Patent ID: 7303027

Claim:
A grounding rod driving system for driving and removing a grounding rod from a support surface, said system comprising: a sleeve slidably receiving the grounding rod, said sleeve sliding along the grounding rod when the grounding rod is being driven into the support surface; a driver being coupled to a top end of said sleeve, said driver impacting the grounding rod to drive the grounding rod into the support surface when the sleeve is slid downwardly onto the grounding rod; a flange being coupled to said sleeve opposite said driver, said flange being positioned orthogonal to said sleeve and radially extending from said sleeve; an extraction assembly being mountable to said sleeve and the grounding rod, said extraction assembly extracting the grounding rod from the support surface when said sleeve is thrust away from the grounding rod, said extraction assembly including: a sliding collar being slidably mountable to said sleeve, said sliding collar being positioned between said flange and said top end of said sleeve; a locking collar being removably mountable to the grounding rod; a plurality of tethers, each of said tethers being couplable to and extending between said sliding collar and said locking collar, said tethers transferring upward force applied to said sliding collar by said flange to said locking collar when said sleeve is thrust upwards to remove the grounding rod from the support surface.