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08-23-2013, 04:22 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Afton
Posts: 166
M.O.C. #9256
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Dish tailgater security
Now that I've got this thing hooked up I can't keep it in one place. The wind keeps wanting to blow it down thee road. Has anybody put a net of some sort over it?
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08-23-2013, 04:44 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Sioux Falls
Posts: 729
M.O.C. #3206
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I've seen a number of these units just sitting on the roof of the slide-out- I'm giving serious thought to trying this method out- Don
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08-23-2013, 05:21 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Arroyo City
Posts: 3,110
M.O.C. #13395
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Mine sits on the LR slide, never had a problem, yet
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08-23-2013, 05:24 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Santa Fe Springs
Posts: 4,189
M.O.C. #639
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get a bungy cord, and 2 tent stakes and secure it down to the ground that way
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Pulling a 2004, 2980 RL an oldie but goodie.
Tow vehicle is a 2009 RED RAM 3500 DRW.
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08-23-2013, 05:26 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Victor
Posts: 940
M.O.C. #1709
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I took a piece of the poly cutting boards and zip tied it to the top of my ladder. Can bungee the wires to the ladder to keep them from rattling. I took a base that you can buy in the mounting kit and bolted it to the poly and then the sat sits in this. You turn the other piece and it locks the dish to the base. If you look at these mounting kits on line I'm sure you could make one to work similar. I use my step ladder and then pull the dish up with a rope.
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08-24-2013, 03:27 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Healdsburg
Posts: 273
M.O.C. #13339
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How about a milk crate/plastic. Provide a wide foot and sides that keep if from blowing over.. and a secure place to store it when traveling.
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08-24-2013, 04:18 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: McKinney
Posts: 7,159
M.O.C. #6433
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Wow. Had not even thought about that being a problem. Some really high winds and mine has never turned over. Have always just set mine on the ground.
I keep an assortment of bungees and tent stakes. Guess I will give that a try if the problem does come up.
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Bill & Patricia
Riley, our Golden
2007 3075RL (recently sold, currently without)
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08-24-2013, 01:16 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Afton
Posts: 166
M.O.C. #9256
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I've got it tied to the top of the ladder right now, when we get home i'll make something more substantial Along the lines of what y'all suggested. Thanks
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08-24-2013, 05:11 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Port Orchard
Posts: 1,153
M.O.C. #3403
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At least yours is working. We had ours just over a year, use 4 times, and it stopped working (and it never tipped over in the wind). Now it's back at King Controls (manufacture) hopefully getting fixed and will not cost us too much.
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08-25-2013, 07:20 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Wheatland
Posts: 675
M.O.C. #10623
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We had a similar problem so I went up on top of the trailer pulled the manual roof mounted dish off, mounted the Tailgater to a 12" square aluminum plate, then screwed the aluminum plate to the roof where the other dish was mounted making it a permanent fixture. I used almost a whole tube of that expensive sealer so it wouldn't leak. We are now 13'5" when hooked up to the truck. So far it's worked great with no problems.
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