Items needed by soil surveyors and field experimentalists (if you cant find it here - ask!)

1. Munsell colour books

2. Easily visible scales to  hang on a pit wall for depth indication

3. Evaporation pans : to measure evaporation rate

4. Tensiometers

5. TDR buriable probles

Munsel colour books: 

These are sourced from overseas so the price may vary a bit - around $250 incl GST.

We can also source the definitive work on soil physical methods in the field “ Methods of Soil Analysis Part 4 - Physical Methods (Soil Science Society of America) Ed J H Dane and G C Topp, - 1692 pages with every conceivable soil physics field method

Pit scales: A simple item but very hard to get

Price $30 GST incl

Evaporation Pan $950 with stillage well and filler cylinder

Tensiometers :   For measuring soil water tension in wet soils.  We sell the (Kovac) type which use a vacuum guage with a needle for measurement (you only need one of these ) Price $400 (reader) and tensiometers which you bury at strategic points in the soil (15cm long $20, 90cm long $35)

TDR buriable Probes These are a lower cost probe which is not so rugged as the official model  but perfectly servicable if treated gently Price $70 incl GST with 2m leads.  Ring for other lengths

Special We have 20 probes with mold defects (bubbles etc ) servicable but unlovely Price $50 Range of lead lengths