Futile but pleasant

rrlund · Jun 13, 2013

Just had an experience with Direct TV that I wasn't expecting. Darned signal has been locking up on some channels lately but not on others. It was OK for three or four days,but today was about impossible. I've run all the tests,done everything I know to do. Finally had to call them. Took forever to get a live person,expected to get an Indian,but it was a southern good ol boy. He had me do all the things I'd already done,plus a few more. Still got the same message,something about dish pointing or trees in the way. I told him I guess I'll have to get one of the boys in the loader bucket with the chain saw this weekend. He said "yea,that or a shotgun". I had to laugh. He said he'd had the same trouble with his a few weeks ago,said it was only the channels he wanted to watch too. Said he had to take off two or three limbs and it works OK now.

Didn't fix the problem for me,but it was a pretty good experience anyway.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 13, 2013

We had Direct TV years ago - similiar problem, when they installed the dish it worked great but about two years later the trees had grown enough to block the signal.

Texasmark1 · Jun 13, 2013

I have the problem with local broad band service (ground station). I can get 4x the bandwidth for 1/2 the money, but you can't get to it because of the trees. The trees stay. That settles that.

Mark

old-9 · Jun 13, 2013

Yes, a 12 gage shotgun will trim trees. I trim branches every coupla years from interfearing with my flag. This is a popular tree and soft wood.
Low brass will cut an inch and a half branch almost twenty feet up. joe

Paul from MI · Jun 13, 2013

Some years ago one of my neighbors bought his son a shotgun for his birthday. Their house and lot borders one of my fields. I had no corn on a 35' circle behind the house, the kid shot it all off with his new shotgun. Wonder how many boxes of shells it took to kill my corn? Don't tell anyone, I'll probably get docked for high lead levels next fall.

fixerupper · Jun 13, 2013

When I was in my young teens we were sitting outside the door on a summer evening when we heard a ruckus in the chicken house. We had young hens in there that were probably 3/4 grown. I grabbed the flashlight and dad grabbed the 12 gauge and headed over there. When we got to the door a civet was carrying a live chicken out the door. Dad took aim to the rear of the civet to try to save the chicken and blasted away. The civet dropped the chicken and disappeared in the corn field but laying there on the ground was the civet's tail and one corn plant. The chicken went running back into the chicken house. The civet never came back. We were just about ready to go close the door for the night before this happened but it did add some excitement to the evening. Jim

T in NE · Jun 15, 2013

Wish I would have thought of that when my grandmother lost RFDTV. She didn't want any more trees gone out of the back yard so she does without. Not that the back yard isn't cut out of the woods or anything.

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