Good job but I had to turn off the audio. Holy crap it sounds like a cat 5 hurricane. haha

I used this method to put three rods around the base of a ham radio tower. Took about 20 minutes to get all three rods in place, and another 20 min to clamp on wiring to the base of the tower. Easy.

I'm going to try this today.

If you can use your hands to drive that earth rod in that's not a solid conection to earth

Bosch 540 !

I'd like to try this with just a standard drill, and grind cutting flutes on the end of the rod, along with water.

Didn’t believe it. I’m from Missouri. The “show me” state. Well-you showed me! And I thank you for it. Getting ready to install an electric fence...

This works! We have rocky ground and it took me 5 tries in different spots but it went down like a hot knife through butter. Thanks!

Lots of conflicting info out there, but this method was perfect for my California hard pan clay! Simple patience=results. Handy to have a big wrench to pull it when it got stuck a couple of times. Thanks.

Took me less time than watching this video with just a post driver and then for the last 1.f Ft I used with sledgehammer. And no sloppy mess

This 100% works. Did it this morning. I did pound the last 8” with a small sledge. Whole process took me 5 min.

Too bad there is so much wind noise. Maybe throw away the audio and dub on top of it. ;)

Great job. And could you please send Dillon to my house? Thanks.

Of the two jobs, the guy with the water certainly had the easier! Just a thought... maybe dig a foot deep hole first as it seems you can’t get the rod below the surface with this technique

Wish I could understand the narration. Looks like a cool technique.

Is the end of the rod square or pointed?

Fence post driver then use a sledge hammer for the last few feet

if you have a 16 year old back..it works great! LOL

This is s sort of "Fracking" This is horrible!! Now people's water will light on fire and the earth is going to explode.......

Super ideja

This is the way electricians have been driving ground rods ever since there were Ground rods.

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You guys were the answer to my prayers! I just succeeded putting an eight foot 5/8" copper-clad ground rod into the thick clay rocky soil of Kennesaw, Georgia (near Atlanta) using your method and I'm older than you guys (65)! I'm a ham radio operator and the two major obstacles I have to putting up a long-wire antenna is installing the ground rod and get the end of a rope up a 90 foot tree (that part is still pending). My wife told me "those guys are a lot younger than you and the thick clay soil will just be impossible to do by hand so you need to rent an electric jack hammer!". I proved I still have enough life left in me to accomplish some things without the help of sissy tools LOL! And I don't work out so it's not like I'm used to physical labor like this!! Some tips I learned: 1. Even though I was wearing gloves I found it impossible to grip the rod to pull it back up out of the ground once I was down about half-way so I had my wife get one of those thin rubber jar lid grip thingies out of the kitchen and was able to grip the rod with no problem (no gloves, just bare hands on rubber sheet). 2. The last 18 inches I hit something that prevented me from either pulling it back up or pushing it down any further so I grabbed my sledge hammer and a short scrap piece of 2 x 4 pine lumber. Placed the end of the 2 x 4 on top of the rod then started pounding on the other end of the 2 x 4. The wood kept the end of the rod like new but the wood took a beating! A hole was pounded about an inch deep in the wood and it started to split but not all the way before I got the rod in all the way to 3 inches above ground. Thanks again for your video! Now my next challenge, the 75 foot 14 gauge copper wire antenna into a 90 foot tree without climbing the tree (wouldn't attempt that even if I were 20 years old!) 73, WD4OWA

i used this method and i had it done in less than three minutes, it was so easy Thanks

I am from Missouri you would have to come here in the rocks and show me how well this works and we have been driving ground rod around here with jack hammers.. hammer drills and whatever device we can use besides sledge hammer.. T-POST drivers work pretty good but jack hammer is way better... I can almost with certainty say we will hit a rock every time.....

The audio is unusable. Appreciate the effort but if we can't hear it then its not must use. You could have easily recorded new audio at home over the video and it would be perfect.

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What kind of resistance does clay present?

This really works!!!!! Thanks

After watching multiple videos of people constructing water drill devices or using hammer drills with special bits, I decided to try this method first expecting it not to work. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was and it took only a couple of minutes. Naturally this might not work in rocky soil, but here in IL where I live it worked amazingly. Thank you for your video.

up & down, 19 don't push hard, 4 keep it wet, 15

I cant believe it work, but it did. It worked so well, I linked to my blog post about easy grounding rod installation. Let me know what ya think. offgridreview.com/?p=142

good procedure, but the audio beat my ears to cauliflower. Next time try using a microphone cover. Awfully hard on hearing impaired.

I'll admit that I haven't yet tried this, but here in southern New England where you can expect to find boulders the size of VW's just below the surface, I think you'll be frustrated in your efforts more often than not.

Nice - thanks !!

nice video .. great way to get a ground rod down , will keep this in mind ! thanks

Freaking Works! Had to put up a new mast for my antennae and drove the ground just like this. Live where there are few rocks, but a significant hardpan.

That is an awesome method, however i drive around twenty rods a week so having a generator and a hammer drill with a rod driver attachment is the only way it is going to get done.

That was amazing. That is definitely getting filed back in the filing cabinet in the head. That will come in handy one day.

This really works. I put in an eight foot rod into Colorado clay in under ten minutes. I used a garden hose dribbling water at the base.

This saved my sanity. Thanks.

The rod in conjunction with the water creates hydraulic pressure which forces the earth away from the rod in small increments.

Very nice

In the beginning, I thought there was no way he was going to get that rod all the way in the ground. Amazing.

This method is a lifesaver. I installed three 6' grounding rods in about five minutes using this method. Rarely does anything work as advertised on the internet. This does.

What a neat team to watch. Those side passes through the cones were so beautiful.

Sounds good....except for rocks. I have an old Buchanan Ground rod driver, works well in any dirt, but not rocky soil. Electric utility has giant jackhammers and trailer mounted compressors, so no trouble for them. I need a solution, as Inspectors don't care about my problems.

Here is a funny thought, forget the video part... just listen to the audio part... You'll crack up with a buddy... hahahha

I just buried my two rods using this method, thank you Ralph Moses for posting it, it was extremely helpful. The only problem I found was that at no time you can pull the rod out of the hole or else you will make your job unnecessarily harder and in some terrains impossible without digging a new hole. The problem is that the rod penetrates by compressing the earth around it as you jerk it, if you pull it out and pour water in it, it may drag soil into the hole and now when you place the rod back in it will be extremely harder to compress this new matter. I made that mistake with my first rod and I had to finish with a sledgehammer, it was a very tough job. In my second rod I already learnt my lesson and fished it in less than 5 minutes using very little water. Just continue jerking the rod without pulling it out too much.