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41. [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: dick.green@valley.net ("Dick Green".); Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:17:36 -0400; If it's that hard to pound a ground rod in this "soil", can it really be conductive enough for a useful ground? If there are enough of them, I think your lengths of 1 1/2" strap will do a much better; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-09/msg00423.html (10,014 bytes)
42. [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: stan@ccsnet.com (stan@ccsnet.com); Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:54:44 -0500; Consider using the BOSCH "BRUTE" electric hammer drill. They offer many adapters for ground rods. It can be a 2 person job with 8' rods..... Stan, WA1ECF Cape Cod, MA FN41sr to: INT:w2up@itw.com cc:; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-09/msg00459.html (7,654 bytes)
43. [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>; Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:14:24 -0500; Allen: If your soil is relatively soft; like ours is here, (sandy-loam; no hard-packed clay) I use a fence post driver from Tractor Supply. It is a 3" pipe sealed at the top end, and maybe 18--24"lon; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-08/msg01107.html (7,778 bytes)
44. [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Gary K9GS <garyk9gs@wi.rr.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:13:57 -0500; While on the topic of ground rods. Today I had to drive some 5/8 X 8 foot ground rods. I live on top of a ridge that was part of the glacial push South into Southern Wisconsin. Think sandy rocky soil; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00179.html (8,279 bytes)
45. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "Patrick Greenlee" <patrick_g@windstream.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 21:20:03 -0500; Ditto, I use a Harbor Freight demo hammer and a home brew insert (to avoid $80 + shipping for store bought AKA COTS.) Works good but in really hard ground takes a while and don't forget the hearing p; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00183.html (9,909 bytes)
46. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Gary K9GS <garyk9gs@wi.rr.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 21:35:22 -0500; All good advice Patrick. I especially like the idea of slipping pipe over the ground rod. I used 5/8" ground rods so bending wasn't a problem. I also had a friend helping so had an extra pair of hand; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00185.html (12,617 bytes)
47. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "Patrick Greenlee" <patrick_g@windstream.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:04:05 -0500; I was commenting on 5/8 ground rods. Hard ground and a sledge will bend a 5/8 or 3/4 way too much to continue driving long before it is half in the ground, hence the utility of placing a piece of wat; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00187.html (13,826 bytes)
48. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "K0DAN" <k0dan@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:10:22 -0500; Wow, good info thanks! I'm real close to renting a demo hammer. Needed to this for years, add a dozen new rods into an established established ground. But now I am too old & lazy to use a fence post; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00188.html (11,307 bytes)
49. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "John Hudson" <jd_hudson@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:40:35 -0500; A few years back I was doing some remodeling and barrowed a buddies Makita hammer drill to knock a hole in some brick and a couple in our club was installing phased Hy Towers and they had 17 ground r; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00189.html (11,876 bytes)
50. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:53:10 -0700; Gary many of the big names hammer drills have the ground rod adaptor. The trick is to find the rental co who has them both. I use to use a home brew dual handled piece of 2" od 1/2" wall X 36". But s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00190.html (9,952 bytes)
51. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: john@kk9a.com; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:29:54 -0400; You are lucky that works in your soil. It is much easier than pounding with a sledge hammer. The ground here is hard clay and shale and I cannot get a full ground rod in using a 65 pound jackhammer J; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00192.html (8,770 bytes)
52. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "Patrick Greenlee" <patrick_g@windstream.net>; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:49:59 -0500; If anyone is interested in buying a Harbor Freight (inexpensive) demo hammer don't buy the smallest one. They don't carry the one I have anymore but they have a larger one and a smaller one. I have s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00197.html (12,731 bytes)
53. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Richard Karlquist <richard@karlquist.com>; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:25:51 -0700; On 2013-10-14 11:49, Patrick Greenlee wrote: If anyone is interested in buying a Harbor Freight (inexpensive) demo hammer don't buy the smallest one. They don't carry the one I have anymore but they; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00198.html (8,516 bytes)
54. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "Patrick Greenlee" <patrick_g@windstream.net>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:29:24 -0500; Rick, it seems there is no free lunch. I read the specs on all three demo hammers you gave ID numbers for and although any of the three "might" work in some situations only a trial will tell. Compari; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00212.html (11,325 bytes)
55. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Alan Swinger <awswinger@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:15:08 -0400 (GMT-04:00); Equip rental companies, at least in Virginia, rent impact hammers and the fitting for Grd Rods. I have gone this route on two occasions and drove 36 8ft rods each time. Its less expensive than buying; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00214.html (13,025 bytes)
56. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:52:05 -0700; Ditto that, Why buy the Cow when you can get the milk for ! Rent OH yeah that,s another issue . But you get my drift. Wayne W3EA Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ ____; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00215.html (13,421 bytes)
57. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:20:11 -0700; I have a Bosch demo hammer (largest hand held) for driving rods and used for much concrete demo/drilling. I made a rod driver from the shank of a broken carbide drill by MIG welding on a sch 40 pipe; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00225.html (12,250 bytes)
58. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: Bryan Swadener <bswadener@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:49:45 -0700 (PDT); When I needed to drive ground rods, I just rented a demo hammer w/ ground rod driver. It was dirt cheap. IIRC, it was a 60# unit -- not at all handheld. It was just BARELY gnarly enough to drive on; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00235.html (9,228 bytes)
59. Re: [TowerTalk] Driving ground rods (score: 1): Author: "Gary Johnson N5BAA" <qltfnish@omniglobal.net>; Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:37:25 -0500; An alternative is to buy a Big Gnarly DeWalt Spline hammer drill like I have and a long 4 foot 1 3/16th diameter carbide bit, dig down as deep as you can (16-18 inches around here), drill the full le; /archives//html/Towertalk/2013-10/msg00236.html (10,752 bytes)

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