Mounting a motorised dish on a flat roof

[erukus]

Ok thanks again I have the 8M 14mm drill size bolts and will look into hiring an sds drill hopefully it wont cost too much money- can I just ask again if it would be okay to drop the height for ease of access? All this help is much appreciated

 

[satelliteman]

Fairly sure dropping the fixing point 18inches shouldn't cause to much of an issue as due South was close to 90° out from the wall. This should still give you a good range of the arc.

Safety comes first !

 

[erukus]

good advice

 

[sonnetpete]

Just to say all above good advice. Hiring a drill here in France is not quite the same, you may well get one to connect hydraulically to a French farmer friends tracteur!!

Best to follow the professionals advice on here re safe working height and practices.

Good luck.

Pete

 

[erukus]

All the hiring companies are closed it being the weekend but I did have a look at a local hardware store they had a number of drills- I asked the guy if he had SDS and he showed me the hammer drills as opposed to the impact drills - they ranged in price from 60 pounds to 100 pounds but none of them said SDS on the box just hammerdrill or rotary hammer drill

 

[shane77]

All the hiring companies are closed it being the weekend but I did have a look at a local hardware store they had a number of drills- I asked the guy if he had SDS and he showed me the hammer drills as opposed to the impact drills - they ranged in price from 60 pounds to 100 pounds but none of them said SDS on the box just hammerdrill or rotary hammer drill

£21.88 for the weekend, not cordless, which i'd prefer but still good

_http://www.hss.com/g/2361/Lightweight-Hammer-Driller-Sds.html

or cordless £30.63 for the weekend

_http://www.hss.com/g/2342/Cordless-Hammer-Drill.html

Whats the name of your local hire centre and I'll search their site for the right drill for you.

 

[rolfw]

You might want to consider hiring a scaffold tower, makes a high level dish installation really easy, particularly useful for your first motorised installation.

 

[satelliteman]

You might want to consider hiring a scaffold tower, makes a high level dish installation really easy, particularly useful for your first motorised installation.

Couldn't agree more, personal safety is paramount.

Fancy one of these myself > _http://www.monkeytower.co.uk/

 

[rolfw]

That's a nice unit, never seen one before, wonder how much they are?

 

[erukus]

I think hiring a scaffolding will be too exspensive I think with the right drill I wil be okay!

 

[shane77]

Even easier, get a Z10 no special licence required and a working height of 10.8m. Really easy to use and £99 for the day, used them before.

_http://www.smartplatforms.co.uk/Portals/0/smart/Hire_Rates.pdf

 

[compufunk]

I think hiring a scaffolding will be too exspensive I think with the right drill I wil be okay!

The Penta is bulky and not easy to handle at that height. If you can get your hands on anything that can improve your footing, take it!

Maybe you could get a friend up on another ladder to give you a hand. I lowered the dish from the roof to the mount for my own install, but I had to call in a second ladder and pair of hands when installing my dads Penta. That install was similar to yours .e.g I coulndt access it from the roof.

 

[rolfw]

A Penta 85 and motor isn't too bad, I always install them on my own without too much problem, the trick is to make sure that the top of the ladder is higher than the dish mount and it is waist high when you are working on it, then you are lowering the motor assembly into position.

 

[A nonymous]

Couldn't agree more, personal safety is paramount.

Fancy one of these myself > _http://www.monkeytower.co.uk/

Nah, what i have is easier

Absolute doddle to put up an 85cm penta up with one of these

_http://www.easi-dec.co.uk/products/tele-tower.php

Takes 5 mins to chuck together and fits nicely in the back of a transit :toke:

 

[satelliteman]

Yes like it Nano

 

[compufunk]

A Penta 85 and motor isn't too bad, I always install them on my own without too much problem, the trick is to make sure that the top of the ladder is higher than the dish mount and it is waist high when you are working on it, then you are lowering the into position.

There was my problem. I could only work from under it .

 

[erukus]

Thanks for all the suggestions - greatly appreciated - for financial reasons i.e. me being a student it is looking like these will be out of my price range I think I will have to drop the height for ease of access hoepfully those trees of to the east wont cause me too much trouble. I thought once I got the bracket up that would be the hard part over but it makes sense that putting up the dish may be a pain in the butt too - back to the drawing board

 

[Lazarus]

Well if you can get away with installing the Dish at reduced height, it makes post-Installation twiddling and Maintenance soooooo much easier

As regards the trees (says he, reading back through the Thread!), I have some massive trees in the field behind me that cause a heck of a lot less problems than you'd imagine from simple observation.

 

[rolfw]

Have made a sticky thread on access equipment. http://www.satellites.co.uk/satelli...ssion-access-equipment-dish-installation.html

 

[erukus]

Ok sorry to be annoying now but I just need clarification will this new position I have highlighted in green be ok I Have to drop the level for safety and due to the fact that I cant afford scaffolding or similar