Most farm & hardware stores carry a slide driver for driving the metal fence
posts... should work good for ground rods.
Northern Tool DOES have one... go to this link...
http://www.northerntool.com
When the home page come up, insert this item number in the "search" window &
click go...
251163
After it comes up, click on the picture for a larger view...
This is the exact same one I use for driving ground rods!!!!
That 'sucker' does the job!
Paul - K4BET
----- Original Message -----
From: "n1nk" <n1nk@cox.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:58 PM
Subject: [Towertalk] driving ground rods
I started driving the first of planned 6 8' ground rods in this afternoon.
ouch.
also stopped by the local hardware store to see if they had or could point
me to a sliding type drive device. they were unable to do so. I am looking
for simething like the tool sold for splitting wood which has a wedge at the
bottom, a shaft and a weight that one lifts and is slung downward to impart
force to the wedge. works great on wood, don't see why it would not work in
this application.
took a quick look through grainger and northerntool and did not find such a
tool.
where next? and thanks for all the tips and info related to my current
tower project.
jim
N1NK
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