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Allan in NE

03-21-2005 15:23:30

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Hi Guys,

Wet, heavy snow here today.

Since it has been pretty well established in certain circles that I don't have the mental prowess to do anything else within this organization, it is my responsibility to keep the darned wet snow off the uplinks, which simply cannot "be down" for any reason.

However, benefits of the job include my nosing around on the YT site from time to time and reading about old tractors. :>)

Rumor has it that I may also be promoted (if I qualify) to cleaning the toilets too. It's just one long, horrid grind around here. :>(

Allan

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BobMo

03-22-2005 06:23:00

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Well, they know you better than we do, so based on your post I'll have to defer to their judgement..... ....

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Hermit

03-21-2005 19:09:18

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Here in the snowbelt, it's been my experience that the loss-of-signal problem doesn't come from snow on the dish but snow on the LNB. I've seen freezing rain or wet snow slightly covering the front of the LNB causing the signal to go out. I made a small plastic cover to keep weather off the front cover and solved that problem. However, signal loss due to heavy rain or snow can't be fixed except to wait for the storm to pass.

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Galen

03-22-2005 05:07:20

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Hermit, 03-21-2005 19:09:18

Not complainin', but that's more snow than we've seen all year(SE Nebraska)! Had a small one (1 1/2") in January. December gave us about 8" total. Got a spit or two of rain last night (21 March). Some guys have all the luck - I ain't got no satelite TV niether, just the old fashioned air stations.

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Willy-N

03-21-2005 18:57:00

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Re: O/T Heat Tapes in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Allen put some heat tapes on the back of the dishes. You can use silicon calk to hold them in place then just plug them in once in a while or use a timer during the winter. Mark H.

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Dug

03-21-2005 18:47:56

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Allan,

I can tell you from first hand experience about that "promotion" (I was promoted last year) cleaning toilets is way overrated. Definitely a job that should be outsourced.

Dug

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Allan in NE

03-21-2005 18:55:28

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Dug, 03-21-2005 18:47:56

Hi Dug,

Yep, it was outsourced all right. To me. :>)

Allan

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old blue

03-21-2005 18:43:39

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

anyone ever try taking one of these and making a pan style sled? my cousin has two and im wondering how good it woudl work

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rustyj14

03-22-2005 10:04:46

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to old blue, 03-21-2005 18:43:39

What to do with an old Dish? A feller up in N.E. Pa. used his old, large dish antenna to build a real nice Gazebo! It made a fancy roof, and some judicious use of wrought iron railing and some square and round pipe, a lot of wleding and some nice white paint made it look really nice! by: Rustyj

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Redmud

03-21-2005 18:25:42

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Never had snow on my TV dish, mine has a cover over it. course the temp here was headin for the 80 mark today anyway, snow wouldn't never made it to the dish.

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wet in NY

03-21-2005 18:04:40

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Allan, I for one appreciate all of the conversations you have been/are engaging in, but I am curious, what exactly do you do for a living? I thought you were a teacher.

Also, did I miss the status of your dream farm? And I didn't catch how big it was.

Again thanks!

Yeah, I'm the quiet one and I'm taking it all in.

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Allan in NE

03-21-2005 19:52:49

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to wet in NY, 03-21-2005 18:04:40

Hi Guy,

Oh heck no, I'm dumbern' a fencepost staple.

We run an on line contracting company which allows folks to work from their home computer and my job around here is to keep all these servers up and running. My best friend is a Honda back up generator. :>)

Yes Sir, going to look at another farm on Saturday. It's been a long hard pull tryin' to find one that fits the bill.

Lotta junk out there; seems as though the good farms aren't for sale. :>(

Allan

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jhill

03-21-2005 18:01:47

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Alan

My dish dealer told me he sprays all new installations with silicone spray and if it is done every year it takes care on the problem.

Jerry

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Nebraska Cowman

03-21-2005 16:16:10

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

well don't fall off the roof.
Kinda yucky here to but I told the girls not to b*tch too loud. If it don't rain and snow now they won't have any grass to eat later. I gave them 4 bales of staw to lay on and it has quit snowing for the time being. gotta go back out in a minute and check on a new one and make sure he gets up and sucks.

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WyoDave

03-21-2005 18:36:39

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-21-2005 16:16:10

I can sure relate to that new one. Was home on spring break last week and calving is really heating up. We were having anywhere from 5-6 per day. Back at school today, and called home to see how it was going. Dad has 14 new ones on the ground including one set of twins. So far no problems, but cows sure can time it sometimes.
David

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Sloroll

03-21-2005 17:49:04

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-21-2005 16:16:10

Well I clean toilets AND fell off of the roof. Would have been pretty funny if on video. Left ski tracks down the pitch and an almost a perfect outline of myself in the snow drift. Had I not thrown my hand into the window on the way down I would have laughed (once I got my wind back). Lotta blood though. I won't adjust the antenna right after a snow ever again.. It is a Darwin thing.

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williamf

03-22-2005 06:44:16

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Sloroll, 03-21-2005 17:49:04

Fell off the roof cleaning toilets? Wass wrong with this picture?
Wm

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Allan in NE

03-21-2005 16:31:42

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-21-2005 16:16:10

Hi Howard,

You got that right; this is the first moisture we've had since the first part of November. Supposed to snow all night and all day tomorrow. Let 'er come, I say. 'Course, I'm not the feller with babies on the ground either.

Sure wish I could come down there to your plow days. Meetin' you and a lot of the guys from this board would be a treat and a memory maker, that's for sure.

Good luck with the new addition,

Allan

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Hound

03-21-2005 16:02:07

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

..hard to keep the wet sticky type of snow off them...we spray ours with pam cooking spray, seems to help. Hound

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Allan in NE

03-21-2005 16:11:39

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Hound, 03-21-2005 16:02:07

That's exactly what the wife just said.

Silly me, I thought she was talkin' 'bout the toilets. :>)

Allan

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Les...fortunate

03-21-2005 15:39:52

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Re: O/T Job Qualifications in reply to Allan in NE, 03-21-2005 15:23:30

Back when I had Primestar and then Directv, I used to have to sweep the snow off the dish about once a year to get the signal back.
Since I've had Dish, I don't think I've ever had to do it. And it ain't because we stopped having snow. The Dish dish is darn near vertical so the snow can't accumulate in it anyways. There would have to be some heavy wet stuff blowing directly onto it to make it stick and cause signal loss and that hasn't happened yet.

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