Here you are allowed to saw the ground rod off if you bury it to the point you can't pull it out by hand. Also, there is a tool that can also be used for metal fence posts. It's a heavy pipe, sealed on end and with handles. You put it over the top of the ground rod and slam it repeatedly until you can't go any further. Tony
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic There must be many places where you couldn't drive an 8 foot rod into the ground because of obstructions like boulders or even bed rock. Takes a pretty tall fellow to do that as well. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: NLG To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic The last 2 houses that I did a complete rewire job on (from the weather head through, including meter socket, breaker box, ect and these had to be inspected, the code was to have 2 ground rods 8 feet long no farther than 5 feet apart driven into the ground for grounding the system.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:54 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic Last summer I had the electric meter moved and they replaced my ground while they were at it. They ran a heavy Copper line across the basement and to the far side of the water meter. They also ran a heavy Copper line through the basement wall and attached to a ground spike. So I think current code, in Pittsburgh at least, is the two ground system, water line and ground spike. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
