what method --driving ground rods?

[480sparky]

I got this in an email today

I would just use the bucket.

 

[220/221]

I got $5 that says if 7.5' of the rod is indeed in the ground the GRVAD is used more often than not......

 

[peter d]

I was driving a ground rod in a water meter pit when it occurred to me that the terra cotta sewer line ran below as well. I stopped driving the rod and I broke out the GRVAD.

 

[hurk27]

I there is anything I have learned when driving ground rods, is this! if when driving a ground rod and it bounces back up a couple inches STOP!!!!!!

Gas line

 

[480sparky]

I there is anything I have learned when driving ground rods, is this! if when driving a ground rod and it bounces back up a couple inches STOP!!!!!!

Gas line

This means you didn't call 811.

 

[hurk27]

This means you didn't call 811.

This was my helper on this pedestal, I did the next one, out in the middle of a field for street lighting, wasn't much around, but the utility stubs which were pieces of 2" gas pipe they use to cover there stub wires from the transformers, which after I drove the rod in had gas flowing out of them

Stubs like these

 

[hurk27]

Gas line wasn't the only thing hit on this job, note telephone cable wraped around auger in next photo

And water coming out of a freshly aurgered hole is not a good sign either lol:

Locates were remove by the lanscapers, and the water line was not suposed to be there acording to the prints

 

[daleuger]

This was my helper on this pedestal, I did the next one, out in the middle of a field for street lighting, wasn't much around, but the utility stubs which were pieces of 2" gas pipe they use to cover there stub wires from the transformers, which after I drove the rod in had gas flowing out of them

Stubs like these

Can't help but notice the steel toes and long pants.

 

[boltneck]

Can't help but notice the steel toes and long pants.

are those shorts or highwaters?