Hey Robert, I'm wondering about this ground rod thing. Does it have to go into the ground vertically? Or, can it be placed horizontally?
Contact me at: Donnie Parrett 1956 Asa Flat Road Annville, KY 40402 Home # 606-364-3321 Cell # 606-438-2557 Church # 606-364-PRAY Skype Name: Donnie1261 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of robert moore Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:56 PM To: [email protected] 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! Groups Links
