4' ft Foot Copper Coated Steel Ground Rod 3/8" For Electric Fences

Our old grounding rod was rusting out making it hard to get a good connection, so we bought a new one. This one is extremely pretty, thanks to its lovely copper cladding. It almost seemed a shame to drive it into the ground. It is also sturdy, so we could drive it into the ground nicely. It has a sharp point and is solid enough to crack small rocks when driven with an ordinary hammer. It has an easy to use connector, so we had the transformer grounded properly in no time. What a difference a proper ground makes. Yowch!All told, a positive review.P.S. We're using it as an electric fence transformer ground. It will probably work as an antenna ground and for other ground circuit uses, at least in moderately moist soil. I have no idea how it would work in dry conditions or used as a lightning ground.

This thing, connected to the 75 ohm antenna input of my television via a homemade coaxial balun, is a better HDTV antenna than the actual "HDTV Antenna" I purchased that was more expensive, with or without the latter's included amplifier. And that's just receiving! Considering its impressive current capacity I can imagine it may work equally well for transmitting but I am not appropriately licensed by the FCC to substantiate such a claim.Come to think of it, could probably use it as a simple ground plane antenna with the Earth as the ground plane and do away with the balun. Will test in the morning and report.

This is misrepresented. It is NOT a copper grounding rod, it is a steel rod with thin copper plating. So it may not be what you need if you need a reliable or permanent ground. Also the connection if funky. It is just a screw that clamps a bracket to the rod. No proper way to connect a grounding wire.For those like me who are using it as a temporary ground for remote radio/antenna operations, it is fine because you can file or sand off the rust when you see it build up as it will spend most of it's time out of the ground. For those who are using it for a permanent installation, it is not good. As the earth scrapes it when driving it into the ground it will scrape off the extremely thin copper coating. Then over time it will rust and rust is not a good conductor between the earth and the rod. So it will become a worse and worse ground over the months and years. This is why copper is used and why copper grounding rods are much thicker and more expensive. This much copper would not cost this little and the people who said it drove in without bending, well that is because it isn't copper, it is steel.If there still any disbelievers, attached is a photo of my new "copper grounding rod" with a cow magnet sticking top the side. Copper is non-ferrous so a magnet would not stick at all.

Very nice rod that was easy to drive into the ground. I was afraid it might bend but it did not. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to put in a smaller electric fence around a garden, or yard.

This is a rip off! Its a steel rod with a cheap copper tent paint on it. Could have bought a a steel rod at the feed store for 4$!

Perfect! I love that it’s hard steel inside. I was hoping it would not bend while pounding in, and it didn’t. I did have to flatten out the #6 copper wire at the end to make it fit but that was easy enough.

What can I say, the description fits the rod and useful for my OTA antenna ground wire.

Exactly as described, does exactly what it supposed to do — ground. A steel rod so you can pound it into the ground. And copper coated because electricity flows only on the surface of the conductor, not the interior.