Tripod foundations?

[vulcan]

The best viewing place in my back garden is in the middle of a lawn and my heavy NEQ6 mount needs some kind of foundation a. so that the tripod doesn't sink into the ground and b. to provide a 'ball park' direction for polar aligning every time I set up. I am thinking of something that is not going to affect mowing so three 'cups' or bricks of some sort sunk into the ground would seem ideal. Has anybody done anything like this?

[Psychobilly]

You used to be able to get small round paving stones but couldnt find them when I was looking last year so I set three bricks end on into the ground slightly below soil level so they could be mown over...

Dont worry about leveling them you can do that in the tripod legs as its always going back in the same place. I used Celestron AV pads on them

Couple of weeks later I got permission to put another pier in outside the obs...

Billy...

[Doug]

Hi

I remember seeing about a year ago sum feet cups that also stops fibration and made of a rubber compound

Im sure some of the guy and girl may know were to get them

Doug

Essex

[Psychobilly]

Celestron and Skywatcher both do AV pads...

http://firstlightoptics.com/proddetail.php?prod=CelVibrationSupPads

[LukeSkywatcher]

Most garden centres sell small round,square or hexagonal paving tiles/stones. They are only a couple of inches in diameter. They would be ideal.