Good news -- a tree branch ripped off my antenna
Our trailer came with a roof mounted radio antenna that looked like a white plastic pizza floating a foot above the trailer on a plastic stalk. We don't have a television, and the radio that came with the trailer is useless. But I was worried about a tree branch on some remote forest road getting hooked under the pizza and making a huge hole in my roof. I have always wanted to remove the pizza -- a terrible design -- but I was afraid of messing around with the roof.
Yesterday, pulling the trailer down my own street after coming home from the shop, guess what -- the pizza got hooked on a neighbor's tree that extended out over the street. The pizza popped off and clattered onto the pavement. After all that boondocking, this did not happen on a forest road -- on my own street! Not in a rainstorm! With all of my hardware and tools at hand! Lucky!
Today, I got out my big ladder and climbed up -- no real damage to the trailer's roof, thankfully. I drastically shortened the plastic "stalk" that was still attached to the roof -- easy to do with a hacksaw. I caulked the little hole where the cable comes through the roof. I sealed the top opening in the stalk with a liberal application of gorilla tape. The radio works as well as it ever did, which is not saying much.
Best yet, I no longer have to worry about that darn antenna on those sketchy forest roads!!
The best disasters are those that happen conveniently.
Yesterday, pulling the trailer down my own street after coming home from the shop, guess what -- the pizza got hooked on a neighbor's tree that extended out over the street. The pizza popped off and clattered onto the pavement. After all that boondocking, this did not happen on a forest road -- on my own street! Not in a rainstorm! With all of my hardware and tools at hand! Lucky!
Today, I got out my big ladder and climbed up -- no real damage to the trailer's roof, thankfully. I drastically shortened the plastic "stalk" that was still attached to the roof -- easy to do with a hacksaw. I caulked the little hole where the cable comes through the roof. I sealed the top opening in the stalk with a liberal application of gorilla tape. The radio works as well as it ever did, which is not saying much.
Best yet, I no longer have to worry about that darn antenna on those sketchy forest roads!!
The best disasters are those that happen conveniently.
