what to do with a satallit dish?

For usefulness just get rid of it. Someone else may have a need. If you want to have fun and just ---- around with it many of the above ideas are good ones. My BIL is in process of converting a 6' dish into a solar collector with a boiler at it's focal point. Run this into a turbine atached to a dc motor and you've got power.

He got his plans from redrok.com

It was a Florida State
Masters thesis project

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Okay, enough, what is the dish made out of? I always think of fiberglass ones but it seems others automatically think metal mesh.

Some of the ideas that could be used with fiberglass wouldn't work with metal mesh.

grape arbor if turned upside down.

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I just love the grape arbor! I have a really big one about 12 feet across and quite old. It's in full sun so makes an ideal place for planting climbing roses and clematis. I sure wish I was strong enough to turn it over like agmantoo did!

Remember that if you turn it over, on or in the ground and put anything in it, you will have to empty it sooner or later. Sooner, like every day, if you use it for ducks etc.I think it's too little for that.

Yours is a rather small dish so could handle it OK if you wanted to move it around.

have fun, I love seeing the fun ideas!

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I lol, we had a dish, that I came up with like you, so many ways to use it. The DH said, No, and called out the scrap metal guy to come get it. Well, I'm very happy he did, because it would have been another project that never gets done. So many ideas and so little time.

OK It's not creative, but haul it to a recycling center and make a couple bucks.

Use it. There are still some C Band Free To Air signals out there. If I remember right you can even adapt them for satellite internet access.

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I filled mine with dirt and made a planter out of it. It is easy to weed as it is up off of the ground.

WOW! so many ideas in a day. i knew i could count on you all!
agmantoo thats what i want to do with it for trumpet vines (humming birds), after some growning and pruning it would make a neat play area for the kids
but i hadn't thought of grapes...thinking now!
but like another stated i'm afraid it will probably be another project that doesn't get done
i'll show DH this thread tonight when we both get home
he willl probably want to do the solar cooker

it is a metal mesh dish

thnaks folks!

Now, THAT idea I love! I'll be looking for a discarded sattelite.

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SILEIGH,
This project is not nearly involved as it may appear. I managed to turn the antenna over using the same hardware that it used as a dish antenna. Taking the mesh off was time consuming as I took all the screws out. The main pipe for the upright is an old recycled tapered lamp post that I cut off where the taper pole would fit the dish original support barcket. Digging the post hole took a little time and viola it was finished. I did touch up the paint with a spray can. Eventually I plan to make a circular seat under the vine. I have a really large pinwheel design trellis (24 plus ft diameter) that I have a muscadine vine supported. The yield of the muscadine is most rewarding. I have not posted a pic of that trellis as the area needs the grass mowed and the canopy of the mower will not go under the trellis. ( I had the trellis prior to the mower or I would have made the trellis taller, plus kids would not be able to reach the grapes if the trellis was taller)

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