Re: driving copper pipe

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Original poster: "Dave Lewis by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hvdave-at-earthlink-dot-net>

I will also endorse the "hydralic drill" method.   I sunk about 9'-8" of
a 10ft 3/4 copper pipe this way with no trouble.  I sweated a hose
fitting on the end of the pipe, hooked up the hose, and turned the water
on with low flow.  A large flow was not required to quickly bury the
pipe.  It took about 5 minutes and I didn't break a sweat or smash any
fingers.   I'm also lucky that my soil is sandy with no big rocks and
such.

Dave Lewis

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz 
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>
 >
 >  >
 >  > Not sure what part of the country you're in but the copper-clad
 >  > (copper coating over steel rod - not solid copper) grouding rods
 >  > at my local Home Depot (SW TN) are 8 ft. long (not 6 ft.) and they
 >  > run about $9. You can get the plain galvanized grounding rods
 >  > (just a galvanized zinc coating as opposed to copper) cheaper
 >  > at the same but I would assume these would be much poorer
 >  > conductors of the RF currents. BTW, at Lowe's, the 8 ft. copper
 >  > clad grounding rods are about $11, so it pays to shop around :^)
 >  >
 >  > David Rieben
 >
 >         Have you ever tried driving an 8 foot (or even 6 foot) rod into 
hard,
 > gravelly soil?  I have and, at least around here, it's just about
 > impossible.  In soft and moist soil it should be easy, but not in this
 > part of Southern California.  I tried to drive 4 such 6 foot rods into
 > my back yard and didn't get any of them deeper than about 4 feet.  After
 > that fiasco I went to the copper pipe/water method and it worked fine.
 >
 > Ed