Well the grounding rod does not have to be one eight foot solid piece. You need eight feet total so two four foot sections are ok. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Przybylek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BlindHandyMan" <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:13 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Grounding Follow-UP
Hi all, After all your replies, I decided to ground my new generator. Better safe then sorry. When the manual said that not grounding the generator could pose the threat of electricution, it made me decide it was the best course of action. I went to Home Depot to purchase the necessary supplies. I picked up a lenght of 10 gauge stranded copper wire and then went to search for the copper grounding rod. The thing you guys forgot to mention is that the freaking rod is 8 feet long. I asked the associate how much of the rod I should cut off the 8 foot length to pound into the ground. That's when he said "All 8 feet." My first response was "Are you for real!" My soil is 5% dirt and 95% rock. Getting 8 feet of anything that deep in my yard is going to be a task meant for the Gods and not a mere mortal like myself. The last time I pounded any kind of rod into my yard was a galvanized pipe to support a newly planted evergreen to help it make it through the winter. It went down approximately 3 feet and stopped dead. I mushroomed the top of the pipe with a four pound mallet but the pipe went no further. Now you expect me to pound an 8 foot copper rod into the ground! Yeah, right. What I'm anticipating is a very bent rod and a flurry of filthy words that till make the ladies in the neighbor hood blush wildly and hurry their children indoors. From now on, gentlemen, make sure you mention the finer points of a task before making recommendations. <big smile> Let you know how it goes. Take care, Ed [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
