From: "Scott Berfield" 
To: 
Reply-To: "Scott Berfield" 


 I know a guy who did his pier in his garden as a nice column with a
gazing ball on top. When he went to observe, he would lift off the Ball and
top and Bolt on his mount. He could sell his place and the new owners would
never know it was a pier.

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From: owner-atm{at}shore.net [mailto:owner-atm{at}shore.net] On Behalf Of
Dominic-Luc Webb
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:34 PM To: scottythefiddler
Cc: Uwe Suessenberger; atm{at}shore.net
Subject: Re: ATM Concrete Piers


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, scottythefiddler wrote:

>
> Your wife is partly right, there is a lot of concrete work that is
"ugly as
> sin".   One might consider something more decorative than a sonotube
pier,
> for example casting a corrinthian column, with plinths and flutes.
> Alternatively, one could create a pier from footing level up to grade
> level, and fasten a precast column to this foundation, purchased at a
garden
> center.   In fact, there is a lot of decorative statuary that could be
used
> if one has an artistic flair.  Imagine a Venus di Milo supporting your

> scope, or Atlas, or even Galileo....food for thought.


Fare enough, one of mine was so ugly, I ground it against a piece of plate
iron. The result was a fine ground (down to 500 grit) concrete piece that
looked like polished stone found in some kind of decorative architectural
structure. I highly recommend trying your SiC grinding compound on concrete
if appearance matters. Grinding concrete against iron goes really fast,
relative to making a mirror.

Dominic

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