This always works for me...
This always works for me...
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
With the California hard pan, it's the only way you get any of it in the ground!Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
This always works for me...
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
You got that right. The soil around here is about 2 feet (that's .6 m to you, Cor) of hard adobe clay atop a strata of boulders that vary from a couple of inches to a couple of feet across. I gave up on ground rods and ground to a cold water pipe even though it's not as good.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I use one of these with a bit made just for driving ground rods.... http://www.milwaukeetool.com/Catalog...24_5340-21.jpg
Edit: Damn that was sure a wimpy picture but you get the idea.... (It's a demolition/hammer drill....)
Last edited by WA4TM; 09-01-2010 at 06:22 PM.
Out here, after a few inches of clay, you hit caliche for about a foot or so. It's just a little harder than reinforced concrete. I, too, use a jack hammer for digging and for putting ground rods and fence T posts in the ground. I have bent many T posts trying to drive them in to this stuff. In fact, this is the 2nd one I've owned, and it is getting ready to go south, also. If I didn't have one of these things, I'd have to move or quit digging.
Where in Lemon Grove are you? Years ago ('78ish) my oldest brother and I had stacked 5L monobanders @ 65' just off 94...Tooley St. Damn near got DXCC as a Novice with that setup. Turned it all with a Ham M and a home brew brake delay.
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
I'm on all the way over on the other end of town from Tooley St., about 2 blocks east of Lemon Grove Blvd. If you remember where Lemon Grove Middle School is, I'm just up the street from there.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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