[TowerTalk] Installing Ground Rods

[Keith Dutson]

Down here along the Gulf Coast just wait for a good long rain to get the
ground soaking wet.  I installed fencing T-posts by hand down to 3 feet
depth without any pounding.

If you cannot wait and don't have a hose long enough to get out to the site,
make a post driver out of 2.5 foot long 3-inch pipe with 1/4 inch (or
thicker) steel plate welded to one end.  Works better than slinging a sledge
hammer from up on a ladder.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave NØRQ
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:20 AM
To: K8RI on Tower Talk; TOWERTALK at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Installing Ground Rods

Here in the Texas clay soils, installing a ground rod is pretty easy, if you
have water handy.  Simply put the hose on trickle, lay it right where the
ground rod is to go, and start stabbing the ground with the rod--
up/down/up/down -- each time, the rod will go in farther, and the water
fills the hole.  The last few feet have to be hammered, but it is very easy.
--
Dave NØRQ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K8RI on Tower Talk" <k8ri-tower at charter.net>
>  It'd be an interesting experiment.  Again, as virtually any other method,

> wet soil makes the installation easier.

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