[TowerTalk] Getting ground rods OUT

[Gene Smar]

Jim:

     I removed a ground rod by bolting a ground clamp near the top and
wrapping a chain of some heft around it.  Then I used a ratchet bumper jack
(not a scissors jack) to pull on the chain.  As I recall it came out pretty
easily.

       But don't spend too much energy on this - if you can't budge it in
ten minutes, give up and cut off the top.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis at comcast.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 1:03 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Getting ground rods OUT


>
> As we work on relocation, I have to strike the last vestiges
> of my antenna system.  There are two 8' ground rods, each sticking
> out by something less than a foot.
>
> I'd just pound 'em further in, but they won't budge.  Similarly,
> I can't get enough purchase on them to manually extract them.
> Possibly a tripod & come-along would help...if I could rig some
> sort of chinese finger puzzle linkage.
>
> any thoughts?
>
>
> n2ea
> jimjarvis at ieee.org
>
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