Dish on chimney

Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the side of
a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would the pole need
to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg

"Steve Niven" wrote in message
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Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on
the side of
a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would the
pole need
to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg



Bill will be along shortly to give you thje definitive answer,
but I don't see any problems provided the chimney is in good
condition. I would however have put it much lower down close to
the roof line to reduce the wind loading, and possibly have put
the bracket on the corner to the left so that the is no issue
with fouling anything during alignment.



--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

"Steve Niven" wrote in message ...

Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the side of
a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would the pole need
to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg


****

Pointing between bricks looks as if needing attention.
Regards
David

Steve Niven wrote:
Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the side of
a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would the pole need
to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg

Looks like he tried to do a good job but didn't think it through. He's
used the wrong corner, and he should have mounted it right at the bottom
of the chimney (assuming no signal obstructions at that location).

At a guess I'd say the mortar is rather soft, and it's only a 2 brick by
2 chimney, so to be really safe I think I would have used two lashing
kits with the dish in between them. The thing about single lashing wires
is that they have to be really tight and the bricks can move if the
mortar is soft. A double lash wire can be relatively slack.

The chimney appears to be capped so there shouldn't be corrosion issues,
particularly.

Oddly, the cable on the stack looks like shotgun, and the fixing clip
looks old.

Bill

On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:24:31 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Steve Niven wrote:
Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the
side of a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would
the pole need to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg

Looks like he tried to do a good job but didn't think it through.
He's used the wrong corner,

As someone who has never even used a satellite dish, let alone
mounted one, which is the correct corner, and why?
--
Davey.

Davey wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:24:31 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Steve Niven wrote:
Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the
side of a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would
the pole need to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg
Looks like he tried to do a good job but didn't think it through.
He's used the wrong corner,

As someone who has never even used a satellite dish, let alone
mounted one, which is the correct corner, and why?
Well, if you can it's nice to get the dish with its back to the chimney,
not sticking out at the side like Prince Charles' left
lug 'ole. Dishes that don't have masonry behind them catch the wind and
get swung round, and they also cut the skyline and look crap.

People sometimes opt to put the dish on the side wall of a south-facing
house, so it sticks out and looks awful. It would be much better on the
front.

Bill

On 12/05/2013 15:54, Steve Niven wrote:
Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the side of
a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would the pole need
to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg

Don't know if it's just an optical illusion, but the bracket looks
neither flat nor corner fixing to me.

--

Jeff

On Mon, 13 May 2013 08:29:54 +0100
Jeff Layman wrote:

On 12/05/2013 15:54, Steve Niven wrote:
Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the
side of a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would
the pole need to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg

Don't know if it's just an optical illusion, but the bracket looks
neither flat nor corner fixing to me.


It looks to me like a flat one used on a corner, and therefore a little
unstable.
--
Davey.

On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:35:55 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Davey wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:24:31 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Steve Niven wrote:
Does this image illustrate an adequate way to mount a dish on the
side of a chimney? With a single large lashed bracket? Or would
the pole need to be stiffened with two lashing kits?

http://i.imgur.com/SFJtxZH.jpg
Looks like he tried to do a good job but didn't think it through.
He's used the wrong corner,

As someone who has never even used a satellite dish, let alone
mounted one, which is the correct corner, and why?
Well, if you can it's nice to get the dish with its back to the
chimney, not sticking out at the side like Prince Charles' left
lug 'ole. Dishes that don't have masonry behind them catch the wind
and get swung round, and they also cut the skyline and look crap.

People sometimes opt to put the dish on the side wall of a
south-facing house, so it sticks out and looks awful. It would be
much better on the front.

Bill

Thanks.
--
Davey.

On 13/05/2013 10:28, Davey wrote:
It looks to me like a flat one used on a corner, and therefore a little
unstable.

Not to me. There's a big U on this side of the chimney which goes out to
the pole; a smaller one welded at right angles and going away from the
camera on the left side. Look at the way the wires and bolts enter the
frame.

Andy