[TowerTalk] Sinking ground rods

[Dale Martin]

> Another way is to use a fence post driver available at many 
> Lowe's and Home Depot store or nearly any farm and ranch 
> supply store.  It is a 2-3 foot piece of pipe sealed on one 
> end with handles on the side.  

Before I found the one-gallon-of-water-method, I took an empty one-gallon
paint can, a two-and-a-half foot length of water pipe, a water pipe tee and
some concrete.  I attached the tee to the pipe, suspended it with string in
the can so the tee was about 3 inches above the can bottom, poured in the
concrete, and let it set up.  It made a nice homemade pile-driver for ground
rods in the gumbo that is the Texas Coastal Prairie soil.    

73,
Dale, kg5u