Ground rod pounder

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Is anyone successfully pounding ground rods with a battery operated device?

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Yes but not in basalt. That needs a cord. We use a m18 sdsmax and a 12ah and it goes good but I've used the 80 buck harbor freight corded sds max for years before and it works good too. When I started I was handed a sledge and told to git er done and if I had a rock it was an hour long job.
 
letgomywago said:
Yes but not in basalt. That needs a cord. We use a m18 sdsmax and a 12ah and it goes good but I've used the 80 buck harbor freight corded sds max for years before and it works good too. When I started I was handed a sledge and told to git er done and if I had a rock it was an hour long job.
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I still bust out the sledge and Sluggo-Ox when the roto can't make any more progress.

Rob G, Seattle
 
LarryFine said:
Same here, except it was a full 10' stick of 3/4" rigid conduit. A bit more friction than a rod.
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how much shorter than 10ft was it by time your were done pounding on it.

Driven quite a few with the sds-plus successfully, don't like to go back to hand driving.
 
I can usually (about 90% of the time) drive ground rods with my Milwaukee 18V SDS Max Rotary Hammer. Every once in a while I need to drag out the Bosch corded SDS Max; it hits harder than the battery unit.

Mark
 
OK good to know. We have pretty hard and often rocky ground. I have had pretty good success with a corded dewaltt SDS Max. Sounds like the battery operated can do it just not quite as well. Before that I was using a small corded jackhammer. Never failed, but heavy to lug up a ladder to get started. I have no interest in pounding by hand anymore unless I know it's mostly sand.
 
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