I thought this might be of some passing interest. Today I excavated the bare copper ground wire that I ran between each tower leg and an 8-foot copper-plated steel ground rod when my tower was instal
You're lucky, Pete. About 12 years ago I dug up a rod that had been in the ground only 3 years. The clamp had completely disintegrated and the wire was no longer connected to the rod. Must be a lot m
I put in some temporary grounds using the acorn type connector as I was going to be removing them shortly. Unfortunately it was nearly a year before the back hoe could get in to change out the septic
That's why I said "in some conditions", Dick - I'm sure our soil is quite alkaline, because there is limestone under the surface anywhere from a few inches to a few feet, which is constantly leaching