ground rod question [RE-wrenches]

[Peter Duchon]

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Hi Windy,
Yep, a post-driver or whatever...that's what we tried first but with the
large opening and the relatively thin rod we met rock and we just bent the
hell out of the top foot or two of the rod receiving the numerous blows from
all of us taking turns...and so it just stopped going in further and got
more and more bent at the top.  Perhaps we could customize a post-driver and
put similar lengths of galvi pipe (that would reduce the opening so the rod
would just slip into it) in the driver body to keep the driving force on the
rod squarely straight down instead of at an angle to the vertical?   Just
one ill-placed hit and it starts to bend.

Oh yeah, have seen the tip of a ground rod return to us just as we were
finishing the driving on the other side of small sidewalk.  Just such a nice
radius U-turn a copper rod can make!  If it meets the right rock about two
to three feet in, and yep, you may see the tip come back right to ya!

Might try the roto-hammer method suggested by Todd first.

Thanks,
Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: Windy Dankoff [mailto:windydankoff at mac.com]
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 10:23 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: ground rod question [RE-wrenches]

Peter,

Try a fence-pounder -- someone will tell us what it's called -- a
weighted tube with a closed end and two handles ...

-- but if you think you got it hard -- I had a customer on a rocky
hill who drove an 8' rod in slowly ... slowly ... slowly over a
period of weeks. Then one day he walked past it and stumbled over
something. It was the "bottom" of the rod, poking up out of the
ground a couple feet away.

Windy


> Happy Memorial Day Wrenches,
> I hope everyone takes a moment to remember and why.
>
> Thanks to everyone for the discussion on this topic.  It's been
> helpful to
> me and I hope everyone else.  I love this list and all of you!
>
> I had one more, perhaps more basic question to ask.  Are there any
> unique
> methods or specialized equipment known to anyone, that will make
> the task of
> driving the ground rod in the ground easier or more successful?
>
> Thanks so much,
> Peter
> asappower.com


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