"Lenny" wrote in message
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Where's the best place to purchase a grounding rod?
Any secrets to installing it?
Thanks all.
Lenny

I've used ones purchased at the Home Depot with
success. If you don't have a sledge hammer, it can
get pretty darn tedious hammering it into clay (like
I've got locally). An electrician friend had the hammer
end welded to two sections of pipe, so that all he
had to do was fit the pipe over the ground rod and
basically let gravity do the work for him as needed.

--Mike L.

The Bell South woman next door to me bought a copper grounding rod at a
Home Depot store.I think the rod is about eight feet long and it has a
pointed end on one end of the rod to make it easier to drive it into the
ground.I got my sledge hammer and she and I took turns driving that rod
into the ground.We have some clay in our soil too.Durn clay,when it gets
wet,it expands and when it gets dry,it shrinks.These old houses in my
neighborhood shift around like a boat on the water.I can stand in my
front yard and line up the front of the houses on my side of the street
and it is easy to see the houses have long since been out of plumb.
cuhulin