[TowerTalk] Driving ground rods

[Wayne Kline]

Gary many of the big names hammer drills have the ground rod adaptor. The trick is to find the rental co who has them both.  I use to use a home brew dual handled piece of 2" od 1/2" wall X 36".  But scraped that when I found about the Hammer drill routine .
 I put in 26 8' roofs in a four hour rental  So I second the use of this tool.

Wayne W3EA 
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On Oct 13, 2013, at 6:14 PM, "Gary K9GS" <garyk9gs at wi.rr.com> wrote:

> While on the topic of ground rods.
> 
> Today I had to drive some 5/8 X 8 foot ground rods.  I live on top of a ridge that was part of the glacial push South into Southern Wisconsin.  Think sandy rocky soil with many rocks about fist sized plus hard clay.  25 years ago I had to dig a hole for a mailbox post and it took me all day with a post hole digger.
> 
> Anyway, to drive these ground rods I rented a demolition hammer from Home Depot.  Think small electric jack hammer that looks like a big drill.  Made by Makita.  In place of the chisel that is usually used, they had a bit made for driving ground rods.  Basically a hollow sleeve that fits over the end of the ground rod.
> 
> Used an 8 ft stepladder and a friend to help.  The ground rods went in like a hot knife through butter.  Each one took less than 5 minutes and no pounding with a sledge hammer, water pipes, post driver, etc.  Truly amazingly fast.  The best money I've ever spent.
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> 73,
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> Gary K9GS
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