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Subject: [Towertalk] Power ground rod driver
From: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:39:50 -0500
>
>Here in northern New England the ground is full of rocks.  I've had 
>_great_ difficulty driving ground rods.  I need to drive more of 
>them.  What should I do?  An impact device _much_ more potent than a 
>manually operated 20-lb. "fence post driver" or hammer is required to bust 
>through this stuff.
>

You can rent hammer drills with the appropriate attachment that will do 
this job pretty well.  But if your rock is hard, which I suspect, you may 
need something that comes on a flatbed trailer.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower





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