Re: driving copper pipe

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Mark Broker by way of Terry Fritz 
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org>
 >
 > I would imagine that a "hydraulic drill" would tend to flush the soil away
 > from the rod, leaving pebbles and other such debris as the main contact to
 > the soil.  Rocks don't generally make a good conductor....
 >
 > If the soil isn't too rocky, just banging the end of a hard copper pipe
 > with a hammer may work, at least enough to get a couple feet into the 
ground.
 >
 > YMMV
 >
 > Mark Broker
 > Chief Engineer, The Geek Group

	I originally had similar thoughts.  However, I don't know where the
"flushed" soil would go, since nothing much comes out of the hole and
the soil surrounding the rod is moistened, at least for a while.

Ed