Ground Rod Hammer Drill

The drilling action of a hammer drill or rotary hammer buys you nothing.

Ground rod hammer drill. You need to drive your rod all the way into the ground. The downside is 800 00. All except the last can be picked up with one hand. I have a makita demolition hammer with a ground rod driver attachment.

Driving a ground rod into the ground can take a long time and can. It did not have any bits to do this. My average time is less. The dewalt ground rod driver sds max shank features fully hardened steel body for durability.

From then on you can drill an eight foot hole in about a minute to two minutes. August 15 2016 on rod 11 the driving head just snapped off and i came very close to impaling myself on that ground rod since i was over it. This is compatible with sds max demolition hammers and rotary hammers with chipping function. The demo hammer almost always works.

It is ideal for installing ground rods parking bumper stakes. It takes longer to roll out the cord and set up the hammer than it takes to drive the rod. It only takes a minute of two to get the hang of it. The rod just drops right out of site with water gushing into the air.

The electrical code states that it must have 8 feet 2 4 m of contact with the ground so you need to drive it all the way down. I could have never completed this job without the bosch rh432vcq 1 1 4 inch sds plus rotary. The hammer drill could not be set to hammer only so it tried to spin the rod some. I m sure the drill couldn t take much of that abuse but it was over 90 degrees at the time.

Pull the drill out and just drop the ground rod in. We just chucked up the rod like a bit set the drill to hammer only and drove it home. Using your hammer drill or driving tool gradually drive the rod vertically into the ground. At the electrician i worked for we had a spline drive rotary hammer drill that we used to drive ground rods.

Note that because it s just a smooth pointed rod a ground rod doesn t need to be rotated. I have had this for about for over a year using it with my dewalt sds max hammer drill driving in 5 8 ground rods. The drill is the way to go. The hammer weighs around 40lbs and i can drive a ground rod through rock in one minute.

When driving ground rods i ve gotten lucky with one of the lighter duty tools. I drove in 5 rods in 2015 and in august 2016 was putting in 14 more. As someone who has sunk them both manually and with the hammer drill. Forcing the drill can plug the end or in some cases bend the conduit.

Milwaukie hammer drill and a hole saw without a pilot bit.