[TVARC] Ground Rod

[John Spoonhower]

The villages "soil" is typically sand and like driving a stake into butter.
A small sledge hammer is all I needed. Took me all of 1 minute to drive in
an 8 foot rod..

John, nx2i

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 9:51 AM Ed Krome <e.krome at comcast.net> wrote:

> You might try renting a fence post driver. This is a 2’ steel pipe with
> handles and a heavy load in one end. Try Home Depot.
> BTW standing on a ladder pounding a ground rod in with a sledge hammer is
> probably not the best idea🤪
>
> Ed Krome K9EK
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 1, 2019, at 10:22 PM, K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I’m finally getting around to installing a ground rod.  I know, I know,
> should have done it long ago.  But now that my touch faucet starts running
> when I run HP, I’m gonna have to do something about it.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I get that thing eight feet
> into the ground?  I tried a power washer but it will only go so far.  Only
> using a hammer to pound it in doesn’t cut it.  I suppose a big sledgehammer
> might do the trick?  But I’m thinking maybe someone has come up some
> brilliant idea for getting that rod in the ground easily, before I go out
> and buy one and then start pounding away.
>
>
>
> 73, Pete, K2PS.
>
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