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Re: [TowerTalk] Getting ground rods OUT

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Getting ground rods OUT
From: Dino Darling <k6rix@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:18:33 -0700
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Yep, just used the Hi-Lift jack to remove an old Tri-Ex MW-50 off of the 
studs.  This same arrangement is used to remove posts of all sizes...

http://www.hi-lift.com/products/index.htm

At 04:55 PM 06/12/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>One way some folks I knew removed ground rods was to use a piece of
>heavy chain, a car jack (the old fashioned bumper jack, not one of those
>scissors ones that comes on many cars now, and a good pair of Vise Grips.
>
>Slip one link of the chain over the ground rod, clamp the vise grips at
>the lowest point on the exposed section of rod above the chain, and hook
>the remainder to the the jack.  Just jack the thing out of the ground
>and keep lowering the chain and Vise Grips until the rod is entirely out
>of the ground.  Yes it does work.

Dino...k6rix@earthlink.net 


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