[Towertalk] driving ground rods

[Paul McInnish - K4BET]

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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