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What have you been doing today?

fillyboy said:
Just having a strong coffee before going up on the roof to fit a solar panel, single handed. :oops:
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When we moved into our current house in 1990, I brought our old satellite dish and decided to fit and tune it in myself. I climbed up on our roof, took an extension lead, the satellite dish and bracket, the tuner and a TV set! I bolted it up to the chimney stack, connected it up then messed about with the dish until I got a good signal. Job done. Nowadays, I don’t think I’d get above the gutters before I’d lose my bottle.
 
Mottie said:
When we moved into our current house in 1990, I brought our old satellite dish and decided to fit and tune it in myself. I climbed up on our roof, took an extension lead, the satellite dish and bracket, the tuner and a TV set! I bolted it up to the chimney stack, connected it up then messed about with the dish until I got a good signal. Job done. Nowadays, I don’t think I’d get above the gutters before I’d lose my bottle.
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Ten years ago I'd think nothing of getting up on a roof, but with each passing year it's got harder and harder, not just the physical aspect, you do lose your bottle as you get older. It sends a shiver down my spine thinking of some of the things I used to do.
Going for it today though, big time.
If I don't update you later, you'll know it ended badly.
 
fillyboy said:
Ten years ago I'd think nothing of getting up on a roof, but with each passing year it's got harder and harder, not just the physical aspect, you do lose your bottle as you get older. It sends a shiver down my spine thinking of some of the things I used to do.
Going for it today though, big time.
If I don't update you later, you'll know it ended badly.
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Just remember, your name is not Rod Hull...
 
securespark said:
Just remember, your name is not Rod Hull...
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Gyles Brandreth still feels kinda responsible for that - While at a theater performance with him, Hull was complaining about his TV signal. Brandreth told him to "get a ladder and climb on the roof" to fix it himself....it's a pity emu's are flightless.
 
Mottie said:
I brought our old satellite dish and decided to fit and tune it in myself. I climbed up on our roof, took an extension lead, the satellite dish and bracket, the tuner and a TV set!
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Absolutely no reason at all, to mount a sat dish up high, they work equally well at ground level - providing they have a view of the correct bit of sky. You should try setting up a big steerable dish. In the early days of sat, I decided to buy a 1m steerable dish. I mounted that on a scaff pole, at the back of the garage. That system, was wrecked by a near lightning strike.
 
securespark said:
Just remember, your name is not Rod Hull...
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I have a 'Rod Hull' to try to do, swapping the yellow sodium light fitting, high up on the end wall, lighting the drive, for a more modern white, mush more compact fitting. I've been waiting, planning, and organising the swap, all week - just waiting for some suitable weather to get the ladders out. Today is sunny, dry, but rather cold.
 
aveatry said:
Well why dont you put your coffee down and use two hands
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