Or learn how to make home made pizza for the wife that she loves and then u can both stay there ??
Wish u well with your plans.
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Originally Posted by Ric
Stay in the bush mate, home delivered pizza is way over-rated.
Cheers men...ah yes, I thiiiink that was just a metaphor for restaurants, shops, markets, theatre, human life etc (I pointed out the ambulance sirens, police sirens, trucks, high reving motorbikes, drunks etc...didn't work )
Yes, well...wife wishes to move back into the City so she can order home delivered pizza again, Mike very unhappy and wishes to stay in the country to enjoy the darker skies, wife is very happy to leave Mike in the country....Mike asks neighbours for help neighbours love the idea of an observatory on their place...everyone happy again
Rom has recipe for home made Pizza that will make wife want to stay in the country and be most appreciative
Been off line for a while with work and family life, but I see the world goes forward for all. I see it pays to keep your neighbours happy, very accommodating to let you use some land.
Yes the country discussion is a tough one, my wife loves the country life for short periods and I think I want to keep it that way at least for the moment (snakes really get her off side)
Thinking of building a pizza oven, maybe I need to work a bit harder on this to avoid your situation.
Been off line for a while with work and family life, but I see the world goes forward for all. I see it pays to keep your neighbours happy, very accommodating to let you use some land.
Yes the country discussion is a tough one, my wife loves the country life for short periods and I think I want to keep it that way at least for the moment (snakes really get her off side)
Thinking of building a pizza oven, maybe I need to work a bit harder on this to avoid your situation.
BBQ with hood and a pizza stone works for us, beautiful pizzas. Make your own base dough, add tomato piazza, Mozarella and toppings, plenty of garlic and olive oil .... better stop now, I'm getting hungry.
Nah no remote, essentially just a rework of the current setup but with some accomodation for my lumpy frame since I won't have my house to go back into, and I will likely control the scope from inside the accomodation wing
Road base packed and site leveled...and look, I will have a direct view to a distant Mt Stromlo Observatory when exiting the observatory, how cool is that?
Road base packed and site leveled...and look, I will have a direct view to a distant Mt Stromlo Observatory when exiting the observatory, how cool is that?
The support pier and footing will be formed in a single pour, if need be the Formatube can be removed for the start of the pour and along with the side access holes allow for easy access so the footing can be filled to the top, then the side hole overs will be replaced and screwed down and the Formatube re-positioned and secured in place and filled, then the bolt pattern sunk in the top. This will have the entire footing and support pier as a single solid unit.
The column will be 400mm dia and 600mm high and the 1000X700X650 footing goes down to rock too, so at a total weight of about 1300kg it should all be pretty solid
The Formwork design will facilitate a single concrete pour for a one piece monolithic footing and support column
The Formatube will be removed to allow good access to fill the footing with concrete then the side top access holes will be screwed closed and the Formatube secured back in place to pour the column.
Hopefully the surrounding elevated deck will be completed next weekend
Lookin good Mike, simple, effective. If you get the chance, stick a 1 inch plastic pipe somewhere in that tube to feed cables through so no cables loose on the floor later.
Monolithic pier was poured today using a single pour...thankfully the form-work held and didn't lift.
I marked true south with a star picket and red flag at 50m to align the bolt pattern on. I positioned the stake at night by standing behind the pier and sighting on the SCP (whose location I know very accurately) using binoculars and dropping them down over and over a few times to determine exactly where to place the stake and thus quite accurately position the bolt pattern
The elevated deck is being built around the pier on Wednesday and hopefully I can move the Sirius Observatory on the weekend and get the site shed delivered
The formwork was removed from the concrete support column this morning and the deck is now done, just some paint and then the Sirius Observatory can be dismantled from my place, moved a mere 600m and re-erected on top here
Leigh Bason and his Canberra Decks crew arrived around 8.30am and drove away at around 12.30pm....no way I could have done it that easily and that fast, so thanks boys
The 3.6m X 2.5m Ausco site shed control/warm room arrives next Tues morning
Very cool Mike!! Looks vaguely familiar. Definitely the way to go to get some pros to do the hard work in short order - took me a few weekends to build my deck! You painting it green?
Very cool Mike!! Looks vaguely familiar. Definitely the way to go to get some pros to do the hard work in short order - took me a few weekends to build my deck! You painting it green?
LOL yes looks familiar indeed...yours is perhaps a little more over-engineered but this was only $2K all up labour and materials, I recon that's a bargain and certainly beats all the logistics (remote unpowered site), materials and construction effort it would have taken me!! Cyclone rated stainless steel bugle head screws used throughout too
As for painting it green...hmmm? probably not...I am thinking plain white to match the dome...but maybe another earthy colour hmm? I know!!.. 70's Mission Brown!
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neighbours love the idea of an observatory on their place...everyone happy again 
probably not...I am thinking plain white to match the dome...but maybe another earthy colour hmm? I know!!.. 70's Mission Brown! 
