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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
I used 1 cubic metre each on all of my pier supports. In sand you will need to go fairly deep. Maybe go down to 700mm and see what is there.
I have not had to realign my first mount ever in 4 years since it was installed.
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Great, thanks Paul :-)
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Originally Posted by Manav
Depends on payload and size of mount, general rule of thumb is around one cubic meter. I found that too be a bit of a overkill for my setup and settled on 700mm^3.
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Thanks Yugant :-)
I'll be using an either an RC8 or an ED80 NEQ6Pro and I'm unlikely to be getting any bigger scopes, though I suppose I may upgrade the mount at some point. Not really sure what that weighs in total.
If my math is correct, I think 1m^3 will require roughly 1080kg of gravel, 720kg of sand and 360kg of cement, not to mention water. Man, that's a lot of hard work right there. My planned site isn't readily accessible to large vehicles so that would have do be done by hand (with a mixer preferably).
I might need to reconsider my planned site because I'm allergic to hard work ;-)