[The_bluester (Paul)]

Following a few other people's efforts I have been thinking more and more bout putting in a pier for my Celestron CPC scope. Most people seem to have gone a different direction to what I was thinking to set it in the ground though. I was looking for any advise if I might be opening myself up to potential problems.


My plan was that next time we hire a dingo digger for works around the place, use the auger to make a 600mm hole for the pier of around 800mm depth to directly set the pier in concrete. Will that be an adequate and movement/vibration free way to set a pier in the ground or would I be better casting a larger pad and bolting the pier on top?

I was thinking to keep the concrete away from vibration inducing feet and to allow me to build an isolated floor right up to the post if I get to enclose it in an obs.