[TowerTalk] [TowetTalk] Station and tower grounding

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don't I wish (the video)! Doing 18 of them takes a looong time. The hammer 
that I had was bigger than that one but still took 5 minutes to go 1/2"...

Gary



-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Thorne
Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2016 12:22 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [TowetTalk] Station and tower grounding

Hammer Drill Method:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dNdzeOsy8o&t=35s

Rich - N5ZC

On 12/3/2016 11:14 AM, Bryan Swadener via TowerTalk wrote:
> You don't need the drilling action. You need the hammer action,
> and LOTS of it. Ground rods are only pointed on the bottom end,
> and drilling action gives zero benefit.
> When I needed to drive several 10' rods in/through Pacific NW
> glacial till, I rented a 60# demolition (aka "jack") hammer.
> Most rods went right in, in seconds. A couple took a little longer.
> One rod took about 5 minutes to bust through some kind of gnarly
> rock.
>
> vy 73,
> Bryan WA7PRC
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>
> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 10:40:29 -0600
> From: Richard Thorne
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Station and tower grounding
>
> Go rent a hammer drill and purchase a ground rod adapter for installing
> ground rods.
>
> Makes quick work of installing an 8' ground rod.
>
> I had 5 ground rods installed in less than 30 minutes.  We have clay and
> cliche here in the Amarillo panhandle.
>
> Rich - N5ZC
>
> On 12/3/2016 10:07 AM, Jeff Draughn wrote:
>> I live in Kansas in an area that has some of the worst clay that I have
>> ever had to deal with.
>> It's sticky gooey terrible stuff, sticks to everything like epoxy!
>> Trying to drive eight-foot ground rods's in the ground is near 
>> impossible,
>> I think the stickiness just builds to a point where it's near impossible
>> even using a 10 pound sledge.
>>
>> So my question is would several 4 foot rods placed approximately 4 feet
>> apart be satisfactory?
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts and inputs.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jeff
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