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Subject: [TowerTalk] Installing a ground rod with a T-Post driver
From: Michael Germino <ad6aa@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-to: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
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FYI

On soil that's not too bad.  A steel T-Post driver works well.

Those steel fence post you see that are in a T shape are driven in sometimes 
with a T-Post driver (a pipe with a weighted end.)  Some of the drivers have 
handles and some of the simple homemade ones don't.

You slide the Driver over the fence post or ground rod and pound it in by 
repeatedly  raising and pounding down.  The last few feet will need a hammer, 
but the driver is a easy way to start a ground rod.

I know this wouldn't be for everyone and probably most know about it, but I 
figure this would be a good time to give out this information for those who 
don't know about it.


Mike
AD6AA
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