Re: driving copper pipe

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Original poster: "Mark Broker by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org>

I would imagine that a "hydraulic drill" would tend to flush the soil away 
from the rod, leaving pebbles and other such debris as the main contact to 
the soil.  Rocks don't generally make a good conductor....

If the soil isn't too rocky, just banging the end of a hard copper pipe 
with a hammer may work, at least enough to get a couple feet into the ground.

YMMV

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group


On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:36:06 -0600, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

>Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
>A common method of getting pipe into hard ground is to attach a nipple
>to the top of the pipe and feed water through it, thereby turning it in
>a sort of hydraulic drill.  Has worked well for me but doesn't help bore
>its way through the kind of rocks we have in the soil around my place.
>
>Ed
>