Weight of a Satellite dish ?

jCarroll · Mar 4, 2013

The dish is a 10' diameter, molded fiberglas receiver.

What do you think it weighs - without any of the steel mounting hardware ?

If 2 guys can handle it, it'll be a roof over the picnic table outside the tractor shed.

Justin SE IOWA · Mar 4, 2013

My brother and I carried one for a couple hundred feet once. You can do it with a helper.

MSD · Mar 4, 2013

Actually the mesh ones work better. You better have a pretty good mount to let it hang there. I saw one take off in the wind one time.

ohiojim · Mar 5, 2013

mesh one's work better for a roof ????????????????

DownSouth · Mar 5, 2013

Can't answer your question, but thought I would share these two pictures I took a couple of weeks ago. I went to an estate auction at a run down business that once was a welding shop. It appeared it had been closed for years and there was junk laying everywhere. Anyway I walked out back and saw this dish mounted like you want to do and for some reason took these pics thinking maybe someday if I found a dish for next to nothing I would do something like this. I didn't pay any attention to how it was mounted, but I did see in the center he used a disc with the hole welded shut to cover the large dish hole. It looked like it had been there for years, and we get a lot of wind here and it was still standing tall and strong....and a bit ugly!

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jCarroll · Mar 5, 2013

Hey! downsouth .........
We spend a few months in Alamo - I know you're in that vacinity. But we returned to Ohio a couple months too early this year. Sigh

Thx 4 the photos. That's the dish - a friend has it - wants it gone. My idea is to mount it using an old utility pole up through the center hole, and bracing it from above - leaving a cover with only one post in the center. Once you get a crazy idea - you have to deal with it!

DownSouth · Mar 5, 2013

Yep, I would say you went home WAY to early! This has been an odd year with so many cool fronts blowing in this far south, last year we had 2 days of winter and went straight to summer forgetting all about spring!
We are in La Feria east of Alamo. The dish I took the pictures of was up in Raymondville north of us. I like the single pole in the center idea but not sure how well that would work here with all the wind. Up there don't forget to consider any snow load if the dish has a rolled lip on the edges that will turn upward once the dish is upside down.
Be sure and post some pictures once you "Git Er Done"!

MSD · Mar 5, 2013

If you want to keep the rain out no but to keep the sun out yes. They will cut enough sunlight to make it shady and you don't have the heat buildup like under the fiberglass dome. Looks much better also.

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