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Spent 4 hours trying to get a clean soil sample from a waterlogged trench
The trick was using a turkey baster to slowly draw out the water first, something I only found in a 1987 field manual. Has anyone else found a better tool for saturated sediment?
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elizabethpalmer21d ago
Ruby494 has a point about the wide tip. But a cheap syringe seems like it would clog with silt or small gravel pretty fast. What do you do when the sediment is more than just mud?
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ruby49421d ago
Honestly that sounds like way too much work... a simple plastic syringe from the pharmacy works better and costs less than a dollar. The turkey baster tip is too wide for real precision anyway.
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