Here's a picture of the end result of my biggest weekend project I've tried so far. I had a buddy make me a 30' dish pole out of well-casing. I then attached the 10' unimesh dish to it. Had another buddy, who's dad owned a semi-sized wrecker to 'hoist' the thing in the air (at least to the point where two guys on the roof could grab hold of it and pull 'er against the side of the garage.
I then took two pieces of flat iron that I secured to the pole, ran lag-bolts through the outside wall of the garage and using very large wing nuts, seucured the bolts to the inside wall of the garage again using two pieces of flat iron.
Believe it or not, I had preset the elevation (I had installed other BUD's before) and 'eye-balled' the north/south axis so when it came time to peak the dish it only took a few minutes.
Advantage: no one would dare try and steal the dish.
Disadvantage: hard to remove snow (had to use roof rake poles)
p.s. I did this in 1991
I then took two pieces of flat iron that I secured to the pole, ran lag-bolts through the outside wall of the garage and using very large wing nuts, seucured the bolts to the inside wall of the garage again using two pieces of flat iron.
Believe it or not, I had preset the elevation (I had installed other BUD's before) and 'eye-balled' the north/south axis so when it came time to peak the dish it only took a few minutes.
Advantage: no one would dare try and steal the dish.
Disadvantage: hard to remove snow (had to use roof rake poles)
p.s. I did this in 1991