[TowerTalk] Copper ground rod driver

[Jim Lux]

On 5/25/11 6:02 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> You're lucky.  I got no where trying to install ground rods with a sledge
> hammer in my shale and clay soil.  I used a large electric jack hammer to
> install them and even with this machine I was only partially successful.
>
Just such situations is what prompted Herb Ufer to invent the concrete 
encased grounding electrode.  You have to dig the foundation anyway, why 
not use it for your ground.