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Originally Posted by Dealy
I reckon you're pretty right about that. Unless you have a scope the size of a mule I'm sure something the size you're talking about will work fine.
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Originally Posted by Neil
 Mine is in clay, so I went 1 cubic metre, over two years now It hasn't moved, and by the way the hard work is definitely digging the bloody hole!
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Spot on there, digging the hole certainly wasn't fun! I've only gone 1100 square by 500 deep for the hole. Footing will finish about 100 above the ground, giving a total size of 1100L x 1100W x 600D.
Top 200-300 was nice, soft, sandy stuff, then we hit a layer with a fair amount of rock, below which was clay. Hopefully this'll do the trick, because even that size was hard enough yakka for an office slob like me ;-)
I have a local guy coming in to do the concreting tomorrow morning. He was going to get a truck in but after seeing the site he confirmed my suspicion that it wasn't possible and will have to be done by hand.
Turns out since starting this thread my mount has changed again and it'll now have an EQ8 sitting on top of it. For the moment I'm literally going to set the pier tripod it came with on top.