[TowerTalk] Removing ground rods

[J Chaloupka]

 Chuck up the rod in the same hammer drill used for installation.  Run it briefly as though going deeper in.  That loosens the holding power of corrosion etc.  Next, use a T post puller or clamp visegrips near top of rod, wrap a piece of chain around the rod under the visegrips and loop the other end around a pipe, bar, 2x4 as a lever and pull it out with a lever movement.If you have to, move the visegrips to a new position lower down on the rod and keep going until the rod is out.JIM
    On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 10:44:47 AM EDT, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:  
 
 Anyone got an innovative way of getting 8-foot ground rods out of the 
ground? I'm taking down my 160M RX and TX setups for the summer and have 
one stubborn one.  I've tried the visegrips and even tried to use my car 
jack to press against the visegrips, but the ground is too soft and 
uneven for that to work.

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73, Pete N4ZR
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