[TowerTalk] Removing ground rods

[Brian Amos]

I’ve been doing this for years for work applications. I use vice grips or a
pipe wrench, depending on rod thickness, and a hydraulic automotive jack
sitting on an 8’ long 2x6. Sometimes using 2 pipe wrenches, one in each
hand is enough. If it’s damp clay and really grabs, sometimes I need 2 jack
setups and 2 pipe wrenches.

Brian KF7OVD

On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 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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