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Originally Posted by wejones

You're probably right, but I wonder about whether a counter weight of some kind might help. I tightened down the bolts too much on my 10' dish, and it got so that my motor couldn't move my dish in the winter, so I bolted on a counter-weight bar, and hung a big log from the bar. This helped a bit, but not enough, and I'd still get stuck near my west horizon, so I connected a bungy cord from the log to a nearby tree.



That seemed to work well enough for me to get back from the far west sats. Eventually I figured out that all I needed to do was loosen the bolts, but the counter-weight thing helped until I figured that out.

Oh Bill this combined with the dishtree or is it a treedish? Remind me to call you if I ever need signal in the wilderness