[PCR-1000] grounding

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:06:00 -0500

My comments are inline.

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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mikea
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PCR-1000] grounding

It occurs to me that having the hose in the hole before you start
filling it with kitty litter may be a useful solution to the problem
of getting the water all the way to the bottom. It would be nice
to have it more-or-less centered if the hole is big, but that just
requires someone to hold the hose until the end is fixed in place by
the first bag or so, and then to hold the hose vertical while the
remaining litter is poured in.

This method is not recommended. Most probably you will get TOO much
water by the end of it all. Jabbing a rod into a mix to distribute the
water is a common construction procedure. Do not  re invent the wheel on
this one. There is no real advantage to.
Jabbing the rod into all this is no big deal Mike. TOO much water will
be detrimental to all this. 

If you're in northern Ontario, it's not really a matter of how deep
the frost level is, so much as how deep a hole you have to blast
through the rock. For those not in the know, there's an awful lot of
Canadian Shield up there, and not as much vegetation as we're used to,
down here in Oklahoma and the other Far-Southern Provinces. I learned
this when I got a cottage in central Ontario, not far from Midland, on
the eastern shore of Lake Huron.

I live by a lake, just next to Algonquin Park. You should know where
that is then.
The way we get around this is to rent a rod pounder at the same place as
you rent the post hole digger. As you pound this device on the top of
the rod and if you hit a rock, 2 things will happen. You will either
split the rock or the rod will actually bend around the rock if it is a
large one. Been there, done it too many times. As You said, I live in
Muskoka, the land of 30,000 lakes and the Canadian shield.  ROCK ROCK
!!!

Go to the following site:

	www.alsimcoe.com

I do Nature & Wildlife Photography in my retirement years. Look for the
:Misty Lake" picture. That is the lake I live on. I have changed the
name of the lake to protect the innocent.  ME !!!!    The Mosse picture
is taken in Algonquin Park.

AL
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Mike Andrews
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Tired old sysadmin since 1964
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