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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
I got news for you Bill the tree mount did you in for credibility  Actually I am caught between being in awe that it works, especially since it grows and wondering what would ever put a thought to do such a thing into ones mind.  |
Although it is still up, the tree mount was never intended to be permanent, it was just something I threw up in a hurry trying to pick up a sat that a tree was blocking on my big dish. But relative to "growing", I've never 100% beleived this, and have seen a few exceptions, but in theory trees don't really grow "UP", but grow "out", so if you mount something on a growing tree, it shouldn't really move much. When I was young, I set up a tent in the woods behind our house, and anchored one side of the tent to a pipe set in the crotch of a young tree. I came back home 10 or so years later, and the young tree still had the pipe imbedded between two limbs that had grown together, and was at about the same height off the ground as it had been 10 years earlier, and stuck out parallel to the ground. So in theory, if you cut off the top of a tree, and mount something there, it won't get any higher, although a young tree may tilt a bit, trying to reach the sun.
But back to my tree mount, I haven't really checked that to see if it is still close to the arc for nearly a year. I pretty much gave up on that dish because it was really warped badly due to the fact that it's ribs are hollow, and I let them fill with water, and they froze and burst over one winter, when I had it lying on the ground... ie they would have drained if I had it set up on a pole, but I ruined the thing. :-( I also didn't help it much by moving it from one side of my house to the other by rolling it on the ground. I keep thinking about trying to bend the thing back into shape, but I'll probably just scrap the thing.