Managed to get some more work done on Eagleview Observatory.
Yesterday the final load of road base was delivered up to site and today the site cut was finished off with some fine grading and levelling as well as cutting a path up from the house. A 75-100mm layer of road base was spread and levelled over the whole site, with just a slight (~30mm) fall across the pad for drainage.
The felled and old dead trees behind the observatory, that were pushed over by the 15T excavator a few weeks ago, were cleared and piled up away from the observatory, ready for a big winter bonfire
. Along with providing the observatory with almost complete 360deg unobstructed sky views, this has also resulted in a beautiful large open flat area, perched just above and behind the new observing pad, just begging to have a few telescopes setup and some tents pitched
I will be organising the fabrication of the rebar cage next week, building the formwork to enable a single pour monolithic concrete footing with 750mm tall support column and hopefully soon after that, have my 3.6m X 2.5m site shed/control room, relocated to the new site
from my old observatory.
Feels like progress
All Eagleview Observatory construction photos can be viewed
HERE
Mike