The inside diameter of the socket is 7 8 making it difficult to control your sds max hammer drill when driving 5 8 ground rods.
Ground rod hammer drill bit.
The hammer drill or rotary hammer makes driving an 8 foot copper ground rod easy and fast.
These accessories feature fully hardened bodies.
Bosch says its designed to drive both 5 8 and 3 4 ground rods.
Make sure you put the drill in hammer only no rotary action and your are set to go.
I attached a video of my 13yr old son driving in a nec 250 52 a 5 ground rod showing how easy it is.
This can cause the top of the rod to mushroom thereby also making it difficult to place a standard 5 8 ground rod clamp.
Before it broke sure it worked fine and if you have never used a hammer drill and ground rod shank you are in for a treat on how easy they push rods in.
Normally i like dewalt stuff but this bit is simply a bad design.
Commercial grade bits are designed to break up and pare down a wide range of masonry materials including natural stone brick poured concrete and concrete block.
Sds plus coupling mates right up to my cordless hammer drill and is excellent for driving copper clad steel ground rods in the field.