electrical math - ground rods

I made a spade bit I used to aerate some really hard clay. It was about 4 ft long. A longer one could be easily made.. I drilled holes in the clay about a ft deep where grass would not grow and filled the holes with potting soil and planted grass seed.. It took about 2 or 3 years but the grass finally broke up the clay.

Jimmie

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JIMMIE
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Yoda!

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Stormin Mormon

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Stormin Mormon

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Stormin Mormon

No worries, it was more accurate anyway.

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Stormin Mormon

That sounds like a LOT of work. Did you use a grinder, to make a point, on the end of the rod?

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Stormin Mormon

Didn't need to make a point, the ground rod came with one.

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EXT

Wowsers. The worst one I did took me maybe an hour or so. It was in an old fenceline between two fields. I was convinced someone must've buried an old hedge post right where I was driving the ground rod. The last half of the 10' rod went pretty slow.

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Dean Hoffman

the 6 i've put in in the last 3 years went in with a sledge. Two of them were in fresh backfill, and i pushed them in with my own weight.

steve

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Steve Barker

You might want to check your current electrical code. Nebraska requires the concrete encased grounding conductors. Basically, it's 20 feet or more of 1/2" rebar. I think it's in the NEC but my book is way.............. over there.

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Dean Hoffman

A pneumatic chipping hammer hooked to a big Ingersoll Rand towed compressor.

TDD

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The Daring Dufas

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