Mounting dish on cement blocks

[tvdxer]

A simple question:

How do you mount a motorized dish on cement blocks?

I've seen dishes mounted on cement blocks several times. However, I don't know if they're motorized or not. The ground here is frozen already (but without snow), being in the arctic wasteland that is northern Minnesota in late November. I know there must be a way to do a on-ground mounting - after all, they have dishes in northern Alaska and Nunavut . If anybody could help me, please do. I'd really appreciate it.

 

[PSB]

I have my 6' dish on a Flat Roof Mount with some brick blocks to hold it down, otherwise you could do the same and use a masonry bit to drill into the blocks and bolt down the dish using the correct fasteners. I would try to find a flat roof mount or try the above, a wooden pallet with brick blocks would also work!

 

[dishMIKE]

I used a plastic pallet I got free from work with some left over patio blocks I had. It has worked nicely with my Superdish mast and Primestar dish set up for G10. Mike

 

[havenx]

A friend of mine has his DPC and Direct TV dish mounted on a wooden pallet with some block on it.... He just leveled up the dishes and all was good.

 

[Tron]

My two 36" square non-pen roof mounts stayed put DURING KATRINA (minus the dish reflectors, of course, which I removed before the storm) with four 4 x 8 x 16 cinder blocks on each mount placed at the corners. Neither mount moved an inch, and the winds were 140 mph here.