Robert, I have one solution to removing those steel posts. Take a vice grip and lock it onto the post near the ground. Now, get your handy large crow bar and place something solid such as a brick or whatever on the ground close to the post. Use the brick or whatever as the fulcrum and lever the post out using the vice grip to pull up the post. You are correct, them blamed things are a witch to try to just horse up. (LOL) You could call them a hernia special or a ball buster. (LOL) Cy, the Ancient Okie....
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of robert moore Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] tool for pounding posts. Tony This tool you are talking about is called a post hole driver. And so here we go again with odd terms. I don't know why it is called a post hole driver you are not driving a hole you are driving a post but any way that is what I have always heard them called. I want to get me one next year. I use steel posts, the kind they use for electric fencing, in my garden. For me it seems to work out just fine. I run electric fence wire along the rows Now I just need to find or design a post puller. Those things can some times be a bear to pull out but it does provide good strength building. Robert -----Original Message----- From: HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:13 PM To: HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic 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: HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> [mailto: HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> ] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:20 PM To: HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> 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 HYPERLINK "mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%-40puc.net> Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: NLG To: HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> 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: HYPERLINK "mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:blindhandym-an%40yahoogroups-.com> 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. 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