You can usually rent the demo hammer at your local tool rental company. Some
Home Depots even have tool rental now.
-Mike, KE6MRE
> On Mar 26, 2025, at 14:07, Jack Brindle via TowerTalk
> <towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> Home Depot sells one made my Milwaukee for both the SDS-Plus and SDS-Max.
> Depending on your soil type and condition, it is a life-saver. As I have told
> others, here in SW Louisiana, I get down about three feet and stop with a
> fence pounder. The hammer drill keeps going, just works a little harder until
> it gets through that layer. It really makes installing ground rods fun.
>
> The hammer drill is one of “those” tools that you start looking for things to
> do with it. It does fairly large holes incredibly well!
>
> 73,
> Jack, W6FB
>
>
>> On Mar 26, 2025, at 2:29 PM, Mike Fatchett W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have had really good luck with a post pounder for T posts and then turning
>> it upside down to get it to ground level. We have mostly sandy soil with
>> some clay. Hammer drill seems like the way to go. I have one but not the
>> attachment. I guess I should look for one.
>>
>> W0MU
>>
>>> On 3/26/2025 12:19 PM, William Greaves via TowerTalk wrote:
>>> Agree that bigger is quicker. I've used three different sized rotary
>>> hammers into clay soil with about 45 min for the smallest hammer to 5-7 min
>>> for the largest. Largest size might be available for rent locally and will
>>> be a definite time-saver.Bill K9GN
>>> -------- Original message --------From: Jack Brindle via TowerTalk
>>> <towertalk@contesting.com> Date: 3/26/25 11:37 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Tim
>>> Vandagriff <wa5yom@swbell.net> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com Subject: Re:
>>> [TowerTalk] Install ground rod SDS hammer drill with the ground rod bit.
>>> Either Plus or Max version of the drill will work. After I got an SDS-Plus,
>>> the time for installing ground rods went from an appreciable portionof an
>>> hour to just a few minutes.73,Jack, W6FB> On Mar 26, 2025, at 11:12 AM, Tim
>>> Vandagriff <wa5yom@swbell.net> wrote:> > Any suggestions on the best ground
>>> rod installation tool?Thanks TimWa5yom> > > Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for
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