I'm an idiot

timo_w2s

timo_w2s

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My Satellite Setup
Vu+ Duo 4K SE
Dr.HD F15
My Location
Maidenhead, UK & Helsinki, Finland
I was working in the garden this afternoon while enjoying the sun and propping up a load of long cherry tree trunks temporarily by my old flimsy 90cm dish (5E/9E/13E) mounted on the shed shed when they started to slip down the wall and crashed onto the LNB arm and knocked the dish, which is now pointing a little too far down. I'm hoping the LNB arm didn't get bent out of shape because it really took the majority of the weight. From a quick glance it looks alright... Luckily they didn't hit the multi LNB bracket or the main LNB holder which has already been cracked when the neighbours put up a new fence. Pretty silly of me really, I should have put the logs somewhere else. Cherry wood is surprisingly heavy too, as my dish found out today.

Oh well, something to sort out later this week while the weather is nice. At least they are not satellites I watch regularly.
 
I only came here because of the title.
 
Myth: George Washington once chopped down his father’s favorite cherry tree.


First published by the biographer Parson Weems in 1809, ten years after Washington’s death, the story reportedly came from an old neighbor who’d known Washington as a boy. However, it is the only historical source of the story, and as a legitimate source, it isn’t very credible.......


Given that Weems is known to have copied and adapted several of his “George Washington” stories in that “biography” from English folklore, to illustrate various traits George Washington supposedly exhibited in spades when he was an adult, and that Weems provides no firm evidence to back this particular tale, historians today consider the cherry tree story complete fiction.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/george-washington-never-chopped-down-a-cherry-tree/
 
Hope that cherry tree is all right. The wood is good for carving.
 
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