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Survey tripods are roughly equivalent to the larger sized stainless steel tube legs that ship with say a Skywatcher EQ5 or EQ6.
Better though are the Oberwerk tripods.
Then there's Berlebach; in addition to mine, I have seen a few others with the Berlebach Planet with say EQ6 or AZEQ6 mounts on top; and I have seen a couple of the smaller Reports with altaz mounts with smallish scopes (a C5 and a 127mm Mak, as I recall). The Planet is a significant improvement over all the survey tripods, and vastly better than the Skywatcher metal ones. Berlebach ship to Australia and no issues. Berlebach will supply the head to match specific mounts too.
There's the Geoptik Hercules too, though I haven't seen one here.
There are some heavy-duty metal ones I am aware of too, the AP Eagle for example.
You can also buy aluminium tripods from Losmandy.
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