Observing an aerial fitter......

Stephen wrote:
My apologies Bill...

Well its an interesting juxtaposition between

(a) ensuring one's posterior is covered litigiously speaking,
Important these days if you're a proper well-established trader.

(b) doing one's greeny bit for the environment doing the 3 R's, reduce,
re-use and recycle,
No aerial installer, or indeed no-one in business, really cares about
that. The reason is that the gulf between official and personal morality
is at an all-time high. It's just a case of filling in the right forms
with the right answers, making the right noises, and then just keeping
calm and carrying on, as normal.


(c) maximising the aerial riggers profit margin as he/she can charge a
profit margin for materials/parts/components, as people seem to prefer
invoices/bills tilted towards the value of the parts rather than the
labour....
Well they do, but on the other hand yer average granny just wants the
job doing, and her awareness of and concern about the finer points of
the installation is minimal. That's why those of us who trade with
honour have to explain things fully, even though the customer might
still not fully comprehend.


:-)

FWIW, where I saw a failed aerial installation, its still attached either by
the co-ax cable or the pole has bent double or one of the guy wires has
broken.
It's unusual these days for the thing to end up in the garden, still
rarer in the greenhouse, but it does happen.

I've never yet heard of an aerial falling from the roof to kill the
customer's mother-in-law, waiting to be let in to commence a six month
visit, which proves that all the laws of nature are against us.


I've never actually seen an aerial install *actually* come down to the
ground unless the chimney stack came down as well.....
Once in my long life of staring at the roofs I saw an aerial fall. It
was quite slow and undramatic.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message ...
Stephen wrote:
My apologies Bill...

Well its an interesting juxtaposition between

(a) ensuring one's posterior is covered litigiously speaking,
Important these days if you're a proper well-established trader.

(b) doing one's greeny bit for the environment doing the 3 R's, reduce, re-use and recycle,
No aerial installer, or indeed no-one in business, really cares about that. The reason is that the gulf between official and
personal morality is at an all-time high. It's just a case of filling in the right forms with the right answers, making the right
noises, and then just keeping calm and carrying on, as normal.


(c) maximising the aerial riggers profit margin as he/she can charge a profit margin for materials/parts/components, as people
seem to prefer invoices/bills tilted towards the value of the parts rather than the labour....
Well they do, but on the other hand yer average granny just wants the job doing, and her awareness of and concern about the finer
points of the installation is minimal. That's why those of us who trade with honour have to explain things fully, even though the
customer might still not fully comprehend.


:-)

FWIW, where I saw a failed aerial installation, its still attached either by the co-ax cable or the pole has bent double or one
of the guy wires has broken.
It's unusual these days for the thing to end up in the garden, still rarer in the greenhouse, but it does happen.

I've never yet heard of an aerial falling from the roof to kill the customer's mother-in-law, waiting to be let in to commence a
six month visit, which proves that all the laws of nature are against us.


I've never actually seen an aerial install *actually* come down to the ground unless the chimney stack came down as well.....
Once in my long life of staring at the roofs I saw an aerial fall. It was quite slow and undramatic.

Bill

Would it have still fallen if you hadn't been looking?

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Graham.

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On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:55:05 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:


Once in my long life of staring at the roofs I saw an aerial fall. It
was quite slow and undramatic.

When I worked for the fire service, I retired early over 10 years ago,
gale force winds were ususually followed by phone calls about
so-called dangerous aerials. It was usually suspected that the aerial
had been dislodged for some time before the gales but the occupier
thought that he had an opportunity to get it fixed for free. Our rule
was that we would only deal with them if there was a danger to the
public, so those on properties with gardens were refused. Then we
explained that all we would do would be to cut the cable or whatever
was holding the aerial to the roof, leaving the occupier with no TV
until they'd got a rigger in, which they might as well do in the first
place. We turned out to a few but it wasn't the cheap deal the callers
thought they were getting.

Graham. wrote:

I've never actually seen an aerial install *actually* come down to the ground unless the chimney stack came down as well.....
Once in my long life of staring at the roofs I saw an aerial fall. It was quite slow and undramatic.

Bill

Would it have still fallen if you hadn't been looking?

Only if someone was watching telly via it at the same time.

Bill