Several years ago I rented a hammer drill for some projects around the
house and discovered, much to my delight, that it made a terrific ground
rod driver.
Place the open chuck over the top of the rod, squeeze the trigger, and
watch your ground rod disappear into the earth. In our rock strewn
sandy loam soil, I had to be careful to get off the trigger in time. An
8' ground rod had only 6" exposed after less than 15 seconds of "pounding".
73, de Mike, K9UW
Amherst, WI
On 9/15/2011 4:21 PM, Richards wrote:
> Yeah... no kidding. Here in SW Mich, it is a compromise between
> those two extremes .
>
> We have layers of multiple soil types as you go down, so there is black
> top soil, then some clay, and maybe sand, not always in that order.
> You can get an 8-foot rod to go down, but it takes some serious effort.
> But you can get it in all the way - I use a four pound fence stake
> pounder and a lot of elbow grease, but they go in. It is the clay
> that holds us up.
>
> ------------------
> Happy Trails.
> ======================= Richards / K8JHR =========================
>
> On 9/15/2011 16:55, Dave Edwards wrote:
>> Wow....How things differ!
>> At my qth, you can take a long ground rod, and push the whole thing into the
>> ground...by hand!!!
> =
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