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Re: [TowerTalk] "Sluggo" Ground Rod driver

To: Tower Talk <towertalk@contesting.com>, WA6RKN <WA6RKN@ARRL.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "Sluggo" Ground Rod driver
From: Tom Anderson <andersonww5l@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-to: andersonww5l@sbcglobal.net
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:02:26 -0700 (PDT)
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Harbor Freidht frequently has a 1 inch rotary drill/driver on sale for about 
$69 or so.  I hear those also work pretty well.

Tom, WW5L


PS:  the reference earlier was strictly an FYI on something I had found in 
Electrical Products News magazine.


--- On Thu, 10/16/08, WA6RKN <WA6RKN@ARRL.net> wrote:

> From: WA6RKN <WA6RKN@ARRL.net>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "Sluggo" Ground Rod driver
> To: "Tower Talk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:26 PM
> I use my 1" rotary impact drill.  I sharpen the end of
> the ground rod on my 
> grinder, then chuck it up and off I go!  8 feet in less
> than a minute.  And 
> here in Reno, we are 80% rocks...BIG rocks, and the rest is
> dirt.
> 
> I wonder how it would work in the caliche of Tucson??  I
> know that stuff is 
> murder...grew up there...my step-dad built our house there
> back in the early 
> 50's...wanted to put in some trees, I kid you not, he
> had to dynamite the 
> holes in the ground.
> 
> Joe Wolfe
> WA6RKN
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Morris" <robrk@nidhog.net>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "Sluggo" Ground Rod
> driver
> 
> 
> > Find the largest sledge hammer you can pick up. Knock
> out the wooden
> > handle, weld in place  3 or 4 feet of 1' pipe. On
> ground rod day, slide
> > pipe over rod, stand vertical,in the 1 foot hole you
> dug, push up on
> > pipe, then let go.
> > Repeat until rod is 2 feet tall. Tap in with hammer
> end. No ladders,
> > busted fingers or toes.
> 
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