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tower building | 18 comments (18 topical, editorial)

Re: tower building (3.00 / 0) (#11)
by DanG on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 10:57:34 PM MST
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Ground plates and such can be buried but a true grounding rod is meant to be driven into place. You want it to see a cross section of undisturbed soil strata with the act of driving in forcing better contact & conductivity. It's okay to trench and cover conductors to the driven ground rods but not the rods themselves.

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It's 16+MB and pushes their products but the 'rolling sphere' strike hazard model and seeing what they do to protect pedestrians around buildings makes it worth at least scanning...

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Re: tower building (3.00 / 0) (#15)
by getterdone on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 06:41:25 PM MST
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DanG,,,i can't drive a ground rod [ rocky area ]. the web sight did give some ideas though. all i can do is dig down about 5' then drive as far as possible. maybe two or three of them. i've heard of people using a large hammer drill, i've only got a small one. thank's
If I were smart I'd be dangerous
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Re: tower building (3.00 / 0) (#17)
by jmk on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 07:08:37 PM MST
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You can bury coils of wire too.
jmk
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