If that's the case, why bother with the rods at all? Just lay *a lot* of
copper strap in a trench as deep as practical and call it good? 2" wide strap
is the same as the circumference of a 5/8" ground rod, but has twice the
surface area because there are two sides to the strap.
Chris
KF7P
On Nov 12, 2012, at 16:10 , n8de@thepoint.net wrote:
Ground rods to NOT have to be driven VERTICALLY DOWNWARD ... just INTO the
soil.
73
Don
N8DE
Quoting Mat Eshpeter <kk1c@live.com>:
>
> I am finally getting around to putting up my 60' AN Wireless tower on top of
> a rocky ridge in WV. I rented a Hilti demo hammer and got about 1/3 of my
> rods in to the ground at least 4' -- but the majority are only 2 or 3 feet
> deep because of the rocks/ledges. I don't think I have much of a choice
> other than to cut the rods off and drive the remnants into the ground field
> and exothermically weld my 20 gauge copper strap to all of these shallow
> rods.
> Other than paying big money for a well drilling rig to drill some deep 6"
> holes and filling them with bentonite (which may not be possible given the
> slope of the land and the fact that I now have 8 trenches running 75' out
> from the tower pad) do I have any other practical alternatives?
> tnx,Matkk1c
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