Try
http://www.defusco.com/Drill-Bits-Rotohammer-Chisels-&-Ground-Rod-Ground-Rod-Drivers/c65_70_279/index.html?osCsid=8q972bvs7jtintgv4btgec59q7
or http://tinyurl.com/6bzgv3 if the link gets mangled.
They list spline as well as SDS-MAX shank ground rod drivers for 5/8" and 3/4"
rods.
73 de Perry - K4PWO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Anderson" <andersonww5l@sbcglobal.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "Sluggo" Ground Rod driver
>
>
>
> Harbor Freight seems to just carry chisels and pointed drill
> bits for the 1" drill driver. Never seen one that will
> fit grounds. Even looked at the Hitachi drill drivers (a
> lot more $$$) at Lowe's and they don't seem to have
> one either, at least in the display at the Lowe's
> I've been in.
>
> Tom, WW5L
>
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 10/17/08, Larry Burke
>> <wi5a@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Larry Burke <wi5a@sbcglobal.net>
>> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "Sluggo" Ground Rod
>> driver
>> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> > Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 9:46 AM
>> > Rich didn't say they did, but just to be
>> clear..... The
>> > ground rod driver
>> > bit shown in the link will NOT fit the Harbor Freight
>> > hammer drills. I have
>> > yet to be able to find one that would. The Harbor
>> Freight
>> > drills use SDS
>> > (not SDS Max) bits. What I ended up doing was taking
>> one of
>> > the fat concrete
>> > chipper bits that came with the hammer drill and
>> cutting
>> > off the tip with an
>> > angle grinder. I then slipped a piece of heater hose
>> over
>> > the bit, extending
>> > it about 4 inches beyond the end of the tip, and held
>> it
>> > in place with a
>> > hose clamp. The heater hose does a fair job of keeping
>> the
>> > ground rod from
>> > slipping off the modified hammer drill bit. This setup
>> is
>> > not as elegant as
>> > a commercial bit, but it's a heck of a lot cheaper
>> than
>> > the SDS Max bits,
>> > which don't fit the drill anyway.
>> >
>> > Larry K5RK
>> >
>> >
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