sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
I know it's been discussed on here before but to save searching through old threads what's the best advice for a proper earth?
Mains Electric Earth
- Thread starter sheepwise
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- Location
- The North
Buy earth rod from screw fix that all my main from yedl is basically, about 4 ft long batter it into ground has earth clamp on top
- Location
- North Wales
Crash barriers
clipex posts
8ft of galvanised box hammered in with a post knocker. Somewhere moist, or near a hose to keep it wet.
- Location
- West Wales
Crash barriers vertically driven into a spring, pond or river, whichever closest and never dries out.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Scaffold pole and sledge hammer. Weld a lug on the pole to bolt your cable to and drive it in as deep as you like.
This is what I use - they are threaded so you can join them together and also with a cap nut screw them in and out of the ground with a cordless drill
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Thought someone said on here before to bury an old galvanised gate or such like. That is what we were intending but was wondering about best way to attach earth cable, was thinking bolts.
Handy if its in a place that you can clean the connection if you need to, a steel bolt rather than a brass bolt and plenty of water,
- Location
- South Wales UK
PME positive mains earth.
Your electric distribution network provider should supply you with one possibly
Your electric distribution network provider should supply you with one possibly
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
We have a big old brass lorry radiator about 4.5m deep, and 6 x 5m lengths of 3-inch pipe.
It's close to an underground spring, but helped along by my rerouting the downpipe off the shed roof so it keeps the groundfield nice and damp most of the year.
The big "oof" is always how to join dissimilar metals without those surfaces then eating themselves, hence using stainless steel pipes salvaged from an old dairy
It's close to an underground spring, but helped along by my rerouting the downpipe off the shed roof so it keeps the groundfield nice and damp most of the year.
The big "oof" is always how to join dissimilar metals without those surfaces then eating themselves, hence using stainless steel pipes salvaged from an old dairy
- Location
- Hertfordshire
I’ve got an old roll of sheep netting sitting in the river, the earth wire is connected to this. It’s the perfect earth!
PostHarvest
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- Location
- Warwick
What you need to do to get a decent earth depends on the soil. My dad's old place was light soil on sandstone and it was almost impossible to get a decent earth. When the electricity supplier installed a new transformer they needed to drive about 30 earth rods linked by over 100 metres of copper strip to get an earth that was up to spec.