Most of the grounding rods I have seen are copper plated steel. If you hit a small rock it will break it or push it out of the way or make a curve around it. A bolder will bring you to a dead stop. When that happens, cut it off just above the ground, sharpen the remaining piece, and drive it in a few feet away from the first one.
Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:55 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Grounding Follow-UP > Ed > First of all are you in a part of the country where the ground is not > frozen? > If so one thought that I would have is to get a post hole digger. This > might > not be a task for the week at heart and you will not be able to dig 8 feet > down but it will give you a start. Just in case you don't know, and even > if > you do know, there may be a few on the list that might not know what a > post > hole digger looks like It has 2 wooden handles and 2 curved scoops on the > business end and it is hinged just above the scoops. It works the opposite > of a plyers or a sizzers. You slam it down into the ground and pull the > handles apart and pull it and the dirt up and repeat the prosses until the > job is finished or your hands are blistered beyond recognition. Which ever > comes first. > Now another idea is some type of auger. If any one on the list knows if > any > one makes a hand crank auger that would be useful for this type of job. > > One last thing that I just thought of is a gaget that we had when I was > young It is a post hole digger but this one you turn it with a t handle > and > pull it up and knock out the dirt. You can get extentions with this so you > can go down as far as you need. I don't know if they still make them but > the > people to ask are people that do water table testing. We used to dig holes > this way and when we hit water we would take a measurement of the depth of > the hole to see how far down the water table was. This is probably more > info > than you need but there you have it. Havfe fun. Can you dig it? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Edward Przybylek > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 9:14 PM > To: BlindHandyMan > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Grounding Follow-UP > > Hi all, > > After all your replies, I decided to ground my new generator. Better safe > then sorry. When the manual said that not grounding the generator could > pose the threat of electricution, it made me decide it was the best course > of action. I went to Home Depot to purchase the necessary supplies. I > picked up a lenght of 10 gauge stranded copper wire and then went to > search > for the copper grounding rod. The thing you guys forgot to mention is that > the freaking rod is 8 feet long. I asked the associate how much of the rod > I should cut off the 8 foot length to pound into the ground. That's when > he > said "All 8 feet." My first response was "Are you for real!" My soil is 5% > dirt and 95% rock. Getting 8 feet of anything that deep in my yard is > going > to be a task meant for the Gods and not a mere mortal like myself. The > last > time I pounded any kind of rod into my yard was a galvanized pipe to > support > a newly planted evergreen to help it make it through the winter. It went > down approximately 3 feet and stopped dead. I mushroomed the top of the > pipe with a four pound mallet but the pipe went no further. Now you expect > me to pound an 8 foot copper rod into the ground! Yeah, right. What I'm > anticipating is a very bent rod and a flurry of filthy words that till > make > the ladies in the neighbor hood blush wildly and hurry their children > indoors. From now on, gentlemen, make sure you mention the finer points of > a task before making recommendations. <big smile> Let you know how it > goes. > > Take care, > Ed > > > [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! 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