Quote Originally Posted by C-Bag View Post
They won't? That's brilliant......but not legal or up to spec or? The peanut gallery's gotta know Frank!
it wouldn't exactly be homemade per-say unless you counted the sacrificial pipe
I've used the smaller rivet buster sized percussion hammers to drive grounding rods in the ground for years and the larger pneumatic hammers to drive pipes in the ground for fence posts, When I was building boat docks and break waters I used both large drop hammers that I made as well as hydraulic hammers to drive pilings in the ground.
Another way the man could drive his grounding rods would be to build a 15 ft tall tripod derrick with a top sheave a slide hammer to travel up and down 2 of the legs with a series of stabilizing arms that would hold the rods vertical these could be placed every couple of feet up the 2 legs that the drop hammer traveled on and be removed as the rod was driven and the hammer came near them. the hammer could be raised by as rope with a couple wraps around a spinning capstan winch Just tug on the lose end of the rope to lift the hammer and let it go slack for the hammer to fall Not terribly expensive to build but a little labor intensive to build for only a few rods
The tripod derrick idea would also work very well to assist in holding the small electric percussion hammer as well