[TowerTalk] Ground Rods

[Chuck Sudds]

At 05:51 PM 4/30/04 -0400, K8fu at aol.com wrote:

Wow!  I have always taken for granted the fact that ground rods go in 
easily in the corn fields of Western Iowa, and never gave it much 
thought.  The well here is 40ft down and I hit water at 6ft!  Guess the 
"Black Hole" of Zero-Land has some advantages ;)

Chuck  KØTVD

>One caveat that I guess was not picked up from earlier postings is that the
>Frog here lives on top of an extremely rocky ridge. When they came out to 
>drill
>the well the driller broke 3 bits before reaching150'. That's why I was
>curious as to whether there was any type of pwr equip available for 
>rental, and if
>I could drive a sharpened piece of angle iron as a guide hole.
>Froggy            K8FU