Lynn and I found a site so remote that it is 9 miles from a 'paved' road (14 miles from a paved county highway) surrounded by 4 ranches, three of them over 550 acres.   We had to add power, fencing and trench for our underground power and construct our power meter and disconnect rack.  I hand laid 133 feet of the schedule 80, 3" diameter pipe by myself in the West Texas heat of 95-110 degrees!

One issue I hadn't even thought of was how to run my required 2500 lbs tensile strength tether line through almost 100' of pipe underground.  Using a fish tape was not an option due to the distance and being in the middle of no where!  One of the guys at the electric company told me to tie a plastic bag on the tether line and use a leaf blower to run the tether.  I thought he was messing with me.  He wasn't. I did as he said and that tether came out of the other side of the pipe like a freaking Tomahawk Missle!  It happened so fast it came out the other side as soon as I looked up!

The cement pad for the Sky Shed POD-S Mark IV is 14'x14' and in the center the isolated pier slab is 24"x24". You will notice that our slab is actually two different pours.  The center slab is the isolation slab and holds the telescope.  There is a 2" gap between the two slabs to prevent any vibrations from the structure moving the telescope in anyway.  Isolation of your imaging pier is essential when capturing deep sky images.   Under the pier slab the pier base is a 20" diameter hole drilled into solid rock down to 36". The 12" and 20" pours are connected with rebar that terminate where the 5/8" stainless steel bolts that hold the mounting plate for the telescope.  Finally, the actual pier holding the telescope is 12" in diameter and 42" high.  The telescope pier has power and Cat6 running through it encased in conduit.