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Device for Collecting Uncontaminated Soil Samples in Plastic Tubing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Oscar E. Schubert ,
LeRoy P. Stevens  and
Freddie L. Alt
Oscar E. Schubert
Affiliation:
Div. Plant and Soil Sci., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV 26506
LeRoy P. Stevens
Affiliation:
Div. Plant and Soil Sci., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV 26506
Freddie L. Alt
Affiliation:
Div. An. Sci., West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV 26506
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Abstract

A three-piece soil-sampling device was constructed to collect soil cores in polyvinyl chloride tubing to a depth of 92 cm with no or minimum contamination. The device with tube is driven into the soil with a hydraulic post-driver and removed with a chain attached to the bucket of a front-end loader on a tractor. Various depths can be sampled for analysis by cutting off proportionate sections of the tubing containing the soil core. This procedure is more rapid and poses less chance of contamination than by taking progressively deeper soil samples.

Keywords

Hydraulic post-driversampling pipepolyvinyl chloride plastic
Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , May 1983 , pp. 401 - 403
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 Weed Science Society of America 

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