marcus139
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DirecTV or Cable? I'm sure an arborist can help me.
Hello,
I live in the Philadelphia area and when I moved to this house 5 years ago I installed a DirecTV dish in the only spot I had a clear view of the satellite, even though I knew the tree in front of the dish would eventually grow and affect my reception. Well, I think that time has come. My reception has slowly worsen and I think it is because it is affected by the tree that has grown in the path. Moving the dish to another location is not an option. It's a small house with many trees around it and two separate DirecTV guys confirmed my assessment that there is just not another spot that could work.
So that brings me to what I think are my options:
My personal bad experiences with the local cable company make me really consider trimming the tree. The only way I could go back to cable is if I hear any advise here against having the pine trimmed. Of course me not knowing anything about trees, I don't even know what happens if you trim the top of a pine. My guess is that its characteristic conical shape will be ruined for life as the top may never re-grow straight up. Is this the case? Is it a common thing to cut pine trees tops? What happens to the top after that? Does it re-grow in a natural look of is it going to fork many new horns from where it was cut?
Here's some pics...
Hello,
I live in the Philadelphia area and when I moved to this house 5 years ago I installed a DirecTV dish in the only spot I had a clear view of the satellite, even though I knew the tree in front of the dish would eventually grow and affect my reception. Well, I think that time has come. My reception has slowly worsen and I think it is because it is affected by the tree that has grown in the path. Moving the dish to another location is not an option. It's a small house with many trees around it and two separate DirecTV guys confirmed my assessment that there is just not another spot that could work.
So that brings me to what I think are my options:
- Cut the top of the tree to clear the view for the dish and keep DTV
- Switch to cable and forget about this dish inconvenience.
My personal bad experiences with the local cable company make me really consider trimming the tree. The only way I could go back to cable is if I hear any advise here against having the pine trimmed. Of course me not knowing anything about trees, I don't even know what happens if you trim the top of a pine. My guess is that its characteristic conical shape will be ruined for life as the top may never re-grow straight up. Is this the case? Is it a common thing to cut pine trees tops? What happens to the top after that? Does it re-grow in a natural look of is it going to fork many new horns from where it was cut?
Here's some pics...