it done. I just have to come up with the $$ for it. Eh.. Not overly important. The rest of the sky is open and clear now so that is a HUGE improvement.
Now I need to get out there are realign them all and do a bunch of LNB swapping.
There was one of those Chinese Tallow trees that was right smack dead in the way of everything from 121 ----> on.
I subscribe to Dish and I don’t have a clear LOS for the 61.5 satellite so I had to shoot for Ciel 2 at 129.
But even there there was a tree in the way. Only saving grace for me was that the tree was not all that healthy and the leaves were a little sparse.
When the wind would blow the tree would whip back and forth and cause me some annoying pixelation so recording wasn’t advisable.
This tree caused me extreme grief back when I struggled to bring in White Springs which I still miss.. :cry:
I never could get it reliably enough to enjoy it like I hoped for.
I’ve had grief with 123. I wanted to get FSTV but thanks to the tree, that wasn’t happening.
And of course 125 with PBS channels has been so troublesome that I had mostly given up on it too.
Fortunately for me, my neighbor who is a really nice guy was looking at the trees and after he and I discussed the many times they have dropped limbs on our power and utility wires over the years, he decided to have all the trees down the fence line cut all the way to the ground! YES!!
I was horrified though to come outside during the cutting down to discover that the tree guy had thrown a big rope over my power line and internet line to pull them out of the way, he tied the rope around my motorized dish !!
And that dish, of all the dishes he could have picked, was the worst choice! That dish gives me sooooooo much trouble because it’s loose in the ground from the drought. All it takes is just a tiny bit of movement and it’s out of commission.
I had been in the house mostly but I had walked out to check on things and saw what he did. So I said something to him about it and he said “It’s ok, I shook it pretty hard and it’s solid, it won’t go anywhere”..
Um, well, yes it did. It went off alignment. He really dorked it up and I can’t hit anything on it now. I guess I need to just go dig that pole out since it’s too short anyway and has some jerry-rigged adapter thing to make it taller.
My dog runs around with a LOG as her chew stick, a 25lb LOG and she whacks the LNB pretty hard as she runs past so I had to put a piece of lawn furniture in front of it so she’ll go around and not hit it.
So yeah, it’s time to do something about that but it still ticks me off the tree guy just jumped my fence and tied to that dish without even asking me first.
ANYWAY........ Never again will I have a tree problem! Now, if I could just get the stinkin pecan trees next door cut down that hang waaaaaaay over into my yard and block me from hitting everything between 72w and the horizon.
Since they hang over the fence into my yard I can cut them and the guy next door is cool with me having it done. I just have to come up with the $$ for it. Eh.. Not overly important. The rest of the sky is open and clear now so that is a HUGE improvement.
Now I need to get out there are realign them all and do a bunch of LNB swapping.
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