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made up a mould and cast the cappings for my gate piers. They probably
wouldn't have cost much to buy, but it was just an interesting project
to make them from scratch. I could have used trigonometry to work out
the sizes of the triangles for the mould's pyramid faces, knowing the
overall height, but I drew it in Sketchup, a free 3D CAD application,
and then just measured the side lengths with the tape measure tool in
the application. I used my old kitchen cupboard panels to line the mould
to get a smooth finish on the concrete. This would have been great for
the pillars themselves, but I just used shutter ply (which cost more
than the 2.5 tonnes of concrete).
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