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Old 02-04-2008, 08:44 AM
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Do any of you have a shed on a turntable,I have looked at vehicle turntables
but at £6000 and up these are non starters are there plans available to build your own ?
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Old 02-04-2008, 11:34 AM
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Hi there,

google "garden observatory plans" and there are a few interesting ones on there where people have built there own sliding roof sheds/domes.

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Old 02-04-2008, 06:52 PM
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Re: Turn around

how about mounting the shed base on 6 or 8 shopping trolly wheels or simalar,
have a motor driven wheel to turn the shed, obviously it will need a track or guide to keep it in a circle

also as you probably know will need a input for the motor to keep it in time with the earths motion if doing long exp pics

maybe you can get just the motor drive from a proper obs'

have you looked at components for proper motorised obs' ?

mind you if you not worried about keeping the motion of the shed its self in time with the earth then you should be able to turn it with and 240 motor or even manully

shopping trolly wheels are fantasticly usefull, i use them for moving smashed cars, even with the engines still in

personally i would leave the shed base fixed and have the seating position along with the scope and roof / dome that rotates,
if you get an iron works to make the large circular track for the roof / dome to rotate on the rest you might be able to do yourself

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Old 03-04-2008, 12:34 PM
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Re: Turn around

I must admit the reason I posted here was that you were the most likley group to have the Info.
I actually have always wanted a rotating hide/summerhouse to follow the sun and wildlife as it moves around my garden and of course do the occasional stargazing
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Old 03-04-2008, 07:12 PM
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so nightshade, any idea which type of design you are thinking would work best for you yet?
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I must admit the reason I posted here was that you were the most likley group to have the Info.
I actually have always wanted a rotating hide/summerhouse to follow the sun and wildlife as it moves around my garden and of course do the occasional stargazing
Thank you all for your help
The guy next door but 2 has a lovely rotating summer-house, propbably from about 1920 or so. Never been used in the last 20 years. Makes yer cry.
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Old 04-04-2008, 02:18 AM
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hmmm, just had a thought, what about old funfair / playground equipment, i did see a specific scrap / salvage yard a few years back for that type of stuff, no idea where but they would have large turn table bases and tracks
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Wy not have a circular or octagonal shed with glass walls from waist height upwards, and blinds on each section. Then you can move which windows you are using.
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What about the creatures that live under a shed? eg hedgehog, fox? Eek!
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What about the creatures that live under a shed? eg hedgehog, fox? Eek!
The rotatery will move only slowly powered by a man with a red flag and a whistle, no animals will be harmed in the production of this heath robinson device
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of course you could spice things up and see if anyone is breaking up a military tank, turning turret and scope housing in one
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of course you could spice things up and see if anyone is breaking up a military tank, turning turret and scope housing in one
Good thought! What about a naval dockyard, full sighting and ranging systems, and protection against the sky falling on your head.
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powered by a man with a red flag and a whistle
He he! Can we have a picture? This we MUST see.
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Wy not have a circular or octagonal shed with glass walls from waist height upwards, and blinds on each section. Then you can move which windows you are using.
Badgerwatcher,I thought we had lost you at one time,what an emminently sensible idea but being a man with an idea I will try and see it through
There may be a delay though as I have just had my family build a posh hardstanding for the Tin Tent and the next project is to rejig the short
"stream" that brings in so many birds the rotator is to sit there under a Weeping Birch
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hmmm, just had a thought, what about old funfair / playground equipment, i did see a specific scrap / salvage yard a few years back for that type of stuff, no idea where but they would have large turn table bases and tracks
Caladina you jogged my mind with that suggestion,I have seen something similar near here, thanks
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