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My homemade wedge proved wholly inadequate. The horizontal pieces on top of the tripod are 18 ply 2 1/8" structural stair treads, screwed and glued. Wind of any kind completely wipes out the view thru the scope, regardless of how low power / wide field I was operating at. In addition, any touching of the scope and you could see the wood move. Wholly inadequate...

Then in the summer of 2010, the LX200 electronics starting acting up at the same time a donated Meade Superwedge was placed in the mail headed to me. Time to do something better..

I have been thinking of this for years, and acquired a pile of 4" x 8" and 4" x 10" and other misc timbers. I have the design in my head, but I figure I might just start doing it, or it will never get done.

This is to be my pier. 85" long. 1/2" x 7" lags w/ 2" square washers. There are (4) 4x10s wrapped around an 8x8.

Cost?  Nothing..

In the hole.. Those are bits of 1" concrete remnants from core drilling holes in concrete. I am using them as gravel drainage in the bottom of the hole.

Currently free standing, and facing North. This view is to the Northwest.