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Terre Linea..

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While I was er havin a pipe smoke by the old pottin shed I gotta thinkin. The wether as bin so dry of late that I recommend givin yer Terre Linea a good watterin. At least 2 gallons of good rain watter will do it much good. Otherwise yer may git a shock. It only goes down about 4 feet. It could be a sittin in jist dry sand. If the watterin can is leakin just give it a good piffin on. Just member to yurn orf the lecktricity first.

Old Z.

  • Have you considered peeing on it?

    A risk assessment may be advisable, particularly if the rod can be seen from next doors kitchen window. 

    Seriously, if the top of the rod is at ground level the first couple of feet isn’t really going to be much use due to freezing and drying, so your four foot rod is effectively only two foot long.

    I worked with an electrician who said he and his mate put an earth rod in for a small shed at the bottom end of Hartlebury Common by Stourport on Severn, the common is a sand heath and he said they went down around forty five feet before they got an acceptable test result, simply driving the rod in with a lump hammer. 

    I would not have thought a four foot rod is much use in your part of the country, I have installed twelve foot rods around where I live as we are on the second alluvial plain of the Severn Valley.

  • in reply to Sparkingchip

    God help all the caravaners then if rods are just held in dry sand around here.

    Z.

  • God help all the caravaners then if rods are just held in dry sand around here.

    Well, I suppose if the ground is that poor a conductor that the rod won't work, then the surface of the ground is going to be a pretty good insulator - so the risk of serious shock when stood on the ground, even barefoot, will be much reduced. Back to the old insulating environment approach that allowed Class I appliances to be used with unearthed sockets, that was quite popular even in Europe until relatively recently.

       - Andy.

  • How does one know if the rainwater to be used is "good" or not ? What happens if one uses bad rainwater, or even tap water.

  • in reply to broadgage

    "Good rain watter" is pure in spirit and does not offend the garden pixies or fairies. Bad rain watter can curse garden produce growth and offends the nose.

    Z.

  • in reply to Sparkingchip

    The Hartlebury Common story came to mind because I drove across the Common four times Saturday evening taking my wife to Stourport then picking her up again later, so not as random as it may seem.

  • in reply to AJJewsbury

    Now there's a fing. Praps we should site all caravans on gravel like that found in substations. It might hurt the bare footed though.

    Z.

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