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Re: [IRCA] Ground Resistance
A few years ago I tried the method described and illustrated on this Web
page:
http://www.n4lcd.com/groundrod/
The specialized hammering tool works excellently for driving ground rods.
73,
Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA USA
www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com
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> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:49:26 -0400
> From: Rick Kunath <k9ao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Have you tried soldering a male garden hose fitting to the top of the
> pipe and feeding a hose to it? The water running from the pipe bottom
> makes getting the pipe in a lot easier. It probably wouldn't help in
> really rocky soil, but it does in soils with small rocks.
>
> With a little up and down and side to side motion, you can work the rod
> right into the ground. Then the ground settles in around it after the
> water is turned off.
>
> Certainly nor something that would be workable in winter though. But
> frozen soil is hard to deal with even with a fence post driver and
> conical tip on a pipe then.
>
> Rick Kunath, k9ao
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