mmckenna
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…the a$$hat that thought holding the weather head on with a ty-wrap was a good idea.
They never fail on a warm sunny day in June.
Got a call from our PD at about 4pm. Someone found an odd metal object outside the building. Someone figured out it was the top of a weather head. Only weather heads on the building are used as coax feed throughs. They are concerned that it is raining, and expect to rain hard for the next few days. Missing weather head is a bad idea.
So, I respond.
screws are corroded into the aluminum weather head. I had to drill new holes. Tap said holes. Install new screws.
Still raining. But now the added benefit of dark and cold.
Steep pitch roof. Wet roof. All the antennas are set down the steep ridge line of the rooftop. Roof is wet. At least there's a safety cable.
Into the full body harness, climb up the ladder, out onto the roof. Climb around antennas to get to the weather head that's missing its head. Of course some installer decided that fixing it wasn't important and one ty-wrap to hold it on was sufficient for the "tail-light guarantee".
Attach the top, start screwing it down, drop the screwdriver down the roof and it disappears. Fortunately I don't hear anyone yell "OUCH", so I figure I'm good.
Climb back along the roof peak. Still raining. Still cold. Still dark. Wind my way around the other antennas. Silently cursing the moron that designed the facility. He should have been tarred and feathered, then horsewhipped. Back down the hatch. Out of the harness. Everything back in the truck. Then go look for the screwdriver. Found it, but it's inaccessible on a section of roof I'm not going to climb in the rain.
I want to personally thank the jackwagon that figured a ty-wrap was "good enough". These things always fail at night, in the rain. I also want to personally thank the "expert" architect that decided a proper tower was "ugly" and putting everything down the roof peak was a great idea.
Sure beats sitting in the office, though.
They never fail on a warm sunny day in June.
Got a call from our PD at about 4pm. Someone found an odd metal object outside the building. Someone figured out it was the top of a weather head. Only weather heads on the building are used as coax feed throughs. They are concerned that it is raining, and expect to rain hard for the next few days. Missing weather head is a bad idea.
So, I respond.
screws are corroded into the aluminum weather head. I had to drill new holes. Tap said holes. Install new screws.
Still raining. But now the added benefit of dark and cold.
Steep pitch roof. Wet roof. All the antennas are set down the steep ridge line of the rooftop. Roof is wet. At least there's a safety cable.
Into the full body harness, climb up the ladder, out onto the roof. Climb around antennas to get to the weather head that's missing its head. Of course some installer decided that fixing it wasn't important and one ty-wrap to hold it on was sufficient for the "tail-light guarantee".
Attach the top, start screwing it down, drop the screwdriver down the roof and it disappears. Fortunately I don't hear anyone yell "OUCH", so I figure I'm good.
(dropping a screwdriver off the roof and onto a passing police officer sounds like the plot for a Arlo Guthrie Jr. song)
Finished up with a leatherman tool. Managed to not drop that. Climb back along the roof peak. Still raining. Still cold. Still dark. Wind my way around the other antennas. Silently cursing the moron that designed the facility. He should have been tarred and feathered, then horsewhipped. Back down the hatch. Out of the harness. Everything back in the truck. Then go look for the screwdriver. Found it, but it's inaccessible on a section of roof I'm not going to climb in the rain.
I want to personally thank the jackwagon that figured a ty-wrap was "good enough". These things always fail at night, in the rain. I also want to personally thank the "expert" architect that decided a proper tower was "ugly" and putting everything down the roof peak was a great idea.
Sure beats sitting in the office, though.
